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 Using Flashbacks Effectively for Stronger Storytelling

with Thurber House instructor, Lisa Lopez Snyder

2025-04-16 18:00:00 2025-04-16 19:30:00 America/New_York  Using Flashbacks Effectively for Stronger Storytelling Tremont Road Branch - Meeting Room B

Wednesday, April 16
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-04-16 18:00:00 2025-04-16 19:30:00 America/New_York  Using Flashbacks Effectively for Stronger Storytelling Flashbacks—key scenes in a character’s backstory—can give your characters and your story dimension, whether you’re writing memoir or fiction. In this program, you'll learn how to use them effectively. Tremont Road Branch - Meeting Room B

Tremont Road Branch

Meeting Room B

Flashbacks—key scenes in a character’s backstory—can give your characters and your story dimension, whether you’re writing memoir or fiction. In this program, you'll learn how to use them effectively.

In this session, we’ll explore when to use and not to use flashbacks, we’ll learn how to create seamless transitions between the current story and the flashback, and we’ll discuss where to best place a flashback in your story. We’ll also explore tension, pacing and insight. This session is for writers at all levels. Come prepared to write and add some sparkle to your story!

Instructor, Lisa Lopez Snyder, is an essayist and short story writer. Her pieces have been featured in 34th Parallel, Adelaide, The Raleigh Review, The Summerset Review, The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, and other publications. Her essay, “In Transit,” won The Chattahoochee Review’s 2011 Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction and she was named the 2015 Carl Sandburg Writer-in-Residence. She received her MFA in creative writing at the University of South Carolina and went on to teach first-year writing at Dartmouth College. She is currently working on a memoir-in-essays about being a paper girl in Huber Heights, Ohio.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Writing |

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