Comments on: The Art of the Flashback https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 02 Feb 2025 06:32:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Links To Blog Posts on Writing – August 2015 | Anna Butler https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/#comment-92893 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 06:05:45 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20785#comment-92893 […] The Art of The Flashback – Love ‘em or hate ‘em, flashbacks are in the arsenal and there to be used when your story needs them. Sierra Godfrey at Writers In The Storm, on controlling pacing etc when utilising them. […]

]]> By: Jon Flick https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/#comment-90280 Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:19:12 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20785#comment-90280 Flashbacks are my friend but that will happen when you go to school so long ago that Led Zeppelin was still onstage. And when you write a memoir called 'The Bogus Buzz.' In fact flashback to the 1960's and 1970's and faster than you can say 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' accompany me as I am drilled by Domincan nuns, enlightened by a hippie father and loved by a grandmother who easily forgave my sins.
Essentially about five boys that escape the constraints of Catholicism and partake of the forbidden fruit of the era. Some of my buddies didn't survive, casualties of breaking such bread.

]]> By: LauraDrake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/#comment-90265 Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:17:20 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20785#comment-90265 In reply to densielwebb.

I agree, Densie. Water for Elephants was a brilliant book! The beginning did throw me at first, but I went happily along, totally forgetting it (as I was meant to) until the end. Just brilliant.

]]> By: genxatmidlife https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/#comment-90229 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 20:42:44 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20785#comment-90229 I'm working on a long fiction piece, avoiding backstory because I wasn't quite sure how to handle it. After too many requests to know more about how my main character's past influences her present, I am jumping in on backstory. Great to have to have some tips from this post!

]]> By: Orly Konig-Lopez https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/#comment-90223 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:41:13 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20785#comment-90223 I love the rest area pit stop approach to flashbacks. Great post, Sierra!

]]> By: Phoebe Fox https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/#comment-90220 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:22:55 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20785#comment-90220 Great topical post!

]]> By: Sierra Godfrey https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/#comment-90217 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:08:39 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20785#comment-90217 In reply to Nina.

I'm so glad Nina!!

]]> By: Sierra Godfrey https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/#comment-90214 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:08:23 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20785#comment-90214 In reply to Normandie Fischer (@WritingOnBoard).

Great idea to file them away if they don't work out...you never know, that could be material for the future "out takes" on your website 🙂

]]> By: Sierra Godfrey https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/#comment-90211 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:07:37 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20785#comment-90211 In reply to Laura Drake.

What a fantastic bunch of advice, Laura. A ceramic Mexican plate, indeed -- fantastic visual. And I love that single line of flashback.

]]> By: Sierra Godfrey https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/07/the-art-of-the-flashback/#comment-90208 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:06:35 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=20785#comment-90208 In reply to Holly Robinson.

Hi Holly! But if they work, they work....don't remove them until you're done with the manuscript, that's my advice.

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