Welcome to this year’s A-Z Blogging Challenge. My theme for this year is character prompts. Each day throughout April, you’ll find a new character prompt that relates to that day’s letter.
Day Seventeen: Q – Quantum Leap
Your character has a chance to time travel.
Do they do it? If not, why not?
If they do, do they choose to go backwards or forwards? Why?
What do they try to achieve while they are in the new time? Do they manage it?
What chaos does their action cause?
Can they fix it? Do they even try?
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Used to watch Scott Bacula in Quantum Leap and loved the show!
Hari OM
It was only a minute but what a minute it was. Now she entered it fully and found it already changed. How so? The cup should definitely have been in front of him. She just put it there…
Plan B. Shift by three minutes. Done. He entered the room back in real time… where was the blasted cup? This was impossible.
Wait, no. That must be it. She’d dialled back not forward. How could she not have noticed that having lived those minutes already? Do it again. One minute ahead. Just wait there, why not? What difference does a minute make? Keep eyes on the cup.
Where is he? The red end-session light blinked. In came the assessor. “Failed. You forwarded an hour. Now come back with me and we’ll start time again.”
YAM xx
I love this twist!
Time travel as a concept really intrigues me though I am not sure if I would be game to go on one. I guess thats why I read so many fantasy fiction books as they sate my urge 😉
Ooo time travel! I wrote my first short story with time travel in it for this year’s A to Z. I’m not sure if I’ll continue the story or not!
Jayden R. Vincente
Erotic Fiction Writer
Time travel – now there is a can of worms. Quantum Leap handled it in such an interesting way. Personally I think it’s best if we leave time well alone 🙂
Tasha
I agree, but I’d still be tempted though
Time travel! Wow! So many places to go and so many points of history to be at. But if it comes to one single pick, I’d want to see the exact moment of Big Bang (preferably witnessing the spectacle from the insides of a humongous spaceship stocked for fifty years at least)
Ooh fab choice!
Since nobody’s actually done it yet — okay, okay, nobody’s done it that we know of — there are a lot of stories about what would happen if someone went back in time and attempted to change the past. I think I’d be afraid of trying to change anything… but I’d certainly try to find a “safe” way to do so.
I was working on a series once called “Time Share.” A handful of men decide to separately go back in time using a machine that one of these men has invented. Each man wants to “save” a different woman. The women in each individual story would be based on someone from history, “based on” so the story could end any way I wanted it to. There’d be someone based on Jean Harlow, someone based on Anne Frank, someone based on Janis Joplin, etc. The only rule that the men had agreed on between themselves was that no one could try to save Marilyn Monroe, because if she were allowed, they’d all want to do it!
That sounds like a fab concept, love that they can’t save Marilyn to avoid the fight 🙂
These are such intriguing questions for character development and action!
Ann
Thank you 🙂
This is such a great idea to think about. I would definitely send someone into the future and bring back the technology! #AnythingGoes
Oh fantastic idea!
I love reading time travel novels – the Diana Gabaldan Outlander series is a particular favourite. They do tend to gloss over some of the less savoury parts of life in the 1600, 1700 and 1800’s though. I think I’d miss toilet paper and deodorant!
Leanne
Oh yes, me too! Think about the 1920s would by my limit haha
What a great idea! I’ve never read or seen Quantum Leap but I hear it was quite iconic!
#AnythingGoes
She travels back – to a time when here skill sets are the most useful. This is where I get stumped haha! x
Haha 😀
A very interesting plot to a story, time travel. Great questions to ask and answer for an interesting read. #anythinggoes
Oh I love such a sucker for the Time Travel theme… so many what ifs and rewrites. I love it! #AnythingGoes
Sounds intriguing and fun prompt X #anythinggoes
I’d forgotten about Quantum Leap the TV show, used to watch it a lot. Time travel could be so interesting! Anythinggoes
My character would go forward in time and witnesses their own murder. With a lack of help from others around her as no one believes her, she has to solves the clue to her murder before it happens…#anythinggoes
It’s fascinating to think that scientists believe time travel is possible, I can’t imagine it! I would like to go back in time and see relatives from the past and famous kings and queens #anythinggoes
It’s a baffling concept, but I’d like to think it was possible