For ages now I've been trying to write a story about an astronaut in space that witnesses the end of the world by nuculear war. It's supposed to be a story that shows just how hopeless it is to see everything you've ever loved be destroyed, and be able to do nothing about it, not even be there. It's supposed to be a story about loneliness and despair, but I'm having a hard time writing it...
I've actually started to write the story several times, each time with a different approach. One of the versions is written as if it is the last journal-entry made by the astronaut, written some time after the destruction of earth, just as his shuttle is about to land back at the barren wasteland that is the new earth. This version however contained very little emotion, and ended up as a plain description of what happened, with cheap references to a lost family as the only way of provoking any sort of feeling from the reader. All in all, it was just another failed project.
If anyone has any tips or suggestions about how to get this story written, or how to go about it, please do tell me =)
Maybe, sometime in the future, I'll be able to write my space-story, with the right amount of emotion and a feeling of great loss provoked in the reader... Or maybe not, we'll see ;)
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