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Flashing The Reader A practical guide to clearly managing transitions of time, place, and viewpoint in fiction
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Flashing The Reader A practical guide to clearly managing transitions of time, place, and viewpoint in fiction

JRM, The Writer’s Craft

Flashing The Reader A practical guide to clearly managing transitions of time, place, and viewpoint in fiction

TRICKY TRANSITIONS

Few works of fiction relate events in a continuous flow, from start to finish. Sometimes the story moves back in time (as with flashbacks); more often it jumps forward, sparing the reader the dull details of ordinary life. Frequently, the transition will take the reader from one location (and set of characters) […]

By John Robert Marlow|2022-09-20T15:48:57+00:00|JRM, The Writer’s Craft|Comments Off

South of Hell by P.J. Parrish A “First 50” Review
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South of Hell by P.J. Parrish A “First 50” Review

First 50, Mystery / Suspense, RSB, The Writer’s Craft

South of Hell by P.J. Parrish A “First 50” Review

[by Ross Browne]

Flap Copy: For Louis Kincaid and his lover, female detective Joe Frye, the present and the past collide when they team up to find out what happened to Jean Brandt, who was reported missing by her husband from their Michigan farmhouse in 1981. Jean’s daughter Amy, only five at the time, has been plagued by […]

By Ross Browne|2022-02-15T20:33:22+00:00|First 50, Mystery / Suspense, RSB, The Writer’s Craft|Comments Off