In Defence of Flashback

I know that some writers – and editors – view the use of flashback with some misgivings, objecting to it because the reader is made to look back at events which have already happened and therefore knows there is a positive outcome (your heroine is still alive and...

In Favour of Flashing

One of the challenges of writing a story is the question of where you start it.  In order to hook the reader’s attention, the received wisdom is that you open with a moment of drama, but that can leave you with the knotty problem of how to fill in the back...