#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

Welp we made a list and checked it more than thrice. This month's prompts #TimeTravelAuthors! #TImeTravelAuthorsQ #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #WritingPrompts #HashtagGames

#TimeTravelAuthors March 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional word: luck/lucky) 3. Are your characters protecting anything/one? 5. Apologies in your story 7. Saturday excerpt (optional word: quiet/loud) 9. Explain your story's time travel method with emojis 11. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: leaf/leaves/leave) 13. Cultures in your story 15. Does anyone have fun (or want to have fun) with time travel? 17. Patient or patience in your story 19. Servants in your story 21. Saturday excerpt (optional word: march/step) 23. Something that surprised you about your story 25. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: brief/short) 27. Alternate timelines in your story? 29. Characters' eye colors 31. 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

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! If you write, wrote, or will write time travel, I hope to see you then! (Other projects like comics, games, movies, etc. are welcome too.) #WritingCommunity #WritingQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ

#TimeTravelAuthors January 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: start with "First..." or "At first…") 3. Saturday excerpt (optional word: deal) 5. What projects are you working on? 7. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: name) 9. Your goals for 2026 11. Time travel tropes you love 13. How realistic is your story? 15. The cost of time travel 17. Saturday excerpt (optional word: work) 19. A character's goal 21. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: count) 23. A favorite moment in your story 25. Problem/difficulty you had with time travel 27. Medical care in your story 29. What trigger warnings would you give? 31. 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

Next month's prompts #TimeTravelAuthors! #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #WritingPrompts

#TimeTravelAuthors December 2025 1. Introduce your story (optional: start with "'Twas the night before...") 3. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: decor/decorate) 5. Do any of your characters have a fantasy? 7. How did a character get their name? 9. A time someone failed 11. Does anyone keep things under wraps? 13. Saturday excerpt (optional word: far) 15. How many days/months/years back do they travel? 17. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: room) 19. A character who's naughty 21. A character who's nice 23. Nostalgia in your story 25. Does anything happen at midnight? 27. Saturday excerpt (optional word: gift) 29. Any time travel cliches? 31. 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

I made a list and it was checked at least thrice (though only once by me).

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! My holiday wish is to see you then! #WritingCommunity #WritingQs #HashtagGames #WritingPrompts #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #TimeTravelAuthorsQs

#TimeTravelAuthors November 2025 1. Introduce your story (optional: include the word "thank") 3. What would your characters do if they could travel forward in time? 5. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: meal/food) 7. Sports in your story 9. Strangest research you did for your story 11. Does time ever fly? 13. Desserts? 15. Saturday excerpt (optional phrase: what if) 17. Does anyone read in your story? 19. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: thank) 21. Something you're thankful for in your writing process 23. Do any of your characters act like turkeys? 25. Shopping in your story 27. A sentence from page 11 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!

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! This month with extra servings of "thanks"! (I'm thankful for all of you!) #WritingPrompts #WritingQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #WritingCommunity

#TimeTravelAuthors October 2025 Answer as a character! 1. Introduce yourself and the story 3. Your first appearance and/or line of dialogue in the story 5. Why are you important to the story? 7. Something odd/weird you've experienced 9. Favorite person 11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: most) 13. What does someone else in the story think of you? 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: give/gave) 17. What life advice would you give? 19. Proudest moment 21. If you got to write the story, what would you change? 23. Tell us about your enemies 25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: back) 27. How do you feel about time travel? 29. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: now) 31. Character'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

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! Answer as a character! Or multiple characters if you like. Hope to see you then! #TimeTravel #WritingCommunity #WritingQs #WritingPrompts #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ

#TimeTravelAuthors September 2025 1. Tell us about your time-travel story (optional: from a sidekick's POV) 3. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: smooth/soft) 5. How many people are aware of time travel in your story? 7. Smartest character in your story 9. Tone of your story 11. How do you keep up urgency in your story? 13. Saturday excerpt (optional word: fire) 15. Any miracles? 17. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: strange) 19. Any reference to other time travel works in your story? 21. How sincere are your characters? 23. Anger in your story 25. How do you picture your story world 50 years in the future? 27. Saturday excerpt (optional word: pleasant) 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

Next month's prompts #TimeTravelAuthors! #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #WritingQs #WritingCommunity

(October will be something like answering them all as characters. Goodness help us all!)

