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"content": "<p>I workshop/critique a lot of stories, and one thing I keep seeing crop up is this: a story begins in present tense before suddenly dipping into a flashback, and then flashbacks happen within those flashbacks until as a reader, I become completely unmoored temporally and no longer know what's going on. All these flashbacks are often accompanied by a whole bunch of names and places when I'm still trying to figure out who the protagonist is. </p><p>I find this makes a story really drag, and makes me struggle as a reader until I want to throw in the towel. </p><p>Sometimes it doesn't come back to present tense for chapters and chapters, and then when it does, it's in a different setting than the beginning of the story. </p><p>My suggestion is to avoid this sort of scenario, at least at the onset of a story. Let people become acquainted with a small group of characters before throwing in a whole pile of other characters. </p><p>There are exceptions to everything, of course. If you can make it work, good for you. <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Writing\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/WritingCommunity\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/flashback\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>flashback</span></a></p>",
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