An Author's Life for Me: A Reader's Guide to Author's Jargon 16

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

A Reader's Guide to Author's Jargon 16

Slipping and Sliding flash-back a scene set out of sequence in the past. flash-foward a scene set out of sequence in the future. slip-back a section that suddenly thrusts the reader into the back-story, sometimes for a paragraph and sometimes for a longer stretch. (In Stephen King's Wizard and... Sign in to see full entry.

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