Wednesday, October 8, 2008

What could she be thinking?

I need help with the novel I'll be writing in November. Lilli, my protagonist, wants to time travel to the past. Nearly everyone she's told wants to know one of two things:

Why would anybody want to travel into the past?
... or ...
Wouldn't it be more interesting to go into the future?
So what reasons can anyone give for wanting to go either direction, instead of being satisfied to be here and now?

I need to know right away because Lilli thinks she's figured out what George Orwell knew and can get herself into the past without using his (or anybody else's) time machine. I don't want her to go until I find a way to go with her. After all, a character should share her thoughts with her author, don't you think?

2 comments:

anasalwa said...

Bonnie,
Perhaps Lilli wants to correct the mistakes in the past? Or to find out what actually happened then?

Bonnie Jacobs said...

Thanks for your input. I wrote the entire draft of the novel in November, so I know (now) why Lilli wanted to go into the past. I've started editing the novel and telling it from Lilli's first-person point of view, with "Letter from Lilli" as my working title.