Use of Flashbacks for Main Plot

[Edoc'sil]

That is the "end" but it's not the climactic finale. The "end" I am assuming is what caused him to become Kvothe. Although I could see the story being continued from his older perspective.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Spoiler: Water for elephants

a really good eg of a frame story the frame is an old mans story who has been abandoned by his family and who watches the circus that they had promised to take him to arriving. He recalls his young days working at a circus and that is the main story which is very exciting and dramatic and is resolved. But after that resolution we return to the frame and find him leaving his residential home and signing up to leave town with the circus. It draws both stories together and is only made sense of by knowing both the picture and the frame.

That is the "end" but it's not the climactic finale. The "end" I am assuming is what caused him to become Kvothe. Although I could see the story being continued from his older perspective.

But in a frame story the part where we find out how he becomes Kote would not be the end of the book - the frame should have its own (often twist) ending that comes after the climatic one.

 

[Edoc'sil]

Yeah that makes sense, just realised I got the names mixed up as well.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Yeah that makes sense, just realised I got the names mixed up as well.

It’s like talking in tongue twisters!

 

[DLCroix]

Hi, Wayne Mack, it's just my opinion, but I think you should also differentiate between mimesis and diegesis, because in either of the two approaches you can freely use flashbacks or racconts. For me, this resource is more useful when you need to explain something that happened before the narrative timeline or it is information that may be within it but is known to a witness, for example, not one of the characters.
Another resource to make it clearer to the reader is to write in the present tense, which gives you both options for something recent or something very past, which could be closer to a flashback. A classic, short and easy-to-understand example is Five Orange Nuggets by Conan Doyle.

 

[Boneman]

Well, it works for Patrick Rothfuss...