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Luke_A_Somers comments on How to Write Deep Characters - Less Wrong Discussion

45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 June 2013 02:10AM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 18 June 2013 04:56:41PM 3 points [-]

I think that it's mainly that time travel plots seem a lot harder to write than they are.

Comment author: Lethalmud 26 June 2013 09:06:31AM 6 points [-]

Or, that because most of time travel in popular media make no sense whatsoever, people assume it must be very difficult.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 18 June 2013 05:52:07PM 6 points [-]

They're easier to have written before they're done than they are to start afterwards.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 18 June 2013 09:07:35PM 1 point [-]

This is true of an unsurprisingly large fraction of writing projects.