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Gone Fishin'
When writing, I generally place my scene on terrain and usually default to a place like Earth or something similar. Give me a mountain, or a desert and I can imagine something happening here. This week though, I'm trying to challenge myself and go under water. I've written stories placed on ships, boats or even canoes but never explored under the water.
What a surprise when I started looking at Earth's water stats! About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water. There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth. Less than three percent of all this water is freshwater and of that amount, more than two-thirds is locked up in ice caps and glaciers.
When you look at sheer numbers, it's a bit astounding. Add the fact that humans have only explored and charted 5 percent of the ocean, there's a lot out there to be discovered! At the deepest, the ocean is around 7 miles deep. Yet we're only just developing ways to reach down into the deep in the last 50 years. Beyond the sunlight zone of 200 meters down, what is hanging out down there? Do I have your curiosity and imagination fired up? Me too! Worlds, characters and stories await down there, let's get the fingers flying and as always, Write On!
This month's question: What do you imagine lurks in the deep?
How do you use that in your writing?
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Excerpt: He watched her staring at her naked finger in horror, and knew instantly what had happened.
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Excerpt: She traced her finger in circles along the water, careful not to harm the bulb-eyed goldfish that swam around the sides of the circular bowl. Its world nestled in her lap. The vibrations on the surface hummed; she saw what I could not.
Excerpt: It took him a year to build up enough courage to ask Miranda out. They worked side by side in a Leeds call centre, and Bob fell for her sultry voice while she hoodwinked gullible homeowners into purchasing overpriced double-glazing. She was bubbly, attractive, and adventurous — the opposite of him. However, when he invited her to spend a weekend in Scarborough, she shocked him by agreeing.
Excerpt: As she tapped his shoulder, she asked, "Hey, what are you doing here?" She noticed he was shivering and then she saw a sign tied around his neck with a string.
Excerpt: I am wholly unacceptable to mingle with the pleasant vacationers that pass so casually. Some look down, then quickly look away. A few glances sometimes linger, not out of concern, but because I dare impinge on their walk this sunny morning. The saddest part is I don't care.
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Excerpt: The descent through the atmosphere slowed, and gravity gradually returned. Captain Harding Brougher stared out the shuttle's porthole, trying to pick out the water pumping station from the chopping waves. Hurricane Devon K had swept through the area the day before, cutting the station's communications with the outpost orbiting the planet Karon IV, 37,500 miles above.
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Excerpt: “What happened to us? The last thing I remember was this sound, then nothing until now.” I looked around the room as several people in suits were pushing keys on several keyboards. “What are they doing?”
Excerpt: Nascent colors softly streaked the dawn as the first rays of the morning sifted through the pale hued clouds. "Scooter," Mark called but the small salt and pepper Schnauzer was preoccupied with chasing a lingering seabird that had been sitting just above the salt-rimmed water line.
Excerpt: Mary was the first to wake up. She sat up on the couch she had spent the night on and looked around the room. Sleeping snuggled together her parents were but a big lump under their blankets, right next to her couch. The fire was nearly burnt down but the room was still warm. She got up with the intention to use the bathroom. It was then that she noticed her brother’s beady dark eyes open, staring into the void.
Excerpt: Save the ship, witch.
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This month's question: What do you imagine lurks in the deep?
How do you use that in your writing?
Answer below Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: Do you use duality/parallels in your writing?
Burning Thoughts  : Good stuff. The refrigerator example is a starker contrast than many I use.
If my story's intention is to raise a question for the reader's consideration rather than to offer a solution, then to give a sense of story completeness I will use a marker idea in the opening that will be referenced in the wrap-up.
The comparison may range from things-stay-the-same to something-has-changed-making-you-wonder.
TheBusmanPoet : I may and probably do but since I just write what comes out. It's anyone's guess.
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