create tension
siddhartha guatama
Juliet had a flashback of all the things she did with Romeo, just before she was about to shoot herself.
In chapter 5, Siddhartha says, "Your mouth is like a freshly cut fig, Kamala."
he used to be a prince before he was buddha
A flashback is a literary device used to interrupt the present timeline and take the reader to a past event or memory.
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It really depends on the length of your flashback (e.g. a paragraph vs a few pages) and the tense used in the rest of your story. However, it's common for the past tense to be used.
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I just had a flashback on the day i fell into 100 bucks or that flashback was bad or haha ha i just had a flashback