 Action/Adventure: September 29, 2010 Issue [#3984] |
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This week: Adventures in Outer Space Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading  
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Greetings! Welcome to this week's edition of the WDC Action & Adventure Newsletter
Each day is a blank page, an adventure to be written, action and re-action ~ be pro-active. Writing itself is action ~ creating an adventure for your readers to embrace in prose or verse. I'm back again in search of adventure and hope you will share with me this exploration and maybe create one of your own in prose or verse.
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Greetings, fellow Adventurers ~
"I hope they don't flush when they fly over our house," Nick commented as the space station appeared over the horizon, its path weaving a diagnonal that would take it right overhead. Appearing larger than Jupiter to its north, the shuttle seemed to weave from port to starboard and back.
"By the time it hit here, would just look like a large plop of pigeon stuff," Tom replied, laughing.
"More likely, passing through the stratosphere, it would mutate with some interesting specimens and take flight, hitting one of those space disks the NASA guys have been buzzing about."
Yes, we watched as the space station flew overhead in mid-September, carving an arc across the twilight sky. It did appear to wobble a bit and was signaling portside with an occasional red blink visible to the naked eye. What was it signaling, a left turn? another craft? or were they opening a hatch to flush? It would be a fun adventure to explore, sailing across the open sky. I say sailing because space travel incorporates nautical terms.
Space adventures are no longer the stuff of 'B' movies, 'Twilight Zone', and you don't need to be 'Superman' to soar high above Earth's atmosphere. I think space adventures are a near-time reality that we will be able to experience in our lifetime, given enough cash or a lack of aversion to going steerage with compressed oxygen in the luggage hold of a commercial shuttle.
Today, writing space adventures is more the stuff of potential reality than fantasy. If we can imagine it, we can make it happen. That's the stuff of invention and the craft of writing an adventure in the ocean that is outer space.
Space adventures can be comic or ethereal. Consider the websites offering tours to space, or journeys to the space station. Tourism, politics, or just a good downright adventure for adults and kids in zero gravity. Do you hear each other speak or do you invent a signaling system? How do you replenish your oxygen if your tether comes loose? Can you hear a scream in space?
Have a plan of attack, not necessarily a battle, but a challenge to overcome and in the success (or failure) effect a change in the universe, or maybe just our world.
To make your space adventure real for your readers, learn and incorporate some nautical terms. Here are but a couple that relate to our experience above:
 Port The left side of the boat when looking forward. Also called 'red.' When sailing at night, your red light lets other boats know the location of the left side of your vessel. So we knew the shuttle was moving forward, not backing up.
Starboard The right side of the boat when looking forward. Also called 'green.' When sailing at night, your green light lets other boats know the location of the right side of your vessel. So why didn't we see a green light? Is it possible the space station was trying to stay out of sight of something coming from the moon (just about to rise when it flew over our house)? There's something for your adventurer to consider.
A believable space adventure incorporates good science, which is relatively easy to find online, much of it understandable even for those of us not rocket scientists. Leading to some creative adventures that blend reality with possibility.
A good space adventure offers depth of sensory experience, engaging sight, touch, smell, and sound (if you do hear a scream in space, or a crack in the hull), incorporating a sense of wonder with reality's potential. Large portions of any space adventure will take place aboard a spacecraft. Though there is no need to be overly concerned about science in your creation of the spaceship, remember the nautical terms. Your ship can be a military vessel, a space yacht, or perhaps the mass transportation of the future. It can be lavish or stark. This is up to you and the direction you want to go with your story. In a space adventure it's the adventurers and their action that carry the story, give meaning to the adventure.
And, a space adventure, writing it and reading it, should be fun. Why not give it a try, and if you do I hope you enjoy the ride, both as pilot and passenger (whether or not you've stowed away).
Here's a place you can start, or revisit for some information on the spacestation and some of the real adventures that have already taken place and perhaps guide your keyboard to pen one of your own
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Until we next meet, may your adventures be a joy to create and fun to revisit!
Write On!
Kate
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