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Who added mine?

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Psh, it was very good. If you want to read horror, read my first one.

Could I get a link, NiK?

My greatest failure

Why do you think it's bad?  I like it.

I think it was flawed in structure; I barely created butterflies, and I think I could have been more creative.

If I wrote it now, I would have had the Cuban Missile Crisis butterflied out, and had the Bay of Pigs be a success.

Also, I had JFK die in November for no apparent reason.

Yeah, that's been my main problem in writing TLs.  I have trouble creating the butterflies.

In one TL, I had no Great Depression, a drastically different view on Southeast Asia (which was capitalist), and still the world was pretty much the same.  I was totally clueless as to how to reflect the butterflies.

I hope to change that with my most recent TL, but I don't know.

Anyways, besides JFK getting killed for no reason, I thought it was a lot better than other ones I've seen.

What are "butterflies"?

[ej2mm15]

What are "butterflies"?

The butterfly effect.  The theory (well, it's proven science, but...) that all actions regardless of size can affect the future substantially.

For example, if Bobby Kennedy hadn't been assassinated, Barack Obama would never be President.  Bobby Kennedy would have been elected President in 1968, meaning Gerald Ford would never be President, meaning Jimmy Carter would never be President, meaning Ronald Reagan would never be President, meaning George H.W. Bush would never be President, meaning George W. Bush would never be President, meaning Barack Obama would never be President.

It's a very interesting and complex concept.  The ripples are usually far more subtle than that.

Oh, now I get it. Thanks.