Sister: why don’t you write about a plankton
me: oooooh
does the plankton kill somebody?
Sister: ooo…i don’t know
me: maybe the twin sister could die of plankton poisoning
does that happen?
Sister: but krill sometimes kill phytoplankton
harmful algal blooms
like the movie the birds
me: huh?
SIster: they were crazy from a toxin called domoic acid
me: it don’t remember that part
Sister: krill - they’re a type of zooplankton
and they eat phytoplankton
me: these are all very tiny things right
like they couldn’t kill someone’s twin sister?
Sister: yea…and domoic acid is made by phytoplankotn
me: oh so they could make the birds crazy
Sister: if she ate fish that had domoic acid it in ..yea maybe
me: and the birds could kill the sister
hmmmm
does that happen often?
Sister: look up harmful algal blooms and neurotoxins…
sure it happens…but we have monitoring programs
that watch out for this stuff
me: i think i will just have them all die of aids
Sister: o okay
aids works…
Writing a Novel in 30 Days with Plot Help from My Sister the Oceanographer
Posted by – November 4, 2009

