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WRITING
Are flashbacks fizzling your fiction? | KRISTEN LAMB’S BLOG
Are flashbacks fizzling your fiction? | 
We need to broaden our understanding of the “flashback” because lumping every backwards shift in time under one umbrella won’t work.
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SCREENWRITING
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If a film or screenplay makes me loath but love, then empathise but hate the antagonist – all in one sitting – then a massive bravo to that screenwriter from yours truly (insert standing ovation here).
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You should join a writers group. Today.
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SELF-PUBLISHING
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