Space junk and stretching science fiction

Oh my word, my brain is boggled. I have crisscrossing genres, sometimes sci fi, other times steampunk, then a moment later urban fantasy, and all rotating around one or two ideas that could go together, but then are teased apart into their own stand alone novel. Sheesh!

But perhaps that is how a new genre is born, something like urban fantasy steampunk evolves from an idea that just can't be separated. Is that osmosis, morphing, or asexual novel reproduction? hmm.

I winder then, how can a person even begin to write when they are backtracking as much as they are progressing forward?

Pretty far, I hope. I, like many other readers and fans of science fiction, can be skeptical and picky when it comes to an imagined future. For me, a new idea has to be possible, or, at least believable.

I've leaned on a friend of mine who is a physics WIZ, and he brought me back down to earth a few times on my outlandish fantasies, yet, maybe readers don't care if it can't be done, or the logic is skewed.

I'd still like to use these ideas. I'd like to share them and hear what people think. Maybe their eyes would light up with delight, or roll to the backs of their eye sockets with a disgusted groan, I dunno. But.... once upon a time Giant reptiles roamed the surface of the earth... Victorians were skeptical until their bones were uncovered (the dinosaurs, not the Victorian's bones). Rockets went to the moon, and the Earth is round, sea monsters have been photographed (even if it was a slimy log bobbing in the lagoon) or learned to be nothing more than a squid with giantism, so why not some of my ideas? I think I might just try.

What types of outlandish things might be implausible? Well… what would happened if humans started mining the moon? Would it spin off into space, come crashing down onto earth, turn out to really be made out of cheese like Wallace and Gromit discovered?

There are scientific facts to measure this and to answer these questions, yes, but it might not fit in to the plot. And another thing, I'm not sure what exactly happens to the discarded fuel tanks and lunar landers from rocket ships going up to visit the moon, but I do know that if they are left to orbit that cold rock, it is eventually going to get very cluttered.

It is partly this strange train of thought that gave me an idea, a while back now, for a sci fi novel. It's just that I didn't know it was going to be a YA title at that time. I had a great breakthrough on that old plot, combing it with two other old plots, and voila! I have a longer, funnier, and much more appropriate age level for this story line.

I'm glad to be working on it again. I hate unfinished business, loose ends, and wasted ink.

I'm thinking Space Junk might be a good title, then again, it might not. It's pretty blunt, even if that is what part of the theme centers around, but it's not the entire plot. lol. Thank goodness.