Saturday, November 10, 2007

Shooting Star

Let my writing skills go to work.

I am a star. No one know the coldness that I face- Wait. Let me backtrack. If you are a Hollywood actress agreeing furiously with me right now, put down this book. That isn't the type of star I mean. I am talking about a start in sky, and there's nothing colder than outer space.


-eye twitch- You know, sometimes these things just pop into you head. Now I'm going to have to spend time thinking of the important things, like 'plot' and 'characters' Would you name a star? Do stars even have names? If stars in space don't have names how do you identify them from another star? Why would a star write and publish a book? What problems can stars even face? Gah! Too many questions. Now this is goign to haunt for a while, because I'm not going to sleep until I can answer all of those questions. -_-;

1 comment:

Neo said...

Nikki, stars do have names. Usually they're something like 'Beta 10' or 'Oxy Max' or '40 degrees above Horizon', stuff like that. I could imagine stars having normal-y-er names though, just don't make them all English.

Problems stars face? Nikki! Don't you know your science? They can explode, become black holes, run out of energy, all kinds of things.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
subjects/astronomy/stars/lifecycle/
stardeath.shtml

and

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/
htmltest/rjn_bht.html

Those are the 'realistic' problems. The Greeks and the Egyptians thought the gods were in the planets and stars, watching over them.

The Japanese (http://www2.gol.com/
users/stever/orion.htm) also had star myths, along with the South Africans (http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/
show/conWebDoc.356)

Almost all civilizations have star myths, if not all. You could make a plot based off of these. You could even make your star a comet (http://www.nineplanets.org/
comets.html) or a meteor (http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/
meteorites.html) and have it fall to earth.

BTW on the prologue: In sentance 2, it's 'backtrack' not 'backtrace'. In the last sentence, 'outerspace' is two words.