Time Travel

What is the main reason authors should use flash backs and flash forwards? Can you think of some examples of this technique in books you have read? How about in your own writing? Before you comment on this post, take some time to find a great example to share in your comment. Please do not share an example that I have already shared in class. Look at your own writing, look in your library books, or look in books around the room. As you consider your example, think to yourself does this flash back or flash forward really help to create a strong emotional connection?

Emotional Connections

We are learning that strong emotional connections are what make personal narratives great. When a character's emotions or feelings change, we as readers become connected to the characters and to the story. Great authors understand this. They use this idea to make a boring old story into a very exciting personal narrative.

Think about this:
The best readers think like writers, and the best writers think like readers.

Do you agree or disagree? Why?

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