: Re: Narrating something that happened between chapters as a flashback in a present-tense novel So say the novel is written in first-person tense. a chapter ends, and the next chapter starts 10 days

It's fine to use flashbacks, but you should make sure you're doing it for a reason, rather than "just to mix things up."

For instance, you could give us

day 1 (present, Character 1) -> day 10 (present, Character 1) -> day 5 (past, Character 2)

if you want to reveal Character 2's actions after you reveal how Character 1 reacted to the results of those actions (i.e. to build suspense), or if C1 and C2 aren't interacting and it's more streamlined to split their actions up. But don't just scramble your timeline to no purpose.

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