{"id":839,"date":"2014-09-22T13:17:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=839"},"modified":"2014-09-22T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:17:40","slug":"claire-north-writing-on-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/claire-north-writing-on-time-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire North, Writing on Time Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some of you may know,\u00c2\u00a0Butterfly<\/em>, a novel<\/em><\/a> is tangentially about time travel.<\/p>\n

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Time Travel at 6am<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Claire North, author of the dazzling\u00c2\u00a0The Fifteen First Lives of Harry August<\/em><\/a>, has written a blog post for Waterstones<\/a> about just that very subject, since her book has a slightly different take on time travel than the usual “hop in a machine\/Delorean and visit the past or future” bent.<\/p>\n

It’s a good read about the problems every writer faces when thinking about writing about time travel. While\u00c2\u00a0Butterfly<\/em> involves a machine and is of the (slightly) more traditional time travel narrative, it also doesn’t harp on that fact. Like Ms. North mentions:<\/p>\n

“However, the stories we write are still stories about people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c perhaps people beset on all sides\u00c2\u00a0by<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0paradox and physics, but still people. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Butterfly<\/em> has always been about, first and foremost, the people: William Murphy, retired professional hockey player, Laura, his wife and now breadwinner for the family, their daughter, Sadie, Germaine, William’s ex-teammate and childhood buddy, and a venue that approaches time travel from yet another point of view, Old Sturbridge Village<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But while you’re waiting for\u00c2\u00a0Butterfly<\/em> to come out, go read Claire North’s blog post<\/a>, and then hit the library or your local book shop to pick up\u00c2\u00a0The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As some of you may know,\u00c2\u00a0Butterfly, a novel is tangentially about time travel. Claire North, author of the dazzling\u00c2\u00a0The Fifteen First Lives of Harry August, has written a blog post for Waterstones about just that very subject, since her book has a slightly different take on time travel than the usual “hop in a machine\/Delorean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly","category-nonsense","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}