#TimeTravelAuthors 3: Deleted?

Too many sentences to count, in edits. A lot of them superfluous, or technical stuff that didn't add anything to the story.

Entire scenes are rarely cut, if anything I tend to add new ones to improve the pacing. One exception was a side story I wrote, which I later decided to fit into the main narrative instead. It was too long (compared to other parts), so both a Luci/Tim and Luci/Chartreuse scene got deleted.

#TimeTravelAuthors Aug 1: Out of time?

Carrie can walk through time the way we walk down the street. Or she could, until an assassin with similar powers came after her when she started university.

Now her roommate is in trouble and her love life is a mess, plus she has to learn the identity of the assassin before she's out of time.

#TimeTravelAuthors 29: Masks?

No literal masks occur; Sherlock plays around with disguises but of the makeup and wig variety. There is a figure near the start in a cowl who is likely masked underneath as they're trying to hide their identity, but nothing is explicitly stated. (Maybe I should state something.)

#TimeTravelAuthors 27: Write in anyone you know?

As an actual character? No. (Not consciously, at least.) But I've occasionally used names as Easter Eggs.

For instance, the principal of the original story, Del Hunt, comes from my beta and long time friend. Little things like that. (Again, name only, no personality relevance.)

26: Poll results

Honestly surprised most were around 50%, I'd expect that from followers given my time travel bent but not necessarily the tag #ScribesAndMakers

"A Wrinkle in Time" doesn't have much time travel (they do arrive right after they left). There is a young female protagonist and the science of 4D tesseracts to find a missing parent, perhaps a subconscious basis for Carrie in #TimeTravelAuthors

Don't recall much else, but it was the first book in a key series I read in my youth.

I saw linked post & I'm considering participating. Strictly speaking the story I'm developing is not time travel. But also it is. I am employing "frozen life in stasis tube traveling across the universe" conceit to achieve what other stories do with starships or time travel. The motivation of my story is to describe 3 versions of the Earth societies that we know: now, a worse future, & a better future. Is it time travel?

https://mastodon.social/@juliebihn/114906765161763973

#TimeTravelAuthors 25: Jewellery/Fashion?

I have no sense of fashion, often forgetting to describe what characters are wearing. It's urban fantasy, so no period specific costumes either.

That said, Carrie does end up with a pendant, a small green crystal, modified (by Heather) to contain a temporal reserve for her time powers. A small LED pin plays a role at one point also.

#ScribesAndMakers 25: A poll, which 3 "classic" books have you read?

I am really not a classics guy. So we're going with which *time travel themed* classic books have you read.

Aside: If you like these, they have been big influences on my serial writing. We've got one from 1895, one from 1962, and one from 1987. (Edited to tag #TimeTravelAuthors - to perhaps skew results?)

Snoopy Writes Manga

#Wss366 #Mastoprompt #TimeTravelAuthors

[Start word bubble]
Peppermint Patty #rushed into the lab and opened the time-gate. Then, waited impatiently for the #squall of potential futures to subside. She jumped through as the time-stream became diamond hard.
[End word bubble]

Snoopy looked at the page and nodded in approval.

#TimeTravelAuthors 23: water? when the MC's last name is Waterson, uhh...

*
That’s when she felt it return. Almost. It was like the key to the temporal river had been placed back in her palm, only to turn to water and trickle through her fingers as she tried to close her hand. For a moment, Carrie tried to force it back, but with that, she only felt her time senses numb completely again.

Damn it.

#TimeTravelAuthors 21: In past, change anything about works?

That's a tough one, because every time I repost, I make adjustments. I don't think changes 10 years ago would stop that.

I sometimes wonder if I should have posted it earlier, when serials were still getting big... but maybe it'd make no difference and I'd have been too disillusioned then to be doing the sequel. Or to have found this tag!

Best answer: I'd have changed Corry's name to Tori from the start.

#TimeTravelAuthors 19: "line"

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Chartreuse sighed. “What if Cloaky can do what he does because he’s our son?”

Carrie felt a chill run up her spine. “In that case, we simply don’t have kids, problem solved.”

Chartreuse rolled her eyes up to the ceiling. “Carrie, I want kids some day. It’s even kind of, like, expected, as I’m the oldest in my family. Mystic line and all that.”

“Wait. So you’re planning on raising a son who wants to kill me.”

“NO. Damn it, stop twisting my words.”

#TimeTravelAuthors 17: Project status?

"Time Untied" is presently spread across 16 files with 300k words. When I last added to it around 16 months ago, I was approaching the climax. I decided this July I would reread from the start with minor edits, and I'm about halfway through, in part because some edits have been less minor.

Meanwhile, "Time & Tied" the original is getting posted to AO3 weekly. We're at part 12 of 96 with minor edits there too. It's not totally stalled, I guess?

#TimeTravelAuthors 15: How serious from 1-10?

Let's go with 7. Most of the time it's university students fumbling around, but there is an assassin, and at times more serious issues of relationships and death (in much the way parental abuse cropped up in the original story).