ASK MIMI #7: Writing Multiple Time Periods? Here are Some Tips!

Hello, my fellow readers and writers! This question comes from Susan Manson. It’s also about craft, but I hope readers will also find it interesting!

Mimi,
I have my own series of books that I have a story outlined for characters from different generations & four overlapping planes of existence. How would you set up the very important past events?

Dear Susan,
This is an easy question to answer. It’s up to you! You have to decide where the reader needs to go, when to introduce past elem...