#TimeTravelAuthors (updated!) August 2025 1. Tell us about your time-travel story (optional: end with "out of time") 3. Deleted sentence or scene 5. Jobs/work in your story 7. Do they time travel many times? Once? Something else? 9. Saturday excerpt (optional word: strong) 11. Cold/freezing in your story 13. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: mess) 15. Injustices in your story? 17. How athletic are your characters? 19. Nicknames in your story 21. Any time police/parties restricting time travel? 23. Saturday excerpt (optional word: restore) 25. Writing advice you liked 27. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: adventure) 29. Is anyone late? 31. 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

CORRECTED PROMPTS #TimeTravelAuthors

#WritingCommunity #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #HashtagGames

#TimeTravelAuthors August 2025 1. Tell us about your time-travel story (optional: end with "out of time") 3. Deleted sentence or scene 5. Jobs/work in your story 7. Do they time travel many times? Once? Something else? 9. Saturday excerpt (optional word: line) 11. Cold/freezing in your story 13. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: sky) 15. Injustices in your story? 17. How athletic are your characters? 19. Nicknames in your story 21. Any time police/parties restricting time travel? 23. Saturday excerpt (optional word: line) 25. Writing advice you liked 27. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: sky) 29. Is anyone late? 31. 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

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! Hope to see you then! #WritingCommunity #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #HashtagGames

#TimeTravelAuthors July 2025 1. Tell us about your time-travel story (optional: start with the word "When") 3. What are your characters fighting for? 5. Saturday excerpt (optional word: round/around) 7. Any form of time loops or repetition? 9. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: sky) 11. Romance/love triangle? 13. Most famous person in your story 15. On a scale of 1-10, how serious is your story? 17. Status of your time-travel projects 19. Saturday excerpt (optional word: line) 21. If you had a time machine, would you change anything about your work/s? 23. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: water) 25. Jewelry or fashion in your story 27. Did you write anyone you know into your story? 29. Masks (literal or figurative) 31. 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

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! Hope to see you then! #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #WritingCommunity

#TimeTravelAuthors May 2025 1. Tell us about your time-travel story 3. Saturday excerpt (optional word: liberty) 5. Does time stop in your story? (literally or figuratively) 7. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: release) 9. Personality types of your characters (Myers-Briggs? others?) 11. If given the opportunity, would your characters change history to stop a tragedy? 13. Catchphrases for your story 15. Character who's least likely to time travel 17. Saturday excerpt (optional word: justice) 19. Where did you get the idea for your story? 21. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: fair) 23. Quote-post another #TimeTravelAuthor's post with a comment 25. Historical(?) research for your story 27. Siblings in your story? 29. How much violence in your story? 31. 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

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! Hope to see you then! May would be a great time to join, #WritingCommunity. #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #TimeTravelAuthorsQs

#TimeTravelAuthors March 2025 1. Introduce your time-travel story in one sentence 3. Describe your time travel machine/technology/etc. 5. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: fury/anger) 7. Any rulebreakers in your story? 9. News in your story 11. If your book were a food/candy, what would it be? 13. Fictional character that reminds you of one of your characters 15. Saturday excerpt (optional word: empty) 17. Something you and a character have in common 19. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: horror) 21. Something your MC loves about the time they visit 23. Most introverted character 25. Revenge in your story 27. Who would your MC want one more day with? 29. Saturday excerpt (optional word: pain) 31. 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

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! If you wrote, write, or will write #TimeTravel, I'd love to meet you and hear more about your work. Please join along and be part of a community! #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #WritingCommunity

#TimeTravelAuthors February 2025 1. Introduce your time-travel story 3. Do you use regret as a trope? 5. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: travel) 7. Strangest practical application for time travel in your story world 9. Plants/nature in your story 11. Would/do your characters fit in well in another time period? 13. Multiverses? 15. Saturday excerpt (optional word: trouble) 17. Communication devices in your story 19. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: measure) 21. How "spicy" is your story? 23. Joy in your story 25. Most competent character 27. 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

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! If you wrote, write, or will write time travel fiction (or comics, or movies, or radio plays, or whatever), I hope you'll join us! #TimeTravelAuthorsQ