: Re: Techniques for creating a bridge between protagonists from different generations I'm working on a short novel that has two main stories. These stories belong to relatives from different generations,

If you're moving between timelines — one set of events happens in 1940 and one set happens in 1990 — the simplest way is to have one timeline per chapter and put the year (or detailed date) at the top of the chapter, either as a headline or a dateline in italics.

If you're doing the same thing inside a chapter, you need some kind of break (at least a few hard returns, if not some kind of dingbat) and then the dateline (June 1, 1940) before the text starts.

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