Memoir Techniques: Writing Flashback

All Levels | We’ll read examples from fiction and memoir, studying seamless narrative flashbacks and using them as guides to writing our own. We’ll talk about the purpose of flashbacks: how, when, where, and why delving into the past can move a story forward.

Check out the rest of the Memoir Techniques series:

Writing the Realization – 11/1

Writing Great Scenes – 11/8

Writing Great Dialogue – 11/15

Traveling through Time – 12/6

Writing the Things I Don’t Remember – 12/13