Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies

by Sol Stein

equally simple ways of concluding a flashback. You can use a line space (four blank lines) to mark the passage of time and restart the present scene after the line space. Or you can begin a new paragraph with “One week later…” Or you can restart the present scene with dialogue: “Last week you didn’t talk this way.”