Literary Time Manipulation Craft
Control when the reader knows what.
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- check_circleWrite the scene using present and past simultaneously where the analepsis reveals why the present moment has the weight the prose has given it
- check_circleCraft the summary passage where ellipsis over years is done in a paragraph that feels like the right amount of time for the reader to feel the skip
- check_circleWrite the proleptic passage where the narrator reveals the ending of a smaller event that makes the continuation of the larger story more rather than less tense
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