Help?

[unrvld_wrds]

So, this is my first time ever doing this, and so far it's going great. It's just, I feel like my story is lacking something. It's about a young girl named Sophia who is a ballerina. When she walks home, she meets a young girl named Hayden. Hayden is homeless and Sophia, feeling bad for the girl, invites her to stay in her house. Sophia then learns

Comments

[marycatelli]

Depends on what you want to do.

If there are intertwining plots involving Travis, or the information would cause dramatic irony and you want it to, or Travis's actions will cause a lot of effect on Sophia's story, or if Hayden's flashbacks would add information about what's going on and you want to reveal it now, -- sure.

On the whole, however, I think I have to warn you that flashbacks are usually a good way to drain tension. If the information is relevant, there's usually a way to bring it up in the course of the story; if not, it doesn't really belong.