I am in dire need of brainstorming assistance. LOL.
Long story short: I imposed upon myself one of the most complicated forms of fantastical storytelling I could: Time travel.
While it’s been a blast to write, it’s also been pretty complicated.
And after watching about half of Christopher Nolan’s movies in the last few months I’m starting to realize how inadequate my time travel system is.
So my question is; how can I write both believable AND compelling time travel? What are some tips for writing time travel that both works, make sense, and is enjoyable for my reader?
Alli,
That was super geeky and I loved every word of it. So fun.
E.G.,
I will expand upon Alli’s idea here and say that an important feature is to give them some physics concept as your method, and even the rocket scientist cannot explain how it would work.
Alli gave three examples within which I would like to point out the methods.
Back to the Future uses the Flux capacitor to generate time travel. How fun it is that he saw it in his vision after hitting his head on the toilet?
Marvel goes to the quantum level to achieve it. Going small is already an unbelievable feat, but to do it infinitely is fascinating.
Terminator has one guy of lore create the time machine, but unfortunately does not give me enough information to make it believable.
I have written a time based book that is not time travel, it is speeding up within time. Hoping the theory comes across as pretty cool, but I know I had to back off from explaining as much as I first put in the writing. People that read a lot are often not the scientists that have a chance at debunking your theory.
Hope this helps.
