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Flashbacks and dreams place us in the mind of the character who is relating them.
This causes us to identify with that character, drawing us into their story. Unless that character is our main character, though, our empathy will be split, and the dramatic force of the narrative weakened.
Flashbacks interrupt the narrative flow.
Consequently, they should be used only when it is not possible to tell the story chronologically. Don’t use a flashback to merely to illustrate what a characters is relating verbally. It is often more effective to remain focused on the character who is recalling a particular event, so as to gauge what that memory
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