There are many different kinds of time travel story templates:
- travel to the past with the intent to change it
- travel to the past to prevent it from being changed
- travel to the past as a tourist
- travel to the future
- travel from the future
I’m sure you can name more.
Interacting with Time may have different rules:
- you change the timeline and it affects your present (Back to the Future)
- there is only one timeline, ever (The Time-Traveler’s Wife)
- you can go back and try again if you messed up (Alex Wayfare, Recursion)
- you only get one chance
- grandfather paradoxes will happen
- grandfather paradoxes won’t happen
What is your favorite kind of time travel?
Watch this gathering of 14 contributors from across all three volumes of THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE anthologies as we discuss our short stories, other time travel stories, time travel in general, and more! (Find me at the 19′ mark.)