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Describe some of the techniques that a writer can use to manipulate time in a flash fiction story.

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Often used to describe in great detail objects/setting/characters, or explore a particular character's emotions/feelings (primarily the narrator in this text) The story events continue but there is no narrative to accompany them. Typically this manifests in 'time skips'.

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Here are six ways that writers work around the clock to tame time in their stories.

Time Markers. In a linear narrative, the author is obligated to move in a single direction when it comes to time: straightforward. ...

Multiple Timelines, also Flashback, and also Reverse Chronology, and Chapter Length, last Groundhog Day.

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