#TimeTravelAuthors

h2lift_SciFiLooks like I hit 40k on my <a href="https://twit.social/tags/WIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WIP</a> I can see the end of the story in another 20k or so. The working title is "TimeSlinky'" where José breaks through the TimeWall to see...himself, as grey one dimensional shadows going back in Time. Unfortunately, his Shadows are not happy to see him and their may be monsters to worry about. <a href="https://twit.social/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a>

WarmasterPalak<a href="https://meow.social/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 13 July: Most famous person in your story?Arguably, Warmaster Palak is the most well known. Where he's famous or infamous depends largely on your social status and which side of the law you're on. If you're honest and law abiding, he's your hero. If you're rich and/or a criminal, he's your worst nightmare.Before his death, Emperor Grallax XIV would have been the most famous, as the reigning and beloved "Father" (living counterpoint to the "Mother", She-Who-is-Mother-to-Us-All, the Goddess of the draconic faith and living embodiment of the Universe).

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelingGhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelingGhost</a> Part 20: Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part E<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Wss366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wss366</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 7/13. Most famous person in your story.We sat staring uncomfortably at each other. The polite chatter in the Hindenburg’s lounge did nothing to ease our awkward silence. Ms. Pang picked up the Champagné cocktail and took a drink.“Wow, I drank that. It never occurred to me I could eat or drink,” she said.“You probably shouldn’t. They’re all staring.” With my sudden change of clothes and a floating Champagne glass, we’d made quite the spectacle.I stood up, took a bow, and announced in a loud voice, “My show opens next week on Broadway. I hope to see you there.” It was probably gauche, but it covered up our various mistakes.“That was clever,” Ms. Pang said. She had put the glass down and didn’t pick it up again. “Let’s start again. I’m Emily Pang, but you can call me Emily. I’m—I was a reporter. The Nazis revoked my press card, so I was traveling home. In a few days I’m going to die, burn—n… I don’t want to think about it. It was horrible.”“I’m sorry.” No pointless comfort. What else could I say?“I’m Luminelle Bijou. You can call me whatever you want except ‘late for dinner.’” The joke fell flat, but it got a grimace, which was an improvement from the distress I’d seen on her face.“I’m new to this ghost business,” I said, “so there isn’t much I can say about it. Nor can I tell you about my living self. I have no memory of my life. Not even my name. It was Mademoiselle Josephine Baker who christened me Luminelle Bijou.“She’s quite famous. A communist.”“I think you’re confused. She’s a patriot and helped us against the Nazis, no matter what Walter Winchell says.” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell</a>“I’m sorry. I should know better than to repeat gossip. Though I thought Mr. Winchell was her friend.”I thought for a moment. “I’m getting my timelines confused. The war and Walter Winchell’s slander are in the future.”“Oh, you’re from the future? Interesting… I wish I could see what happens. Does everyone end up with personal gyrocopters, that kind of thing?”I almost spit out my drink. At first, I thought she said ‘gyno-copters,’ which would be a very different invention. One I wouldn’t mention in mixed company.“But tell me, who else famous have you met?”“I may have met Elizabeth Bathory and Camilla Karnstein.”Emily looked blank.“One is famous for bathing in blood, and the other is a vampire from a novel.” “You do have charming friends,” Emily said.“Josephine Baker is it, but I’ve thought about visiting Joan of Arc and Amelia Earhart.”“You’d like Mrs. Earhart. She is a pleasant person. Delightful, but she’ll talk your leg off about aviation.”Emily began smiling. I liked it. Her face lit up, and her eyes sparkled. They were almost cobalt blue at the moment. The smile faded, and she whispered, “Don’t look, but THEY are here.”<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TootFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TootFiction</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Serial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Serial</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NMPrompts</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMTTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NMTTA</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMV633" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NMV633</a>

Sandra Bond<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 13 July: Most famous person in your story?Nobody in The Psychopath Club is famous, per se. The closest one to it is probably musician Todd Krank, leader of Todd Krank and the Typhoids, who gigs industriously throughout the midwest (we meet him in Chicago, and Beth mentions proudly to him that she saw him in Minneapolis). But he doesn't have a recording deal or any of that jazz.

Julie BihnWhat Titanic person do non-Titanic fans think is famous? Captain Smith and Thomas Andrews get cameos. Captain Rostrom of the Carpathia wrote the epigraph. "Jack and Rose" are mentioned. The ridiculously wealthy Rochesters are famous in Eloy, but not the national stage. Hmmmm. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> (Prompts in profile!)

