Flashback and work its way forward

[Kitkat103]

Okay so i was digging through my unfinished stories folder and I found one with only three sentences. I want the story to flashback to establish how they wound up where they are at the moment. So do I separate the current scenario with a ***** Before I start the "beginning?"

 

[roomfor1more]

I feel you do not need **** to indicate a flashback. Instead you could use, what I term marker words, such as:

1) Remembering

2) Looking back / forward

3) Recalling

4) Today

5) Yesterday

6) Last Year

7) Time given in hour:minutes, days, weeks, years

8) Dream state

9) Daze

10) Returning

11) Back

12) Forward

Using them can help you switch between the flashback and the present.

 

[Kitkat103]

Thanks alot!

I actually used this instead:

....as I try to figure out what the fuck just happened tonight. Yesterday I was excited to own my own business and today I feel his seed leaking into...

 

[Penelope Street]

I want the story to flashback to establish how they wound up where they are at the moment. So do I separate the current scenario with a ***** Before I start the "beginning?"

I think that would work just fine. If you can manage a smooth transition, nothing at all might work too.

The tense of the highlighted text above suggests another option to me; if your introduction isn't too long, you could start with present tense and then shift to past tense for the flashback, then perhaps return to present tense if you intend a retrospective conclusion.