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Sorry it's in pic form, but I had already made this and was too lazy to type it out..

https://www.awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_chronicle_view/1731/from_long_shots_to_x-rays_distance_point_of_view_in_fiction_writing I first read this essay years ago in a book called Alone With All That Could Happen by David Jauss, which has since been republished under the title On...

What William Faulkner famously did in The Sound and the Fury is just start writing the flashback in the next paragrah (he did it even in the same paragraph), but put it in italics. It's hard to give advice without some example text to go on.

Caution with The Elements of Style. It has some incorrect stuff in it, like the section on passive voice: three of the four examples given are NOT passive voice! Also it can just be kinda unhelpful like when it says: Omit needless words. Well, yeah, duh. But how to know which are needless?! So...

When it comes to books about writing, I can't recommend enough The Making of a Story by Alice LaPlante. It's by far the best book I have read on the nuts and bolts of technique used in writing fiction and creative nonfiction. There are also stories and essays that illustrate the techniques...