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Sketch out your entire timeline before you write your story. Have an idea of what happened before and after. Your book takes place in medias res, in the middle of things. If you decide what your en...
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2019-12-13T12:00:11Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T02:28:50Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
Sketch out your entire timeline before you write your story. Have an idea of what happened before and after. Your book takes place _in medias res,_ in the middle of things. If you decide what your entire history is, then you won't develop conflicts in your flashbacks and you won't step on the future, because you'll already have a linear series of events to refer to.
#1: Imported from external source
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2012-08-04T00:38:19Z (over 12 years ago)
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