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Some stories tell well from beginning to end, all in a neat little line...and some don't. When can a story be improved by using a different order in the telling? Off the top of my head, I'd say...
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System
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2019-12-08T00:47:36Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/459 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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HedgeMage
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2019-12-08T00:47:36Z (over 4 years ago)
Some stories tell well from beginning to end, all in a neat little line...and some don't. When can a story be improved by using a different order in the telling? * * * Off the top of my head, I'd say flashbacks are great when something doesn't make sense out of the context of what is happening _now_ in the story, or when something that happened long ago (before the story's timeline begins) is important to the story. Also, in a project I'm working on, the story begins at a point where it is _very_ hard to introduce the characters well, so I started at a point after that, then transitioned to a flashback on how they got to that point. It _seems_ to be working out well.
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System
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2010-11-23T22:46:50Z (over 13 years ago)
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