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You may do it, you may not. Pulp Fiction didn't do it, neither Memento. When writing a small nonlinear section in my novel, I didn't do it. However, in all of those instances there are several thi...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T07:26:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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FFN
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2019-12-08T07:26:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
You may do it, you may not. Pulp Fiction didn't do it, neither Memento. When writing a small nonlinear section in my novel, I didn't do it. **However** , in all of those instances there are several things that might have inspired the author not to use scene cues. - In Pulp Fiction, there aren't many time jumps and, most of time, they are very self evident. - In Memento, (and in my novel) the movie is _intended_ to be confusing. I would say the need for scene cues should be based on how many time-jumps there are (scene cues get tiring quickly), if you want the story to be confusing and if the time jumps are linear or not (Scenes A, B and C happen in the chronological order ABC, but are presented in the order BAC).
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-11-26T12:15:41Z (almost 7 years ago)
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