Category: Ask The Author

This week Kirstie asks:
If you travel to your future, and talk to yourself there, do you remember the conversation when you go back, or do you forget it?

Great question! The answer depends on how time travel works in the way you’re imagining, and whether you are talking about your past self or your future self forgetting the conversation. Here are a few simple ways to think about it based on your past self time travelling.

1. Fixed Timeline (Nothing Changes)

• If time is set and nothing can be changed, then when you go to the future, talk to your future self, and come back, you would remember the conversation. It’s like the conversation was always meant to happen, so when you go back to the past, you already have the memory of it.

2. Mutable Timeline (Things Can Change)

• If time is changeable, your conversation with your future self could alter the future. However, since you have had the conversation with future you, this conversation would now be a memory for your past self, even though it happened in the future, it is in your past.

3. Parallel Universes (Different Realities)

• Another idea is that each time you travel into the future, you’re stepping into a new version of the timeline, like opening a new door. So, after you talk to your future self and return to your past, you might not remember the conversation because you’re back in your original reality, where that event never happened.

4. Twice Upon A Timeline (Cloned Time Traveller)

• If Zac Drummond were to clone himself and go to the future, then speak to his future self, his future self would have a past memory, however, if Future Zac hadn’t met younger Zac then gone back to the past, he would have no memory of any conversation.

I hope this helps answer the question is the best way I can. The reason there are so many answers, is because there are so many possibilities, and since I have not personally been to the future, I can only speculate as to possible outcomes based on logic.

Last week I asked you a a question: Should I keep Ask The Author or dump it from the newsletter.
I want to say thanks for everyone’s responses. 
Your comments have not gone unnoticed.

The votes have all been calculated and the result is… I am not going to get rid of it, but it will be changing in future.

Instead of removing it, I shall be moving it to the bottom of this newsletter, and changing it slightly. The option will still be there for you to Ask The Author, but it will no longer appear as a main article every single week, only when you want to send me a question.
I want to thank you for your comments, and I believe this change will help make the Time Trekkers Journal a better publication.

This weeks question

This weeks question is from:
MJ who asks
Q: 
How do you manage to have the time to write a newsletter and a book at the same time?

A: 
As you would expect, It helps that I don’t have the distractions of social media anymore, yay 🙂
Secondly, before the start of each week, I carve out writing time, newsletter time and rest time, in amongst my other family commitments, housework, etc.
I have a designated area for writing, so that family knows that I am “in the zone”.

I create content for the newsletter by doing the following:
– I take a notebook everywhere with me, and I note down what happened this week. On the rare occasions I forget my notebook, my pen runs out, etc, I take photos with my phone, and scroll through my photos folder at the end of the week when I am putting this newsletter together.
– I write about life experiences, for example, this week the fam and I went to a a national trust house this week where all the wifi was down, and I got to thinking just how my characters would cope if the internet went down in the future.
– I also take part in a monthly newsletter swap list with 12 other authors, and this means I have access to blurbs, books, and more, that I can copy / paste into the newsletter saving me time.
– I have the mobile apps for my writing software and newsletter software, and this means that when I am away from home and I think of something to go in the newsletter, I can just open the app, and put something into a draft, ready for saving me time at the end of the week.

Writing my books.
– I use Scrivener to write my books, and the mobile app is fantastic. It syncs with Dropbox, so whenever I have a thought, idea, some time to write on my laptop while away or in coffee shops, I can just pull out a device and start writing. When my study is back up and running, I shall then be able to use that writing space as a way to discipline myself.

I hope that answers your question MJ.

If you would like to “ask the Author” a question, please get in touch by emailing me at brettjackson@brettishbooks.com

This weeks question

This weeks question is from:
MJ who asks
Q: 
How do you manage to have the time to write a newsletter and a book at the same time?

A: 
As you would expect, It helps that I don’t have the distractions of social media anymore, yay 🙂
Secondly, before the start of each week, I carve out writing time, newsletter time and rest time, in amongst my other family commitments, housework, etc.
I have a designated area for writing, so that family knows that I am “in the zone”.

I create content for the newsletter by doing the following:
– I take a notebook everywhere with me, and I note down what happened this week. On the rare occasions I forget my notebook, my pen runs out, etc, I take photos with my phone, and scroll through my photos folder at the end of the week when I am putting this newsletter together.
– I write about life experiences, for example, this week the fam and I went to a a national trust house this week where all the wifi was down, and I got to thinking just how my characters would cope if the internet went down in the future.
– I also take part in a monthly newsletter swap list with 12 other authors, and this means I have access to blurbs, books, and more, that I can copy / paste into the newsletter saving me time.
– I have the mobile apps for my writing software and newsletter software, and this means that when I am away from home and I think of something to go in the newsletter, I can just open the app, and put something into a draft, ready for saving me time at the end of the week.

Writing my books.
– I use Scrivener to write my books, and the mobile app is fantastic. It syncs with Dropbox, so whenever I have a thought, idea, some time to write on my laptop while away or in coffee shops, I can just pull out a device and start writing. When my study is back up and running, I shall then be able to use that writing space as a way to discipline myself.

I hope that answers your question MJ.

If you would like to “ask the Author” a question, please get in touch by emailing me at brettjackson@brettishbooks.com

There are no questions this week.

There are no questions this week.