3 Tips for Writing Time-Travel Stories

Diane Callahan
The Startup
Published in
5 min readMay 5, 2020

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There’s a reason time-travel stories have stood the test of time — we love imagining the different paths our lives could take. What if we could prevent a loved one’s death or change the course of history? What if we could meet our past or future selves?

Recursion by Blake Crouch reminded me how good time-travel stories can be when they include the right ingredients. Not every novel about time…

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