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I’ve done both good and bad flashbacks. The bad one is why I split up my first original story, because I was using them to cover backstory that was better to split off to other stories (ie, I was confusing myself). The good is a quick flash “forward” of a future suspense point (ie Voldemort exclaiming the potion in his cup is the “Elixir of Immortality”) with a “two years earlier….” as the fast move back in time point. Which ever way it’s done, flash-forward or flash-backward, that scene should be kept relatively short. If it needs to span chapters, then consider a separate backstory, and snippets for the flash back itself.

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Spotted this on AO3’s reddit, an alignment chart for work titles, maybe it’ll help? Link to post (to credit the artist) https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/16plpw3/i_made_an_alignment_chart_for_ao3_work_titles/

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42704 Gives me hope of actually being able to … gasp … FINISH the thing (still years away)

42702 Well, the progress on my story is freaking awesome… 98k so far this month.

42700 and it’s worse for me, gotten into a habit of really early rises, so I’m already up, writing before work.

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Finish? That’s heresy… 🤪 More seriously, been trying to focus on finishing things too, so far resisting the urge to start new stories. Do need to consider if I want to break my writing streak to write up a Halloween story or not.

The long hiatus is something that happened with my potter fanfic. For about a dozen years, no updates, then all the alerts started to flare up, I’m sure, people going “wait, I alerted on that?”.