Patricia Wrede

In other words, in fantasy fiction, you get to make the rules for how the world works, but once you’ve made them, you have to follow them or you’ll lose a large chunk of your readers.

In other words, in fantasy fiction, you get to make the rules for how the world works, but once you’ve made them, you have to follow them or you’ll lose a large chunk of your readers.

flashbacks are a way of conveying some background/backstory information as if it were happening “now.”