Recent content by CloudIX

I get what you're saying, but I didn't really have my own solution when I made the thread. My solutions came from everybody's perspectives that I got after asking the question in the first post. It was a culmination of everybody's answers including yours. The point of the thread was to get what...

Actually, this does have to do with a book that I'm writing, but also this is the writing discussion forum. So there were two points to this thread. Everything I wanted from this thread is in the first post. I never alluded to anything specific to make you conclude that this was a "I want to do...

If you take into account my paradox, sure. If I'd mentioned it in the first post and added it to the premise then people wouldn't be able to come up with their own stuff. The whole point of me coming up with the paradox in just one of my examples was to make his clairvoyance worthless. It's not...

I welcome any and all criticism. 1. This was more of a direct answer to the question, not a wise story decision. 2. You forgot one word. He will TRY to either stop me or escape. I say he cannot escape unless you introduce space travel or some other way to get off the planet, and I was going off...

I think the easier but less exciting ways are to either wait until he dies naturally, destroy the planet and everybody on it at the same time so that he cannot escape, or to somehow convince him to kill himself. If we're thinking about the future as realistically as possible, then it is a set...

I'm asking what the strategy would be to defeat an antagonist like this. If it were a prophecy, the answer would just be, "You don't."

If the antagonist knows everything that the protagonist will think and do before the protagonist even knows himself, how can he be defeated?

I think what I may do is have older self go through his original plot so that I keep what was my prologue or backstory, but instead of him bringing younger self into the future, I'll have him travel further back into the past to set off events sooner than they originally happened in order for...

Everything I've watched or read that has to do with time travel has the plot and character turn out to be something that couldn't change in the end and I'm over here trying to change my character's destiny. *sigh Admittedly, I still haven't watched the lego movie or the Phineas and Ferb movie...

Ah and this is why I posted here so thank you! I guess I hadn't really thought about it as memories, but in my head it made sense that the older self would know what the younger self is thinking when he thinks it and what he does when he does it since the the older self is presumably going...

These are awesome examples, thank you. I'll look into them for inspiration. The novel idea I've had (in as little detail as possible) has the protagonist and the antagonist as the same person but the protagonist and reader don't know that for most of the story. The antagonist and the rest of...

I'm wondering if there are any plots where the protagonist and antagonist are the same person. Obviously, this would probably have to do with something like cloning, time travel, or something similar. Are there other plot devices that would help this make sense? Any recommended readings would be...