So you want to write time travel?
This is a good piece about writing time travel – take a look at Monique’s article on Kobo Writing Life.
Originally posted on Kobo Writing Life:
By Monique Martin
Writing time travel takes someone who loves history, but can embrace fantasy. It’s reality-adjacent. It also helps if you were dropped on your head as a small child because you have to be crazy to want to do it. Of course, all writers have a certain baseline of crazy, but I think time travel writers have an added masochistic streak.
Like their cousins, the historical fiction writer (I’m parsing out non-fiction, because they’re a completely different kind of crazy, amiright?), the time travel writer has to love history and research. Love it so much you might actually own vintage pantaloons or civil war bandages. Love it so much last Halloween you went as Haile Selassie. Love it so much that if you ever met Thomas Alva Edison, you might sock him on the nose.
You have to love it because you’ll spend the next few months (or…
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