Julie BihnRomance in Titanic Voyage? Liam falls in love with Clara, who seems to find him handsome. Liam and Rocky also (separately) play a love-sim-adjacent game called "Heart's Skirmish." Rocky seems to play so he can tease the female characters, but Liam takes it too seriously and…. 🤫 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> (Prompts in profile!)

Lyssa Chiavari<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 11: love triangle?At the time I started writing Fourth World (2012), love triangles were pretty much expected in YA fiction. I liked the way the Fruits Basket manga handled it, where the characters kind of grew out of it rather than the girl just picking one and leaving the other guy perpetually pining, so I wanted to try something similar. I'm pleased with how it turned out, but I wouldn't do it again 😂 I'm comfortable enough now to not feel like I NEED to follow trends.

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelingGhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelingGhost</a> Part 19: Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part D<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Wss633" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wss633</a> & <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 7/11 Romance/love triangle?“The Hindenburg,” I repeated. “And that’s not your sister, but you?”I took a sip of my Champagne cocktail while I put my thoughts in order. I savored the taste to settle my mind. The drink was simple but elegant, not quite up to the ones at the Folies Bergère. There, they rimmed the glass with vibrantly colored sugar crystals and poured with flair. This had been served politely, without fanfare. That kind of flourish would have clashed with the quiet elegance of the Hindenburg. It was a fine drink, fitting for the airship. Emily stared at me. “You drank that?”“Yes, try yours. It is quite good.”“No, you’re a ghost and you drank that!”I hadn’t thought about it, but I couldn’t remember any stories about ghosts drinking. Didn’t Buddhists even make a big deal out of how some ghosts drank and ate but could never feel nourished? That must relate to why I stayed inebriated for so short a time. The first part, not the bit about the hungry ghosts. I found the light fizz and warmth of the drink very satisfying.I shrugged in reply. “So it seems.”“And your clothes, they aren’t very appropriate.”True, they were 21st-century casual: jeans and a short brown sweater dress. They must have passed as a costume at the Folies Bergère. I imagined myself in a dress matching Emily’s and wah lah I was in period attire. I <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/add" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#add</a>(ed) a black pearl necklace for flair.“Don’t do that!” Emily hissed. “You’re putting on a spectacle.”“My bad.” She was right, of course. Doing things like that where I could be seen wasn’t clever. “This ghost thing is all new to me.”“I’m new to ghosting and even I know that was stupid,” she added.I’d wished for a travel companion, and I guessed Emily Pang was it. Not that she was romance material. Heavens, no. I like other women that way, but sharp-tongued women never appealed to me. Besides, she wasn’t even my type. I would just help her and then ask her if she wanted to do some traveling. That’s all.<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TootFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TootFiction</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Serial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Serial</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NMPrompts</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMTTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NMTTA</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMV633" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NMV633</a>

Sandra Bond<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 11 July: Romance/love triangle?Darroll's romance with Vanessa begins via the unorthodox method of him visiting a parallel universe, and finding out that that timeline's version of Vanessa is dating that timeline's version of him.This spurs him, when he returns to his own timeline, to make a play for her there. It's successful. (But will Vanessa's love be enough to redeem him? That'd be a spoiler.)

Quasi<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 11: Romance? * The lesbian love triangle has, in part, taken over. Carrie, MC, with girlfriend Chartreuse... Peaches and Carrie have a mutual attraction to each other... Peaches and Chartreuse are friends. Both have saved Carrie's life. They all know about the issues. Oops.Romance is always a subplot though, Jenny and Sherlock have a Frank and Luci style ship, while Marguerite can confuse things on the triangle side.

Julie BihnDay 9 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> (Prompts in profile!)Behind me, the lights of Historytown shine beneath a starlit sky. I wonder if any of the stars are the same ones that shone over you as you died.--Titanic Voyage

Lyssa Chiavari<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 9: skyI'm still pleased with the first lines in each book of the trilogy:The sky looked red. / The sky was blue. / There was no sky here.

Sandra Bond<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 9 July: Wednesday post-size snippet (optional word: sky)He kept looking up at the sky as he walked, clouds of steam condensing from his breath and drifting upward into his line of vision. Were the stars looking down at him? Were there hidden government satellites up there, watching, recording? He almost hoped they were. Because if they checked the footage from them, all they'd find was that the mural had been defaced in the night by the ghost of a boy who died months ago.

