#TimeTravelAuthors 04/13. Silliest character

No one in #TimeTravelingGhost is what I would call silly. In "#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch," there’s the crow. She can be silly at times. So far, the time-travel element of that story is minimal, with only a brief mention of the Edo period or an Edo-like setting in Kakuriyo.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 03/23. Something that surprised you about your story

• That I have written over 29K of this story. And that people are still following, retcon and all.
• And that it reads as smoothly as it does when put it together and start editing for broader release.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 03/19. Servants in your story

Many eras have servants. As wandering ghosts, neither Bijou nor Emily has personal servants. They do, however, stay at ritzy places where they do. Scene below is a clip from Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg

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#TimeTravelAuthors 03/9. Explain your story's time travel method with emojis

Story: 🐰 🔪 ➡️ 🪦 👻 ➡️ ⏲️ 🚅 ➡️ 👀 🐇

Method: 👻 🙏 ➡️ ⏲️ 🚅

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#TimeTravelAuthors 02/19. How honest are your characters?

Which ones? I imagine #Bijou and Emily are honest. The rabbits, not at all.

#Airisu, the crow: Honesty is not something I would expect from a crow. I watch them steal from each other all the time. As for the witch, I haven’t decided.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 02/17. Does your world have the butterfly effect?

Bijou: The concept of “Time-pressure” prevents the butterfly effect. It is a very important plot point, which, for spoiler reasons, I will not go into.

Crow: #Meta See tomorrow’s #Wss366 post: While it isn’t obvious right now, this is a butterfly that has historical consequences. In fact, it will be quite a while until you even understand why it is in the story.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 02/15. Comp titles?

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth and any of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ space stories.

None that I am aware of in the genre. I am not well-read in this area, except @juliebihn and @QuasiTemporal work. And a few light novels like “Qualia the Purple” or “Cogs of Time.” I’m sure I read “A Wrinkle in Time” as a child.
What I am saying is I’m a nob in this genre and have no comp titles.

Outside the genre: Too light-hearted for Lovecraft. Too much quality for Michael Moorcock or Kenneth Robeson.

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#TimeTravelAuthors Jan. 5th: Languages in your story

Bijou speaks English and French.
Emily speaks English, German, and Mandarin Chinese.
We have also seen Latin writings and will soon see Vedic Sanskrit, medieval Latin, and Hellenic Greek. Undoubtedly, we will at some point run into eye dialect and probably the use of waka and katatsu poetry for communication.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 3/1. Is your work a standalone or a series?

• Bijou is serialized. Who knows if it will end up standalone or a series.
• The yet unnamed crow story will have some time-travel in it. The current vision is for a series of Slice of Life short stories and novellas that connect.
• Goldilocks and Three Grim Fates is standalone flash fiction.
• Waiting for Takiyasha-tenno is envisioned as 3-4 light novel volumes.

None were or are standalone if you consider the original releases were serialized.
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#TimeTravelAuthors 1/2 Introduce your story (optional: use the word "love")

If you enjoy conscious pulp and #love the surreal, “Bijou the Time Traveling Ghost” is for you. Bijou, a ghost with no memory of her past, has the power to time-travel. When she teams g up with a woman who died in the crash of the Hindenburg, they set off to discover the secrets of the time-traveling and sinister Nazi rabbits that keep popping up? Is it the #Illuminati? Or the #ElderGods? Or something else?

Serialized irregularly through the #TimeTravelAuthors hashtag.

#SlowBurn #Yuri #PulpFiction & #TimeTravel
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