Quickwrite of the Day #68: Time Travelling
“Writing can be used as a vehicle to express ourselves as we negotiate the journey through our lives” (Gallagher, 2011: p.24)
Today’s Quickwrite:
“I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone the could call into the past?”
The above question that author Rainbow Rowell once asked herself about time travel went on to form the basis of her 2014 sci-fi novel, Landline.
Like Rowell, today’s QuickWrite asks you to ask your own questions about time travel and use them to inspire your writing.
These might include:
What if I could…?
What would happen if…?
How would I time travel?
If I went to...what would I do?
If I went to...who would I see?
What would I like to find out or learn about where I go?
As you write you could consider:
Where you would go if you could travel through time. The future? The past?
The purpose of your time travelling; whether your time travel is about exploring, discovering or changing something (or maybe escaping the present)
How you would time travel; what you would use, how it would work
What you would do when you reached your destination
Who you would want to see at that destination
Find your way to express your thinking. This might include:
Writing poetically
Writing a short story
Planning out a time travel story
Painting a picture of the destination with your words
Sketching and designing a time travel machine
Answering your own questions in detail
Describing a time travel experience
Want more Quickwrite topics? Check out the slide deck here, or see it in presentation mode on your Resources page.
Happy writing!
