Is there a name for what I'm trying to work on. A woman presented with a very bad situation (which we don't learn till much later) remembering all the incidents and events of the past 20 years that led to this, as she's waiting for coffee) but unexpected events near the end, just outside the coffee shop, make her present day a complete …
Is there a name for what I'm trying to work on. A woman presented with a very bad situation (which we don't learn till much later) remembering all the incidents and events of the past 20 years that led to this, as she's waiting for coffee) but unexpected events near the end, just outside the coffee shop, make her present day a complete narrative as well as the flashback stories. The story from the past has a conclusion near the end, but then an encounter outside the coffee shop provides another conclusion beyond the first one.
Asking only because if such a flashbacky device has a specific name, I can look at other stories that employ it, or analyses of it.
Is there a name for what I'm trying to work on. A woman presented with a very bad situation (which we don't learn till much later) remembering all the incidents and events of the past 20 years that led to this, as she's waiting for coffee) but unexpected events near the end, just outside the coffee shop, make her present day a complete narrative as well as the flashback stories. The story from the past has a conclusion near the end, but then an encounter outside the coffee shop provides another conclusion beyond the first one.
Asking only because if such a flashbacky device has a specific name, I can look at other stories that employ it, or analyses of it.