Flashbacks
Flashbacks are figments of past memories that leaves a long-lasting positive or most a times negative impression on a character.
This makes a character believe in a certain thing in a different way, hates some particular people, hates to be at some places, fear certain people or places etc.
Flashbacks should be used at that point when the reader will anticipate the reason why a particular character behaves the way he does.
It can be triggered by a dream, a fleeting thought, an object or a person.
Flashbacks should contain relevant information related to the story.
Flashbacks can be broken into bits. The writer can expose the past bit by bit at random in the story. This keeps me reader wanting to know more.
When overused, flashbacks can get readers confused.
Use sparingly.
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