# Time After

This year for NaNoWriMo, I chose to write about time travel. Or time travel chose to have me write about it. I don't really know how things work when you fly by the seat of your pants and have a story kind of fall into your lap.

I'd been planning on writing book 3 in a series, but I didn't write enough in October to finish book 2, so took this approach instead. Not that it matters too much anyway, since all my writing kind of fell by the wayside when I caught COVID. I am enjoying the story I'm writing, for what it's worth.

I have a hard time in video games where you have to go through the same territory you already cleared, maybe with a new weapon, maybe with a piece of equipment that unlocks another area.

I also have a hard time going back and editing a story I've already written. Feels like a world I've already conquered.

The premise I'm writing against is a time travel story from the point of view of someone who isn't the time traveler. The antagonist is actually the time traveler and the POV character is experiencing the same few scenes over again with different variables changing. My goal is to reveal more and more about the POV character in each iteration, even as he is bombarded by the antagonist's more and more desperate attempts to gain his confidence.

It feels like a pretty neat idea, and I don't feel particularly bad about it yet, so I'll keep working at it. But as someone who doesn't care for walking over the same ground more than once, it is a bit of a challenge.

Wish me luck,

Liam