#TimeTravelAuthors April 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: as a knock-knock or other joke) 3. What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? (suggested by Candace Hill) 5. Games in your story 7. How seriously do they take time travel? 9. Will your characters admit they're wrong? 11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: point) 13. Silliest character 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: sink/sank) (suggested by NaraMoore) 17. How do you feel about story structure? 19. Any authorities in your story? 21. Repost or reply to another #TimeTravelAuthors participant's post 23. Do your characters test time travel? 25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: alert/observe/observant) 27. Message/moral of your story 29. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social

#TimeTravelAuthors 5

#TheDragonblood: The story starts with a game of D&D.

#InReverse: I don't think I have any, yet. Maybe Harriet and Meg have devised a game that can be played both forward and in reverse, but I don't know what sort of game that would be.

#TimeTravelAuthors D5

Other than the constant mention of video games. There's also ...

“You’re like an annoying puppy, you know that?” She tried to sound irritated, but I noticed a slight smile on her lips. “Fine. I’ll play your game—but only to shut you up. I’m from—” Her head snapped up[...]

I don't have rampant, but in a cheeky side move, I give you rampart instead.

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5. Games in your story

#TimeTravelAuthors
Gary plays video games, but it doesn't come up much.
Lock is into track and field, especially any event that involves sprinting.

Except from story text.

List of prompts for posting.

#TimeTravelAuthors D5 Baseball! Have some pity for Arthur. He is a Brit, from 100 years in the future, he doesn't know the game or the English language references. His aides try to get him to a game. His new friend Chase is excited about hosting an outing. Oh, Arthur is a demon at poker.

Time Travel Authors – 5 April prompt: Games in your story

#TimeTravelAuthors #Day5 Much like Friday’s prompt, my #TimeTravel story is gameless.

#BonApriltit DAY 5

Food is very important in Japan and is often lushly described in their literature. Since my novels are set there, food is mentioned frequently and, yes, lushly described

My first novel, set outside of JP #TimeTravelingGhost follows this same pattern. #TimeTravelAuthors

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#TimeTravelingGhost EP 8: Post 89: 2025 Arkham

Complications arise on the way to pick up Professor Dubios' letters. Long-eared bunny kind

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#TimeTravelAuthors 5: games

Maureen is a graphic novelist and her series is a LitRPG where three friends find themselves transported into their favorite video game.

Fun fact: this is a series I came up with in high school! I scrapped it, but including it in JLTFT was a way for it to live on.

I've always liked games as a framework to build a conversation. Lonely Ship has a few scenes where characters playing a game argue about something important.

But I don't want to use real-world games and I don't want to invent anything! ... 🧵

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#TimeTravelAuthors 5. Joaquín and Zephyr like to pretend they're characters in their favorite sci-fi show. I also have some references to Zork and NetHack ready to work in if I write an appropriate scene.

#TimeTravelAuthors April 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: as a knock-knock or other joke) 3. What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? (suggested by Candace Hill) 5. Games in your story 7. How seriously do they take time travel? 9. Will your characters admit they're wrong? 11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: point) 13. Silliest character 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: sink/sank) (suggested by NaraMoore) 17. How do you feel about story structure? 19. Any authorities in your story? 21. Repost or reply to another #TimeTravelAuthors participant's post 23. Do your characters test time travel? 25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: alert/observe/observant) 27. Message/moral of your story 29. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social

#TimeTravelAuthors 5: Games in your story

Jim's seen sports, as well as board games. In my WIP, he gets to see the new timeline's equivalent of pinball games, plus a party game. (Though it's played with a serious edge in Jim's case.)

#SciFi

#TimeTravelAuthors Apr 5: Games in story?

I have an entire chapter where Dave and Homura play arcade games (shooter and rhythm machines).

D5. There are plenty of mind games, plus political game playing, gaslighting, and even mind control. But the only physical game in the story is a round of Backgammon, courtesy of some old timers drinking in a pub.

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"Titanic Voyage, available now." Book cover with a floating, glowing porthole with a man walking the Titanic (?) deck and a light above him. Behind the porthole is a night sky, a silhouette of roller coaster tracks, and water. Arrows point at the image: *Slice of life + angsty romance + grief *Time travel via a struggling amusement park *Emotional hero, sweet heroine *Teenage computer genius sidekick *NO VILLAINS (unless you count the iceberg?) *Oops all cinnamon rolls *Maybe second-person? *Hopeful ending

#TimeTravelAuthors April 2026 1. Introduce your story (opt. as a knock-knock or other joke) 3. What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? (suggested by Candace Hill) 5. Games in your story 7. How seriously do they take time travel? 9. Will your characters admit they're wrong? 11. Saturday excerpt (opt. word: point) 13. Silliest character 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (opt. word: sink/sank) (suggested by NaraMoore) 17. How do you feel about story structure? 19. Any authorities in your story? 21. Repost or reply to another #TimeTravelAuthors participant's post 23. Do your characters test time travel? 25. Saturday excerpt (opt. word: alert/observe/observant) 27. Message/moral of story 29. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social

Games in Titanic Voyage? Besides Rocky playing pranks on Liam, there's several references to a love sim with minigames, "Heart's Skirmish." Rocky plays it and later gifts it to Liam. A trad publishing editor would have axed it, I'm sure.

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#AntagonistApril Who's the 1st antag your MC meets?

#MyGirlfriend Tanya-chan trying to seduce Shiro by getting her drunk
#KonbiniIdol Shishi's dead lover luring Shishi into a cemetery
#Airisu Lord of Himeji Castle beating Okiku (Dream)
#Bijou Facist rabbits on the Hindenburg #TimeTravelAuthors

The best I've got is seminar.

