Creating a shiny star effect

Hi,
Hope you're well.
The following is a link to a tutorial creating a diamond effect on a word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgHCiuehTwU&feature=related
At 4:35 into it, the author begins creating the shiny parts of the diamonds by drawing a path, copying it and then rotating the copy ninety degrees.
I'm having trouble just creating that first path the way it's done in the tutorial. First, it says to choose a brush of 17, make sure it's white, then switch to the pen tool and draw a straight white line. However, mine doesn't look like that, how it splays outs. I just get a straight white line. Then, when I try to tranform the copy by rotating it 90 degrees I get an error message saying "Could not rotate because the initial bounding rectangle is empty."
Can anyone help me create the shiny star shape that's been created in the tutorial?
Thanks very much!

The person made the path, right clicked on the path, selected stroke path with Brush and Simulate Pen Pressure checked. Then duplicated the layer and rotated the duplicated layer 90 degrees.
To get the simulate pen pressure to work, go to the brush panel under Shape Dynamics>Size Jitter and select Pen Pressure before you stroke the path.

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