Planet-Hopping
Oct. 12th, 2008 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatThis post is devoted to three of the more detailed planets I invented while in elementary school: Kravoo, Hoosshka Boosshka, and Nvxton.
Kravoo was, basically, a planet the size of a galaxy, and was known for its mineral deposits. I didn't do too much with it as a kid, but I returned to the idea when I took a creative writing course in college, and tried to come up with some explanations for stuff I hadn't really considered when I was younger. I often preferred writing descriptions of fantasy lands and alien planets to actually coming up with plots, and this turned out to be one of those descriptions. I'm not sure what I did with what I wrote in college, but if I can ever hunt it up (and that might not be for a long time, mind you), I might post it here, if anyone is interested.
The name of Hoosshka Boosshka was just a bit of nonsense I made up, and occasionally exclaimed when I was frustrated. It's located in the Galaxy of Kawoosshka, which I initially considered to be a galaxy overlapping the Great Galaxy, but I later decided should really be the same galaxy. I didn't initially spell these words with the double S, but I thought that was a way to make them look weirder. Anyway, I had grand plans for a story about my class visiting Hoosshka Boosshka, but I only ever wrote very small parts of this story. I had plans to incorporate a whole host of creatures based on stuff I'd recently learned, or obscure inside jokes. For instance, my dad once saw a car containing a guy and a dog, and said it initially looked like a man with a dog's head driving a car, so there was going to be a dog-headed man on this planet. Other characters I remember dreaming up included a lung-fish, a man made of gold who was an expert on treasures, an elephant who led the military for the great walled nation of Kooska, and Crud Copy. This latter character was an inside joke that I don't think anyone else on the inside would have gotten. When I was a kid, I was in my school district's gifted program, which was called DEEP. When I was in third or fourth grade, my DEEP class had a newsletter called "DEEP News," and every week someone would help the teacher make it. When I was one of the people helping out, he said we could keep what he called "the crud copies," a term that I found really amusing for some reason. (Honestly, I still kind of like it.) The logo for the newsletter was an eagle with a speech balloon containing the letter's name, so, as a joke, I drew a poorly-conceived bird saying, "Crud Copy." Later, I decided that this bird should be NAMED Crud Copy, but I don't remember too much else about the character, other than that he was always nibbling on his own furniture.
Nvxton was the setting of a story I wrote in sixth grade. I had to write a Christmas story, and I liked writing about alien worlds, so I came up with "Christmas on Nvxton." Why this alien civilization would celebrate a holiday with the same name as one of ours presumably wasn't something I considered. Anyway, in order to celebrate this holiday, the King of Nvxton built an amusement park, but it ended up coming to life and terrorizing the planet. I also remember that traditional Christmas foods on this planet included ice cream covered cheese biscuits and something involving algae. When another kid in my class edited the paper, she said that I'd misspelled "biscuits" and "algae," when I'd actually gotten them right.
Kravoo was, basically, a planet the size of a galaxy, and was known for its mineral deposits. I didn't do too much with it as a kid, but I returned to the idea when I took a creative writing course in college, and tried to come up with some explanations for stuff I hadn't really considered when I was younger. I often preferred writing descriptions of fantasy lands and alien planets to actually coming up with plots, and this turned out to be one of those descriptions. I'm not sure what I did with what I wrote in college, but if I can ever hunt it up (and that might not be for a long time, mind you), I might post it here, if anyone is interested.
The name of Hoosshka Boosshka was just a bit of nonsense I made up, and occasionally exclaimed when I was frustrated. It's located in the Galaxy of Kawoosshka, which I initially considered to be a galaxy overlapping the Great Galaxy, but I later decided should really be the same galaxy. I didn't initially spell these words with the double S, but I thought that was a way to make them look weirder. Anyway, I had grand plans for a story about my class visiting Hoosshka Boosshka, but I only ever wrote very small parts of this story. I had plans to incorporate a whole host of creatures based on stuff I'd recently learned, or obscure inside jokes. For instance, my dad once saw a car containing a guy and a dog, and said it initially looked like a man with a dog's head driving a car, so there was going to be a dog-headed man on this planet. Other characters I remember dreaming up included a lung-fish, a man made of gold who was an expert on treasures, an elephant who led the military for the great walled nation of Kooska, and Crud Copy. This latter character was an inside joke that I don't think anyone else on the inside would have gotten. When I was a kid, I was in my school district's gifted program, which was called DEEP. When I was in third or fourth grade, my DEEP class had a newsletter called "DEEP News," and every week someone would help the teacher make it. When I was one of the people helping out, he said we could keep what he called "the crud copies," a term that I found really amusing for some reason. (Honestly, I still kind of like it.) The logo for the newsletter was an eagle with a speech balloon containing the letter's name, so, as a joke, I drew a poorly-conceived bird saying, "Crud Copy." Later, I decided that this bird should be NAMED Crud Copy, but I don't remember too much else about the character, other than that he was always nibbling on his own furniture.
Nvxton was the setting of a story I wrote in sixth grade. I had to write a Christmas story, and I liked writing about alien worlds, so I came up with "Christmas on Nvxton." Why this alien civilization would celebrate a holiday with the same name as one of ours presumably wasn't something I considered. Anyway, in order to celebrate this holiday, the King of Nvxton built an amusement park, but it ended up coming to life and terrorizing the planet. I also remember that traditional Christmas foods on this planet included ice cream covered cheese biscuits and something involving algae. When another kid in my class edited the paper, she said that I'd misspelled "biscuits" and "algae," when I'd actually gotten them right.
