How to make your novel's flashbacks feel seamless, not sudden

Flashbacks, like many literary devices, can be powerful when done right, but jarring and awkward when executed poorly.

Editor Tiffany Yates Martin is here to help your flashbacks fall into the former category, not the latter.

She shares seven main components of a well-integrated flashback, whether it's a piece of a scene or its own scene entirely, in a post for Jane Friedman's blog.

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