#TimeTravelAuthors #Writing 14 Whatever
The Standard Body™ isn't exactly standard. Remember that it's a feminized male body, but that's only on the outside. The innards will be built according to what the user's DNA say. A woman with a Standard Body™ can get pregnant with 5C13NC3! The baby will be a 100% normal biological human being, and that their mother is a collection of nanomachines with a human mind/soul is just a trivial detail. How can this be possible? Again, with 5C13NC3! =D
#TimeTravelAuthors 13: Fictional character that reminds you of characters?
I was going to remark on how Julie's background was unintentionally very similar to Meiko's of Marmalade Boy. But then I saw what @lyssachiavari did with the prompt and decided to have additional fun with it, using anime I know.
Connection is largely personality, except for Julie. Some are a bit of a stretch. How many can you identify?? Enjoy!
As anyone who's read both books can guess, Henry in @lyssachiavari 's excellent Iamos Trilogy reminds me of Rocky (though Henry was in print first!). But I suppose most fictional computer geniuses fit the bill. It's a trope for a reason! #TimeTravelAuthors (Prompts in profile!)
#TimeTravelAuthors 13: Fictional character that reminds you of one of your characters?
As one more than usually perceptive reviewer spotted and called attention to, there is a heck of a lot of Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye in Darroll.
#TimeTravelAuthors #Writing 13 Fictional character that reminds you of one of your characters
The Engineer could be a Puppeteer from Larry Niven's Known Space stories (and a mad beyond madness one, btw) but we don't know what he looks like…=)
And anyone (male, female, or David Bowie) with a Standard Body™ could be confused with someone crossplaying Ghost Sweeper Mikami's MC, Reiko Mikami, with the "Sexy" dial turned up to eleven (yes, that can happen). And in drugs…>=)
#TimeTravelAuthors 13: Fictional character that reminds you of one of your characters
Bringing these back from IG a few years ago:
#TimeTravelAuthors 13: Fictional char like MC?
On a superficial level, Jim resembles many classic #ScienceFiction characters of yore - an intelligent, fit young man thrown into a #SciFi survival situation.
But he's *not* omnicompetent and perfect. He can (and does) make a lot of mistakes. And his martial abilities have little bearing on his chances.
#TimeTravelAuthors #Writing 11 If your book were a food/candy, what would it be?
Durian. You're either going to like it or hate it. There's no room in between. (I don't have the gene to appreciate Durian fruit, so its a pretty odd metaphor for me, since I love my setting...)
#TimeTravelAuthors #Writing 12 Whatever
RatDonalds is a multiversal food chain, but no in the "traditional" way. It isn't a company run in one reality with franchises all around the multiverse, but a company that somehow appears in many realities, founded by people of similar background but that *ARE NOT* different versions of the same persons. The menu is mostly the same everywhere, and their food taste the same. Why/How/What? It's a mystery that's better left as unsolved…=)
#TimeTravelAuthors #Writing 11 If your book were a food/candy, what would it be?
I'd like it to be compared to a RatDonald's Cheeseburger…=)
Not because of the questionable nutritional value of said burger, but because of its popularity. And because of its, honestly, delicious* flavor…=)
* If you disagree with me on this, we can meet outside of Metro Balderas in Mexicalpán de Los Imecas to solve this with your favorite fictional weapon of choice…=)
#TimeTravelAuthors Mar 11: If your book were a candy, what would it be?
A Toffifee. Gooey outside, with chocolate on top and a hard core.
#TimeTravelAuthors 11: If your book were a candy, what would it be?
Koko Kringle, because it's full of obscure references that only a niche audience will understand.
It's very cow!
If TITANIC VOYAGE were a candy, it would be sea salt white chocolate Kit Kat from Japan. The sea salt bit is maybe self-explanatory (the Atlantic + angst). And it's an obscure, weird, and delightful candy, so I think it matches my book. #TimeTravelAuthors (Prompts in profile!)
#TimeTravelAuthors 11: Book was a candy?
Damn, I don't know. Maybe one of those sour candies. Rather tart to start out, but it eases off as you keep eating. And you don't realize it's released dopamine, and can become addictive after a time. (Maybe that's wishful thinking.)
#TimeTravelAuthors 10: Actual news.
Trying to track photons by their "emissions". Analogy quote:
"The shocking thing is that when you design something that measures how long are the cars in the tunnel – this carbon monoxide monitor – it turns out that the monitor in this kind of quantum mechanical situation will read negative minutes," says Sinclair. "We understand mathematically why it's happening, but we don't know how to talk about the physical meaning of it."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250306-the-bizarre-quantum-paradox-of-negative-time
#TimeTravelAuthors #Writing 10 Whatever
No news is good news, except when you need to know the news. Everyone wants to know what's happening in their time and place, and they'll get that info. Not with all the details they'd like, but they'll know if their favorite team won the championship or not. Things like this help them to keep their sanity. Just imagine what would happen if those news were lies created to keep them under control. But The Engineer would *NEVER* do such thing, right? >=)
#TimeTravelAuthors 9: News in your story
The newscasts in the new timeline mostly confuse Jim. But he's got to get familiar with them - fast. A publicity campaign is the only way he can hope to press for mercy from the courts in his upcoming murder trial...
#TimeTravelAuthors 9: News?
News stories are a detail I really don't address, unless it comes up in the narrative. Such as when Carrie's friends were trying to verify whether Julie had died in the past by looking at old news stories in the library.
That said, presumably someone reports on the property destruction that occurs at one point. But time travel doesn't make the news, it's all covert.
#TimeTravelAuthors #Writing 9 News in your story
The Engineer would like to block his crew from the news when they are doing their job, but that's almost impossible. It can be done, but not without causing *MORE* memory holes in their feeble minds. They get the news in whatever media they have access to when they're on site. On the time-ship, they get a curated feed, customized for every member and for their eyes only. Does that work? No. But the Engineer can dream, right? =)
No world events figure into TITANIC VOYAGE. Well, OK, the Titanic sinking is pretty old news in Liam's time period but breaking news in 1912. Otherwise, Liam gets several bits of bad news in Titanic Voyage—that the ride he's worked at for all his adult life is closing, and then—oops, spoilers! #TimeTravelAuthors (Prompts in profile!)
