Reminiscence? I don't know, if you don't want to use non sequiturs then I don't think I want to read your book.

I don't want the character to be aware of the flashback. It is supposed to be something they had forgotten about, so it develops their character to show the reader what they were like in the past, and that makes their current actions significant.

Fuck it, ill just personify some inanimate objects, or small animals, and have them remember.

Do what they did in Wilfred, flashbacks to memorories where a lot of the things were noticed were simply foregrounds ot the creepy stuff.

Just write it and put it in there, present tense. That's normal for flashbacks. You don't have to have a "device". The writing just flashes back.

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I think that's part of the problem, I see some pretty ballza narrative techniques on the telly, but it is altogether different to show than to tell. I feel like I've been given a good seasoning on plot and character development, just need to brush up to get my spandrels in order.

>>803

But, then you can't do that thing where you trick the viewer into thinking past events are present events, until the shoe drops and you see a chronological landmark.