#just came across this in a nonfiction memoir which is extra weird
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if you interrupt a scene with backstory I promise it's okay to just get back to the scene you don't need to do a "the MC shook himself out of recalling everything that had happened to him in chronological order and returned to his current task of cutting a man's head open" I swear it's fiiiiine
#just came across this in a nonfiction memoir which is extra weird#lit#writing#I mean this is exaggerated obviously & a mid-neurosurgery exposition break might not be the best place for it anyway. but often it would be#fine if you just didn't make the character stop to remember with us
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