{"id":8293,"date":"2019-07-15T08:21:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2019-07-15T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:22:56","slug":"flashbacks-prompt-433","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/flashbacks-prompt-433\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashbacks . . . Prompt #433"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A flashback is a scene set in a time earlier than the main\nstory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes when you are telling a story, or writing a story,\nyou need to backtrack and tell what happened previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A flashback is a shift\nin a narrative to an earlier event that interrupts the normal chronological\ndevelopment of a story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Make a Scene<\/em> by Jordan Rosenfeld: \u201cWith flashback, you want to\nfocus on action, information, and character interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flashback can\nalso be thought of as backstory.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use flashbacks to explain, enlighten, and inform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An example is What We\nKeep<\/em> by Elizabeth Berg. The story takes place during a woman\u2019s travels to\nmeet her sister and mother. We learn what happened thirty-five years prior\nthrough flashbacks while the woman travels in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other examples of using flashback to tell a story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>:\nThe whole story\nis a flashback told by Scout a few years after the scenes take place. The first\nsentence of the book indicates the timeframe. “When he was nearly\nthirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saving Private Ryan<\/em>: The movie starts out with an elderly man walking in a cemetery in Normandy. He then has a flashback of WWII. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titanic <\/em>is told from an elderly lady’s point of view. We move from present time of her telling the story and the resurrection of the ship to what happened years previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think for a moment about a movie or story you have read\nwhere flashbacks are used to tell a story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to\nincorporate flashbacks into your writing: Use past tense. \u201cShe revealed\n. . .\u201d     \u201cWe had just gone to . . .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prompt:<\/strong> What is the\nmost fearless thing you have done?  But .\n. . here’s the twist. . . start your story in the present time period. Then, go\nback in time to tell what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example: Today, I’m afraid of\nspiders because of the time . . .  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OR:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know I can accomplish such and\nsuch because when I was . . .  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go for it! Just write!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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