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A large blue circle with a red question mark and red lines running through it. It's surrounded by many blue oval-shaped objects, each with a red line running through it. They all sit in front of a purple-pink gradient. These objects all represent the various time travel paradoxes that can ruin a story.

Exploring How Time Travel Paradoxes Affect a Great Story

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CONTENTS Overview After jotting down all the ideas you want to explore in your story, you decide you want to incorporate time travel. While it’s popular, appearing in many stories across the fantasy genre, it is fraught with risk, especially if you don’t know what you’re doing. If done wrong, it can cause problems that […]

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Anarchy in fantasy depicts a lawlessness world. This image features a city with a castle on a hilltop above it. The city has both rectangular- and square-shaped buildings with a wavy roof on each one. The buildings come in four colors: light yellow, brown, light blue, and white. The roofs come in the following colors: dark blue, red, light black, and dark brown. Many of these buildings have windows and some have a visible door. The road itself runs down the middle of the image, swaying to the right and then the left, ending at the doorstep of the castle. The road also meets two others, one that runs to the left, and the other to the right. Behind the city is a grassy field with blades of grass scattered throughout. A river cuts through the field, meandering from the left edge to the right edge of the image. The castle itself is white with gray shadows. It has four red turrets and diamond-shaped windows. Smoke billows forth from the buildings and castle, as if they're on fire. The grassy field is yellow-orange and the sky is a pale yellow with gray clouds. The castle and town being on fire is an effect of the fantasy military and war. It can also be used for time travel in worldbuilding.

Breaking Down the Great Benefits of Time Travel in Worldbuilding

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CONTENTS Introduction All fantasy stories use themes to explore and expand upon topics such as nature and industry. The best ones use them to great effect and cleverly tie them into the lore of the worlds they’re set in. Themes help make worlds more interesting and using time travel in worldbuilding takes them to a

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