Time Travel... why is it so complicated?
You may have already read my other post [Trial of Time trials] and decided that my second book, which is nearing completion, has many complexities which new authors must often discover on their own.
Of course, the latest complexity that I have to deal with, I can put the entire blame on myself. I didn't have to write about time travel... but here I am.
I've never truly gotten into the time-old (haha, see what I did there?) question about: when you affect something in the past, will it change the entire future or will the future you came from already be as it is due to something you did in the past except that you're doing whatever it is right at this moment???? Confusing, right? I probably don't even understand what I just wrote, and if it makes sense or not, but I can confirm that we're all confused😁
So imagine me writing about time travel... I shudder to think about the consequences. Luckily, only a few characters experience the joys and consequences of time travel - who am I kidding, 8 out of the 14 lead characters go through time travel! - so I had my work cut out for me while I was writing my second book, Trial of Time. I don't want to give too many spoilers, but I have come across a funny, yet confusing, incidence that I would like to share with you. For anonymity's sake, so you can enjoy the books without knowing too much, I'm going to label my 2 characters A and B.
A meets B for the first time in the normal time line. Yet, technically, they have already met in the past, except that A knows who B is, and B doesn't know who A. This is because B belongs to that timeline and A is only visiting, so how could B have known A? Their third meeting can only be counted as their third by B because B is in disguise, and A would only consider it their second meeting because A at that point has not gone into the past yet... but only if A had seen past B's disguise... which A didn't.
Did you get all that? Did I make your brain hurt while trying to figure that one out? Funny, though, isn't it? It gave me a headache trying to write about it, and that's not even the worst part of the whole time travel aspect of my story! But I won't get into that, otherwise your brain might explode like mine did. Not literally, but you know what I mean😉
So, lovely readers, here's hoping that your brain remains intact when reading Trial of Time. It's on the verge of being finished, with only a few more chapters left to write, plus the extra editing. If you're interested in how my final cover design turned out, check it out in the More Info tab.
- Andra K.
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