[Giovanna Clairval]

Originally Posted by Flag Pole Sitta

But if you're a good writer you can get away with anything, look at James Joyce.

*sighs*

This is so true...

The idea of putting flashbacks into ad hoc chapters is not such hard a thing to implement.


I think that what helps is finding a thread (a detail, a theme) that links to the main storyline. That's what I did when I had enourmus chunks of story situated a long time before, these chunks being necessary to understand the main story.