/lit/ - Literature

why can't I be a good enough writer to tell the story I want to tell /sffg/? I know there's a spark inside me capable of it, but I can't draw on it no matter what I do and the pressure of trying to live up to my heroes is crushing me into carbonados

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>>14092720
there is only one work of fiction allowed to be second person.

>>14092717
past

>>14090862
cool, now when the fuck is ken liu going to finish the dandelion dynasty? Dude's too good a writer to waste his time translating a fucking fanfic

>>13317342
Not a book, but Homestuck is and always will be the best time travel story ever made. it may have many other flaws, but how it handles time travel isn't one of them. In fact, I'm pretty sure it sets the standard for how time travel is supposed to work.

in homestuck, past present and future follow a script, albeit one that's extremely non-linear and includes so many loops it's a running joke that one character keep getting into arguments with himself. In general, the universe will follow this script, but time travelers can go off script in which case a new timeline is created that usually doesn't go well. Once it goes wrong, time travelers can travel back to before the timeline split to prevent things from going wrong, but unless they were tying up a loose end in the script they'll just create another timeline

however, the form of time travel where you can go back in time and change things actually does happen, but as this naturally results in massive plot holes, the only way to do it is to use a magical artifact that is represented in-comic by a hole in the page in the shape of the logo. In other words, it's a literal, physical hole in the plot