G’day again! I hope you”re all enjoying your Sunday so far.
Once again I’m taking 6 from my NaNoWriMo novel from this year, The Rogue, wholly raw and unedited. I this “scene” (I use the term loosely for this draft!), Some local church goers have just heard rumours about the approaching rogue planet.
Father Dominic was very concerned upon hearing the rumours. One of his parishioners, David Smythe, although a firm believer, was interested in the more scientific aspects of the heavens, owned his own rather powerful telescope. It was probably the largest amateur telescope in the USA and it could see some of the faintest celestial objects visible from the ground. When he first heard about the Rogue he thought he should be able to see it with his telescope but was disappointed. He felt that if the Spitzer Infra-red space telescope could see it, his telescope should be able to see it too.
Unfortunately for Mr Smythe, he could not see the rumoured Rogue planet, but this did not deter him from spreading false information about it.
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Very interesting and intriguing…
Hmmm. 😉
Thanks!
I want to read more. Thanks so much for this!
Thanks for your comment, Tory! 🙂
Spreading rumors is not a nice thing to do. This is interesting, Richard.
Hopefully good fuel for conflict later on. 😉
A very well observed comment on how those in authority feel they MUST express an opinion, even if completely ignorant of the subject. Quite a scary six. 🙂
Thanks, Elin. Well spotted! The scariest part for me was realising how bad that chunk of text really is. Rewrite, here we come!
Congrats on winning NaNo! I don’t think I like this Mr. Smythe. Spreading information that can’t be verified can lead to all kinds of trouble.
Cheers, Kate! You too. 🙂
What’s a good story without someone to hate? 😉