Planet Be

writing exercise: How far can I get plotting out my story if I write it as a fairy tale? Doing so will repeat details already included in this blog.

Once upon a time Thrice upon 3 times Once upon 3 times there were 3 planets, Planets A, B, and C. The person writing this story & those of you I'm telling it to are on C. Our planet is C because it comes third chronologically. The story is once upon 3 times.

Once upon a time a long time ago Planet A was in trouble. The intelligent beings on A were not unified. Their history was full of exploitation, conquering, genocides, suffering, and diseases. Most people on A felt that they were good, and those they loved were good, but that there were many others who could not be trusted. Feelings of distrust prevented the cooperation that would be necessary for the planet to survive. This dilemma is well known yet remains unfulfilled for decades, and then more than a century.

To reach an audience on my own Planet C, I must make decisions to make the text accessible. I am using a language that makes sense to us, choosing terms of measurement widely understood by us. When necessary I will use our metric system. When I reference time I will speak of seconds and minutes and hours and days and weeks and months and years and decades and centuries. There is no way for me to know for certain the exact equivalents for any of these on Planet A. I just know that, like us, they measured time and they measured distance and height and temperature and all the things that we also measure. If I told you they purchased their nutritious liquids in vlork-sized containers, do you need to know how many milliliters that is? I think it's simpler to translate vlork as liter. That's not the word anyway. Their language is not expressible in a human alphabet.

On Planet A there are billions of intelligent beings, all of one species. There are many other species of varying intelligence levels but only one that developed complex languages that facilitate civilizations. The ancient history of A is not fully understood. The oldest surviving records are believed by most scholars to be mythological, although a great many of the intelligent beings follow ancient texts as moral instructions from immortal deities.

END FOR TODAY. I HOPE TO CONTINUE ON IN THIS SIMPLISTIC FORMAT FOR PLOTTING PURPOSES. THAT IS, IF I DECIDE, UPON REFLECTION, THAT THIS FEELS WORTHWHILE.