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3. What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? (suggested by Candace Hill)

#TimeTravelAuthors
Lock usually drinks Coke or Pepsi.
Lucy drinks her coffee with enough sugar and creamer to make it technically a dessert.

#TimeTravelAuthors April 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: as a knock-knock or other joke) 3. What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? (suggested by Candace Hill) 5. Games in your story 7. How seriously do they take time travel? 9. Will your characters admit they're wrong? 11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: point) 13. Silliest character 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: sink/sank) (suggested by NaraMoore) 17. How do you feel about story structure? 19. Any authorities in your story? 21. Repost or reply to another #TimeTravelAuthors participant's post 23. Do your characters test time travel? 25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: alert/observe/observant) 27. Message/moral of your story 29. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social

#TimeTravelAuthors 3

#TheDragonblood: I haven't decided how Felix would react to caffeine, whether he'd be the type for it to make him EXTRA jittery, or calm and focused, or sleepy, or simply do nothing.

I'm thinking his caffeinated beverage of choice would be a hot chocolate, though. (1/3)

Square image of an audiobook cover, with a vibrant pinkish-purple background and the setting sun. Beryl, in the foreground wearing a summery red dress, looks back at a shiny new blue 1946 car and a 3-story building; yellow light spills out of the building's upper floor window, framing the silhouette of a man wearing a fedora gazing out at Beryl. The author's name is in white at the top of the illustration: Janet Raye Stevens, Award-Winning Author, with Narrated By Cassandra Medcalf underneath. At the bottom of the picture is the book's title, It's Been A Long, Long Time: A Beryl Blue, Time Cop Novel.

#TimeTravelAuthors D3
Beryl Blue loves coffee, which is in short supply in the future, so she's stuck w/a fake brew called triple-synth:

"I took a sip, followed by a grimace. It tasted like caffeinated mud. It always tasted like that. So why did my taste buds hope this time it'd be different?"

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Released: #TimeTravelingGhost EP 8: Post 88: 2025 Arkham

Time-pressure: The force that keeps history from changing.

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a coffee maker that says ' mezza ' on it ALT: a coffee maker that says ' mezza ' on it

#TimeTravelAuthors D3 Coffee! Arthur is British, and those people make a religion of tea drinking. However, London merchants also imported coffee and encouraged coffee culture. He is often a C.O. making big decisions so double-shot of espresso for him. After the Great Hurricane coffee is rare.

#TimeTravelAuthors 3: characters' coffee preferences

You'd think, considering that Alana works at a coffee shop, that I would have given this more thought, but I did not 😂 During their meeting scene, Maureen orders a mocha and that's as far as I thought it out.

Time Travel Authors – 3 April prompt: What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? (suggested by Candace Hill)

#TimeTravelAuthors #Day3 Sadly, my #TimeTravel adventure is decaffeinated. There’s only water.

#TimeTravelAuthors Apr 3 prompt: Caffeinated beverage?

Dave canonically only tried coffee after escaping from Earth. So, in my quoted story, he has a soft spot for awful black coffee from coffee dispensers and soda.

I also have Homura drinking hot instant coffee and cold energy drinks.

"Titanic Voyage, available now." Book cover with a floating, glowing porthole with a man walking the Titanic (?) deck and a light above him. Behind the porthole is a night sky, a silhouette of roller coaster tracks, and water. Arrows point at the image: *Slice of life + angsty romance + grief *Time travel via a struggling amusement park *Emotional hero, sweet heroine *Teenage computer genius sidekick *NO VILLAINS (unless you count the iceberg?) *Oops all cinnamon rolls *Maybe second-person? *Hopeful ending

#TimeTravelAuthors April 2026 1. Introduce your story (opt. as a knock-knock or other joke) 3. What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? (suggested by Candace Hill) 5. Games in your story 7. How seriously do they take time travel? 9. Will your characters admit they're wrong? 11. Saturday excerpt (opt. word: point) 13. Silliest character 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (opt. word: sink/sank) (suggested by NaraMoore) 17. How do you feel about story structure? 19. Any authorities in your story? 21. Repost or reply to another #TimeTravelAuthors participant's post 23. Do your characters test time travel? 25. Saturday excerpt (opt. word: alert/observe/observant) 27. Message/moral of story 29. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social

Caffeinated beverages?

Liam canonically likes tea. Clara prefers coffee, but I don't think we see that anywhere. Rocky…from his boundless energy, you'd think he'd drink SOMETHING, but he might run on sugar. (Anyone recognize my book's homage, "Coffee? Tea? Monster?") #TimeTravelAuthors

#TimeTravelAuthors April 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: as a knock-knock or other joke) 3. What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? (suggested by Candace Hill) 5. Games in your story 7. How seriously do they take time travel? 9. Will your characters admit they're wrong? 11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: point) 13. Silliest character 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: sink/sank) (suggested by NaraMoore) 17. How do you feel about story structure? 19. Any authorities in your story? 21. Repost or reply to another #TimeTravelAuthors participant's post 23. Do your characters test time travel? 25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: alert/observe/observant) 27. Message/moral of your story 29. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social

#TimeTravelAuthors 3: Caffiene

Jim drank coffee, and a variety of teas. He *deeply* misses them in the new timeline. But in my WIP sequel, he encounters one of the local equivalents. Popular at parties.

#SciFi #TimeTravel #ScienceFiction