#WordWeavers Apr 12: MC POV: Name 3 dangers that exist in your world. How do you protect yourself from them?
Well, in this timeline... there's police, sanitarium guards - and women in general.
I'll let you know if I figure out how to protect myself from *any* of them. 
Magical artifacts? 
Sarcastic animal companions?
Magical Time Travel?
Free to read?
Will they find the artifact before it can be used to change everything they've ever known?
#TimeTravelAuthors 11: Describe your antagonist
SECONDARY's an 'MC vs world' story. Jim eventually makes some actual long-term enemies, but at the start he's too insignificant to be worth attention.
He's already got enough problems, just trying to survive a world that diverged hard almost 6,000 years ago. A world that doesn't treat people like him all that well, anyway.
"Be a time traveller. Manage today's crisis. But strategize for tomorrow." - Futurist Jim Carroll
Downturns are not just economic events. They are stress tests for leadership.
When pressure builds, plans unravel. Priorities scatter. Noise takes over. People panic. That’s when some leaders retreat—shrinking their vision, delaying decisions, or hoping someone else will take the next step. But others stay grounded. They hold the line—for their teams, their strategy, and their purpose.
This is real resilience. Not slogans. Not survival But the ability to move across time—anchoring the present, while building for the future.
You have to be a time traveller: respond to the moment, while keeping your eyes locked on what comes next. Resilient leaders don’t just manage the current crisis —they hold it together until the future arrives.
Here’s what the data shows from past downturns:
- the most resilient organizations didn’t retreat into reactive cycles.
- they didn’t discard their long-term vision under short-term fear.
- they remained disciplined on costs and intentional on growth.
- they protected their people, their customers, and their momentum—not just their margins.
The fact is, while they managed the crisis in real time, they never lost sight of the bigger arc.
- they thought across multiple time horizons at once:
- they actively manage today.
- all while preparing for tomorrow.
- and positioning for the rebound that always comes.
They didn’t flinch. But they didn’t charge blindly either. They led with calm, communicated with transparency, and made decisions that reflected long-term confidence — not panic.
That’s the essence of future-ready leadership.
So as the pressure rises, the question is simple: Are you retreating—or reinforcing? Are you in one time zone or several?
Because the leaders who shape what’s next aren’t the ones with the boldest slogans. They’re the ones who stay clear, steady, and focused—while keeping one foot in the future.
Be a time traveller.
Manage the crisis.
But never stop building what’s next.
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Futurist Jim Carroll is sharing his insight on resilience and leadership in this series. You can find the full archive, as it unfolds, at https://tomorrow.jimcarroll.com
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#PennedPossibilities 639. Does your MC have any pets?
Jim tended to avoid attachments in our world. He preferred being self-sufficient.
In the new timeline, he has no resources to spare. (No resources at all, in fact.) Though that helps him realize how many attachments he was taking for granted.
#WordWeavers Apr 9: What's the most prevalent form of communication in your world besides talking face-to-face?
There are telephones and such in the new timeline. Analog, not digital... but they've had neural networks quite a bit longer than our world has. While something like Facetime is beyond their (commercial) state-of-the-art, voice commands and such are varied and reliable. And difficult to spam.
#TimeTravelAuthors 7: Color in your story
One obvious example is that the aesthetics of the culture occupying (what once had been) Europe are a lot more enthusiastic about color, and much less sensitive to clashes.
There are more subtle examples. Green eyes like Jim's are far less common, demographically. They also have cultural associations he hasn't learned yet...
#WordWeavers Apr 7: Does your MC have a secret? Can you give us a hint?
He has any number of things he'd rather not bring up about our history. Especially the exact degree to which women were subject to abuse in many cultures.
Then there are are things he wants to keep secret about himself. Like how utterly terrified he is - all the time. (Not that it isn't justified.) Others would be spoilers.
#WritersCoffeeClub 5: Sum up your current WIP in 5 words
Deep alternate history plus gender.
(I figure punctuation is free.)
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#TimeTravelAuthors 1: Non-serious intro to your #TimeTravel story?
The people who can time travel in my stories are all emotionally damaged. Non-serious isn't a motive to time travel.
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Magical artifacts?
Sarcastic animal companions?
Magical Time Travel?
Free to read?
Will they find the artifact before it can be used to change everything they've ever known?
#WordWeavers 30: What do your characters get nostalgic about? What triggers that?
Jim's lost his entire world. That's a lot to miss and grieve over. It's the little things, half-familiar, that get him the worst. Even lunch.
"Including sliced disks of a spicy meat so heartbreakingly close to salami that I had to fight back tears for a moment. Both Manayka and Atosho noticed, yet forbore from asking."
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Since I’m busy writing fantasy at the moment, I’m currently reading Queens of Ruin by Brenda Murphy. What’s in your hands today? 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XT55CF4
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WRITER FUEL: The grandfather paradox is just one of the thorny logical problems that arise with the concept of time travel. But one physicist says he has resolved them.
https://www.limfic.com/2025/03/28/writer-fuel-physicist-claims-to-have-solved-grandfather-paradox/
It's officially #baseball season, so I thought it was as good a time as ever to read Two In The Field by Darryl Brock. It's the follow-up to his time travel/baseball novel If I Never Get Back. I read the first book in my adolescence, and then enjoyed it again about a year ago, which is also when I discovered the sequel.
Admit it: "time travel" and "baseball" is not a plot combo you've seen before! Somehow, Brock makes it work.
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