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Reply Wed 8 Mar, 2006 10:38 pm
I am currently in the progress of a majorly sweet story, but I need a little advice. I am not exactly sure how to do flashbacks, would someone mind telling me; I mean as in diologue and point of view.
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Lash
 
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Reply Wed 8 Mar, 2006 11:33 pm
I've seen effective spacing-- the vignette set apart by different tabs...the reader knows something significant is happening--then a sentence ot two into the scene, there should be a sense of change of place or time. Do you have a snippet of the place in the story where the change should occur?

Like this. The regular part of the story is up there,
and the flashback is here on this type of Like this. The regular
part of the story is up there, and the flashback is here on this
type of


There are other ways that rely completely on writing skills. I'll try to help, but I'd need an idea of what you're writing.
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Drowned By Darkness
 
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Reply Wed 8 Mar, 2006 11:34 pm
No, but I know when I am going to put it in. I just wrote the basic part of the prologue, but I am writing it pretty fast. I might have it by tomarrow, but I am not sure.
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Lash
 
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Reply Thu 9 Mar, 2006 12:19 am
The spacing didn't work properly in my previous post.

The flashback was supposed to be indented about ten spaces...

If you want to e-mail it to me (if you don't want to show it on the web for copyright protection), I wouldn't mind. Otherwise, here is fine.

<Of course, I would have to e-mail it to Rog, as he is interested in the plot, as well. Smile >
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roger
 
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Reply Thu 9 Mar, 2006 12:22 am
Thanks, Lash, but I'm more interested in the finished product.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Thu 9 Mar, 2006 12:23 am
Lash, Spaces do not work on a2k. You must include dots or dashes to separate words or sentences. No matter how many spaces are made on composition, a2k will reduce it to one space.
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Lash
 
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Reply Thu 9 Mar, 2006 12:29 am
CI-- I should have remembered that. I've tried to do spacing before. Forgot.

OK, Rog.
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roger
 
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Reply Thu 9 Mar, 2006 12:34 am
Sometimes the use a couple of astrisks to note a passage of time from what's above to what's below. Might that work for a flashback?
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Thu 9 Mar, 2006 12:43 am
You can also consider italics or a softer grey font indented about one inch from the left margin.
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Drowned By Darkness
 
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Reply Thu 9 Mar, 2006 08:26 am
Alright, thanks cicerone.
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