A flashback is a fully formed scene set in an earlier time. So it should be typeset like any other scene. In fact, in the flashback, you would not set the dialogue in italics. You'd put it in quotation marks, just as in any other scene.
How do you show flashbacks in writing?
4 Tips for Writing Flashbacks
- Use verb tense shifts to move between the flashback and main narrative. Whenever your narrative or characters recall a memory from a time before the story began, you have two choices. ...
- Keep them relevant. ...
- Sometimes the whole book is the flashback. ...
- Tell the present story first.
How do you format a flashback in a novel?
So if you need a flashback, it's simple: Write a sentence or two of transition, then do a scene break, then write the flashback, and then do another scene break.
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A flashback has three parts:
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A flashback has three parts:
- The segue out of the present and into the past.
- The backstory scene itself.
- The segue out of the backstory and into the present.
