Thanks Andrew for your kind comments, your insights and some great ideas.
I am the first to admit that I'm not comfortable writing flashbacks and retrospective sequences, and I admire those who can.
You fired off some good ideas though and rather than avoiding these techniques in future I'm going to try using them. I'll never improve unless I push myself into tackling new (to me) techniques.
I'll leave these chapters as is, for two reasons:- (1)My first review from Snowman was encouraging and (2) I really need to move on with the book and take a break from YWO which can be time consuming and sometimes demotivating.
Thanks again for your encouragement. I only read your bio after your post - with that background you'll never run out of material.
I don't think the horse analogy was accurate though. The latest version was by far the best, but I looked at the original and I still enjoyed it - so I'd be walking through the first, jogging through the second and galloping through this one.