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelingGhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelingGhost</a> Part 18: Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part C<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 7/5 Loops 7/9. POST-SIZED snippet (Word: sky)The standing sister repeated herself, “You can see me.” This time it was a statement rather than a question. The seated sister remained oblivious to us.I studied them again as I decided how to act. They were more than sisters. If they’d stood side by side, I'd not have been able to tell one from the other, except that one wore white and the other mauve.I nodded and walked over. “Yes, I see you.”The seated sister looked up, lips pursed. “Excuse me? Were you talking to me?”The standing one took my arm. “You must help me, please.”“I don’t understand,” I said.The seated woman’s eyebrows pinched. “Neither do I. Now, please stop bothering us, or I’ll call a steward.”“Come, please,” the other woman pulled on my arm and pointed to an unoccupied table. “Let’s talk over there.”We were barely seated when she began speaking. “I’m Emily Pang, and you might not believe this, but I’m a ghost. That’s me sitting over there. I’m still alive, and I have to warn myself—them. But you think I’m crazy, don’t you? Ghosts, who believes in ghosts? I don’t—didn’t. But it’s true, I’ll be dead in a few days...”I held up my hand to stop the torrent of words. “I…” The woman rushed ahead. “...If you would explain to them. I must save them. Please. It’s crazy, but…”“Stop!”She shut her mouth with an almost audible snap.I kept my hand up while I studied her. She looked to be in her forties. Plain, but with a touch of class that her white linen dress accented. Its long lines made her appear taller, but I guessed she was of mid-height. I couldn’t see her hair because of one of those bucket-like hats popular during the Great Depression. Her <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/sky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sky</a>-blue eyes, almost indigo, were her most outstanding feature. A steward appeared, perhaps summoned by my raised hand. He gave me an odd look when I ordered Champagne cocktails for the pair of us, but he took the order without comment.When he’d left, I spoke. “I believe you. I’m a ghost too. Luminelle Bijou, that’s my name.” I almost blushed remembering Mademoiselle Baker.I would have continued, but she launched into speech again, “Then you must have died here too.”“Maybe, I don’t know. Actually, I don’t know where here is.”“The Hindenburg, May 3rd, 1937, on the 6th I burn to death!”The Hindenburg crash. I’d picked a wonderful spot to appear.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TootFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TootFiction</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Serial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Serial</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NMPrompts</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMTTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NMTTA</a>

Quasi<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 9: Sky? * Jenny collapsed back into her desk chair. “Don’t bring Peaches up. I cannae take it.”Sherlock turned back to her. “Sorry,” he apologized. “She’s on my mind because I'm wondering how she’s fared with Carey-Y. What would you prefer that we talk about instead?”Jenny dropped her head back to stare at the ceiling. It was definitely not as soothing as the night sky. “Normal stuff,” she answered.

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/@neuralgh0st" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@neuralgh0st</a> The prompt is one of several daily writer's prompts (hashtags) I follow.They include:<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScribesAndMakers</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/WSS366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WSS366</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MastoPrompt</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/LesFicFri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LesFicFri</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/EroticMusings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EroticMusings</a> My reply is based on my novels and a lifetime of exposure, education, and interest in esoteric, mystic, and animist religion & spirituality.If you meant something other than either of those things, you will need to be clearer.

Julie BihnDay 7! Before I was submitting to my critique group, I realized in time that actually, I probably shouldn't have Liam play the same video game TWICE in the last quarter of the book! 🤔 But yes, Liam goes back to the Titanic again, and again, and again… <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> (Prompts in profile!)

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 7: Time loops or repetition?<Snip <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/WIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WIP</a> > We were barely seated when she began speaking. “I’m Emily Pang, and you might not believe this, but I’m a ghost. That’s me sitting over there. I’m still alive, and I have to warn myself—them. But you think I’m crazy, don’t you? Ghosts, who believes in ghosts? I don’t—didn’t. But it’s true, I’ll be dead in a few days...” <End snip><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMTTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NMTTA</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NMPrompts</a>

Quasi<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 7: Time loops or repetition?Time loops, no (though I have considered it). Time repetition, absolutely, as some characters gain the ability to mentally travel back and change what they say, even as others are... mostly locked into repeating their prior actions. Plus, minor physical time jumps allow witnessing prior events as they play out again.It's complicated. Hopefully you like that sort of thing.

Sandra Bond<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravelAuthors</a> 7 July: Any form of time loops or repetition?Repetition, in the sense that the infinite number of parallel universes mainly differ from one another in only the tiniest detail, often indistinguishable to Darroll as he moves between them. ("A guy in Connecticut buying Pepsi instead of Coke to drink with his lunch.")

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