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Group: rec.arts.sf.composition · Group Profile
Author: Bill Swears
Date: May 16, 2008 17:54

Zeborah wrote:
>
> But actually I don't think that is a flashback really -- it retains the
> pluperfect throughout, and it's from Cazaril-now's pov, whereas I think
> for a flashback to be a flashback it has to go into the pov of the
> moment, which means that at some point it goes either into simple past
> or into present tense.
>

I don't think Catja wanted to talk about flashbacks, per se. I think she
wanted to talk about ways of introducing backstory.

Bill
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