Hi!
I am not sure if I am allowed to write this here, and I should possibly just do my research on Google - problem is I'm not extremely clever and quite often need stuff explained as simple as possible
I am currently writing a story which is...oh, it's nice - I love it - it started out as some kind of shiny fairytale and has turned all dark and emo over just a few days.
It's about giant humanoid mice, who live in a kingdom that uses...something...to power their factories. This Something causes massive pollution though; the air is all thick and dangerous to breathe, the water turns into a thick, smelly ooze, animals and vegetation alike get sick and die, people get lung diseases and...well...die.
This is, in many ways, the main "bad guy" though that wasn't my original plan - and I realise suddenly that I have no idea what "it" is.
I need this thing to be the cause of above mentioned bad stuff - but I also need it to be possible to use and then purify the byproducts and use them as (for - an necessary - example) fertilizer.
So, on to my potentially silly question (I have never written anything before, so I am sorry if I am wrong)
Would I need to invent a new fuel that would behave like this, and give it a unique name - or should I go with the more relatable, real-world name of "coal"?
I don't know if coal behaves the way I need it to, because I know basically nothing about coal.
This is very vague, and I'm sorry, but...any immediate reactions/feelings - or someone with expert knowledge of something (coal or otherwise) that behaves as I need it to behave?
Thanks for reading!
I am not sure if I am allowed to write this here, and I should possibly just do my research on Google - problem is I'm not extremely clever and quite often need stuff explained as simple as possible
I am currently writing a story which is...oh, it's nice - I love it - it started out as some kind of shiny fairytale and has turned all dark and emo over just a few days.
It's about giant humanoid mice, who live in a kingdom that uses...something...to power their factories. This Something causes massive pollution though; the air is all thick and dangerous to breathe, the water turns into a thick, smelly ooze, animals and vegetation alike get sick and die, people get lung diseases and...well...die.
This is, in many ways, the main "bad guy" though that wasn't my original plan - and I realise suddenly that I have no idea what "it" is.
I need this thing to be the cause of above mentioned bad stuff - but I also need it to be possible to use and then purify the byproducts and use them as (for - an necessary - example) fertilizer.
So, on to my potentially silly question (I have never written anything before, so I am sorry if I am wrong)
Would I need to invent a new fuel that would behave like this, and give it a unique name - or should I go with the more relatable, real-world name of "coal"?
I don't know if coal behaves the way I need it to, because I know basically nothing about coal.
This is very vague, and I'm sorry, but...any immediate reactions/feelings - or someone with expert knowledge of something (coal or otherwise) that behaves as I need it to behave?
Thanks for reading!