This sounds like it would be a fascinating (and perhaps more importantly, practically relevant) case study!

This is awesome! I’ve wanted something like this for years. Thank you for sharing this guide!

I’m stoked to see what comes of this! So cool that you took the initiative to set this up!

For flashbacks, I prefer to treating as a separate scene… IF I know what the flashback will be about.

If I’m writing and suddenly the character starts having a flashback, I just hang on for the ride and see when it feels right to bring the character out of the flashback and back to the present.

For internal monologue, I tend to feel it out as I’m writing and look for a “safe place to land” (e.g., once the character’s inner monologue concludes).

That said, I don’t tend towards lengthy inner monologues (yet)… usually a sentence or three at most.

Adjacent notion: “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no human can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reminds me of Morgan Housel’s essay on “Selfish Writing” collabfund.com/blog/selfish...