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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/12266
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Is it acceptable for a writer to jump back in time for a whole chapter?

I don't mean a flashback, I mean more like, for example, chapter 5 happening in 25/06/2014 and then the next (Chapter 6) happening in 24/06/2014? I would be using this to explain how certain thing came to pass, example, army 1 is fighting army 2 and currently losing, and then all of the sudden army 3 arrives and saves the day, but noone knows how or why army 3 arrived, so in the next chapter I go back in time to explain how army 3 got there.

And sometimes I would go even further back, example, chapter 7 being in 26/06/2014 and then chapter 8 in 12/09/1932, because something happened in 1932 that is now going to affect events in 2014 heavily.

**Would this be an acceptable thing to do? And if the books kept jumping in time every chapter** (of course stating the date at the beggining) **Would it still be acceptable?**

Original score: 3