Flashbacks
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kristen999I've been pondering something and while the annoying goat only allows tiny posts, I thought I'd throw my question out to those who are riding the crazy LJ train.
My next Hawaii Five-O story is going to contain a number of flashbacks. Some will be short while others will be a few pages long. I have a love hate relationship with flashbacks, but they are really necessary.
My questions is this.
With the longer flashbacks, should I keep them all in italics or should I do the whole date and location thing at the beginning of each one?
Is one less jarring or more helpful than the other?
Thoughts?
EDIT
I'm going with a date and location for the long passages of flashbacks.
Thanks to everyone for their input and thoughts!
My next Hawaii Five-O story is going to contain a number of flashbacks. Some will be short while others will be a few pages long. I have a love hate relationship with flashbacks, but they are really necessary.
My questions is this.
With the longer flashbacks, should I keep them all in italics or should I do the whole date and location thing at the beginning of each one?
Is one less jarring or more helpful than the other?
Thoughts?
EDIT
I'm going with a date and location for the long passages of flashbacks.
Thanks to everyone for their input and thoughts!
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Date: 2011-07-30 12:03 am (UTC)I find italics can be a bit hard on the eyes, especially if there's a large chunk of text, and just from a formatting point of view i think the date and location looks much better.
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Date: 2011-07-30 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-30 12:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-30 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-30 12:06 am (UTC)Just my thought of course.
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Date: 2011-07-30 12:11 am (UTC)Would that be jarring?
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Date: 2011-07-30 12:13 am (UTC)>:-)
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Date: 2011-07-30 12:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-30 12:22 am (UTC)Thanks for the input!
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Date: 2011-07-30 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-30 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-30 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-30 12:53 am (UTC)I am so stoked to write this!! I had all those trains, planes and long waits in between to flesh this out.
And I owe you a big hug for poking my muse in this direction!!
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Date: 2011-07-30 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-30 01:10 am (UTC)If you want to set the flashbacks of a bit, you could always block them with narrower margins on both sides.
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Date: 2011-07-31 03:14 am (UTC)Kimber