In an article for Writer’s Digest, Robin Lee Hatcher offers advice on writing multi-generational fiction. “Different methods may be used to tell dual-time stories (alternating narrative, diaries, letters), but the reason to write about different generations is usually to mirror and/or contrast the choices made by those characters,” Hatcher says. “While circumstances in the past may have been different—perhaps no television or automobiles, different styles of dress, differences in speech, etc.—people remain fundamentally the same.”
Hatcher shares the process she used when writing her novel, I’ll Be Seeing You, as well as lessons she learned.
