The Time Traveler's Guide: Writing time travel stories and historical fiction - Paperback

by Simon Rose (Author)

The Time Traveler's Guide examines the writing of time travel stories and historical fiction. Books always transport us to other places, especially stories involving time travel or those set in different historical eras. The book examines the definition of time travel and historical fiction, the creation of time machines, methods and devices, selecting historical eras and settings, and creating characters and crafting dialogue. The book also explores common issues with time travel stories, and the importance of research, plausibility, description, and plot, along with writing about time travel into the future, alternate history, and parallel universes.The Time Traveler's Guide is an excellent resource for those writing time travel or historical fiction stories for both children and adults."This is a unique book, overall, and I recommend it to writers and those interested in methods of time travel in general.""The Time Traveler's Guide is a great resource for any writer wanting to improve their craft."

Author Biography

Simon Rose is the author of The Alchemist's Portrait, The Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy, The Emerald Curse, The Heretic's Tomb, The Doomsday Mask, The Time Camera, The Sphere of Septimus, Flashback, Future Imperfect, Twisted Fate, and the Shadowzone series. He is also the author of The Children's Writer's Guide, a contributor to The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction and has written many non-fiction books with Weigl Publishers and Capstone. Simon offers a wide variety of presentations, workshops and author in residence programs for schools, along with virtual author visits by video using Skype. He is an instructor for adults with the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University and offers a variety of online workshops for both children and adults. Simon offers a number of services for writers, including manuscript evaluation, editing, writing workshops and coaching. Full details can be found at his website simon-rose.com. You may also visit his channel on YouTube, follow him on Twitter or connect on Facebook.