: Question about longer chapter length flashbacks I'm working on a novel. The POV never leaves my main character (third person point of view.) Throughout the story he is given hints at a past

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I'm working on a novel. The POV never leaves my main character (third person point of view.) Throughout the story he is given hints at a past life so to say. In reality the man has been alive since the dawn of man kind. Every time his life would end, he forgets his past and starts a new one.

So in order for the story to conclude and the main plot point to be reached, he needs to remember at least one life and possibly a second. To do that i wanted to have him literally go into the memory so the reader learns everything at the same time as he does.

So my question is, is that still considered a flashback? (Worried about losing the reader in one that could take up chapters rather then paragraphs.)

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I think the important question is not whether this qualifies as a "flashback" by some technical definition, but rather whether you make it clear to the reader what is going on.

I've occasionally read books where there was a flashback and I was well into it before I realized it was a flashback. I started getting confused, saying to myself, "Wait, I thought the hero already knew this, did he forget?" Or, "What happened to his friend Bob? Why isn't he helping?" Or whatever, before I finally figured out, "Oh!!! This is a flashback to BEFORE the last chapter!"

As long as you make it clear that the chapter is the hero's previous life or whatever, whether this is technically a flashback or something else doesn't really matter.

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