Episode 15 - Three Ways to Break Time: Writing Time Travel That Actually Works

Season 2 of Fictional Problems dives into time travel as a storytelling device: the three core types (predestination, plastic/malleable timelines, and multiverse), classic examples like Back to the Future and The Terminator, and why many time-travel plots fail.

The hosts discuss practical writing advice—how time travel moves information through a narrative, the ripple effects on characters and setting, and why keeping the device in service of character and consequence makes stories stronger.