Writing, Wreading, and Wrestling with Words

Writing, Wreading, and Wrestling with Words

Let's geek out together about writing with more than one timeline.

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Susanne Dunlap
May 05, 2023
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I’m not sure exactly when I fell in love with dual/multi-timeline novels, or exactly why. I think it’s partly that I love the challenge of figuring out how the two timelines work with each other, and what will happen to bring them together in some way at the end. But I hadn’t seriously considered writing one myself. I mean, writing a novel with one time…

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