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This week I am about to go on a bit of a personal quest. How does this relate to Action/Adventure? Let me explain...
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When this Newsletter arrives in your mailbox, I will be on the road for a bit of an adventure of my own. I will be away from my trusty computer for four whole days, sent out on a mission from work to install a few of our products and hopefully improve the quality of people's lives.
Whilst for my co-worker this is just another work trip, for me it takes courage to face this quest. A little over a year ago, because of experiencing anxiety attacks, I had difficulty even stepping on a bus and going to the supermarket. Indeed, even going around the corner to go to the post office or the little village shop made me feel nervous.
Since then, I have been on work trips all around the country, but four days is the longest I will have been from home since the anxiety attacks started. I will have to sleep in hotels and eat in restaurants, with no place to retreat and relax when I feel the need.
This, of course, made me think of an important aspect of Action/Adventure stories – we place our main characters in situations that will challenge them, that will take courage and present them with some difficulties. If they didn't need to be brave and show strength, if everything went smoothly for them, it would not make for a very interesting read.
Workwise, the first day will be the most difficult one – a long drive and two jobs to do, then face the dreaded restaurant and get some sleep. The second day it's another five hour drive and our final job, then another drive to another restaurant and an overnight stay.
On the third day, I have set myself a personal challenge. We will be in a part of the country I've always wanted to go to, a county called Cornwall. It's an important place in the Arthurian Legends as it has what's said to be the ruins of the castle where Igraine, Arthur's mother, used to live before she became the High Queen of Britain. There's also a cave called Merlin's Cave, which of course I will have to visit.
Part of the castle ruins are seperated from the main land by a steep and high bridge, surrounded by water. I'm afraid of heights, but am determined to overcome that to fulfill a childhood dream.
Merlin's Cave can only a accessed at certain times, depending on the tides. The sea at the back of the cave reaches further inland than at the front and one of my co-workers, who has been there before, says it's quite scary as sometimes you can hear the sea rush into the cave. Which probably means it's time to get out. I can't swim, but I am determined to go in there as well.
On the final day, I'd like to stop in Glastonbury on our way home and climb the Glastonbury Tor, also known as the legendary Isle of Avalon. This will be a physical challenge as it's a high hill.
I hope to come back from this trip knowing I have faced some of my fears and perhaps I will have gained some more self-confidence, experienced a bit of personal growth.
And that is something else that's important to any story- character development. We want to see the character learn and grow throughout their experiences and throughout the piece. At the very least, we want them to be affected by what they are going through, for better or for worse, because that is what would happen in real life.
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This week, first of all I thought I'd include a piece I wrote about the place I am about to visit:
My second item of choice is about facing your fears:
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My third item of choice is a wonderful story I read about a week ago:
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Which is related to this work in progress, which I really enjoyed as well:
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Last but not least, the adventures of a very brave little girl:
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williampadgett - Biographies are right on, Kittiara
Not only does this reader get involved with action and adventure thorugh biographies, but also gets to see events played out in the real life framework that is so familiar to each of us.
There's nothing quite like riding through life with Teddy Roosevelt or experiencing the wit of Woodrow Wilson. These just keep on coming. Davy Crocket, both real and legend, Julius Caesar, Ghengis Khan, and so many others. I curled up with Plutarch and his lives of great Roman generals many a night in my High School years.
Anyway, this is an excellent subject choice.
Thanks for the reminder in this excellent article.
-William
Thank you for your wonderful feedback! It inspired me to try the biographies of a few of the people you mentioned  .
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scribbler  - I'm actually doing a french class project on the french revolution. It's just so interesting :]
I agree! Thanks for your feedback and good luck with your project!
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cursorblock - Good newsletter. So many great stories from history are just waiting, and wanting to be written. I'm glad you brought light to that.
Making history exiting is a good way to get people interested in it and hopefully learning from the mistakes and successes of the past.
I fully agree! Thanks so much =).
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schipperke - Hey Kitti! Great newsletter. I haven't really 'gotten' into biographies, maybe I will give it a shot.
That's great . I hope you will enjoy them. Thanks for the feedback!
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karabu - I agree that sometimes real events are more interesting than fiction. I'm reminded of "The Right Stuff". As is usually the case, the book is much better than the movie. And that was a great movie. 
I haven't read that one, but now I will have to . Thanks so much!
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Hope you all have a lovely week!
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