Jordan Rosenfeld: Using Backstory and Flashback Scenes in Creative Nonfiction

Turns out your reader doesn’t need to know everything about the past to understand the present. Discover some surprisingly simple ways to transition timescapes and incorporate your “back” story with your “front” story. Jordan Rosenfeld talks with our host Carla King about why authors often overwrite or underwrite (or futz with verb tense). You’ll also learn about the old style memoir as essay versus the new style memoir as closer to commercial fiction. Hmmmm.