: Re: Time flips / thinking about past too often In my story so far, in this chapter labeled "Longing", there are some time flips, where it begins in the present and then goes way into the past,

When you use flashbacks, be sure that it is clear to the reader that this is a flashback. I recall a book I read once that started in, let's call it the "present", and then there were several chapters that were one long flashback that. If the author said anything to indicate this was all flashback, I missed it, so I was assuming that chapter 2 and following happened after chapter 1 rather than before, and it got very confusing. In chapter 1 the author said this conflict was resolved, but now in chapter 4 it's still going on. Did it restart? Was the resolution from chapter 1 not complete? When I got to a point where I realized that a statement in a later chapter was what the speaker in chapter 1 was referring to when she said "I remember when ...", I finally realized that this was all a flashback.

My point being, as the author, yes, YOU know that event X happened 10 years ago while event Y happened yesterday. But is that clear to your reader, or are they losing track of what happened when with the flashbacks and flash forwards? In a good story, you want the reader to wonder what happens next. They shouldn't be wondering what is happening now.

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