 Action/Adventure: August 11, 2021 Issue [#10919] |
This week: To Stay Or To Go Edited by: Storm Machine  
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“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“When leaving becomes an option staying becomes a choice”
― Malaika Gilani |
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Adventure is another word for finding what else is out there. The thing is, none of us really knows what it is that we're looking for or what we might find.
The opposite is the person who stays in the same street their entire life, who doesn't move and doesn't find new ways to go and exist. That person might work in the same job their entire career. Risk-adverse people are everywhere, and they only seem to move when you push them. You being the writer can change the entire story by having other people or events push the person out of their comfort zone- whether it is the job or the family or the place or all of the things that they cling to.
As writers we strip away all of the things that are meaningful to characters in order for them to grow, but we are often introverts and we do not do the same character-building things for ourselves. Partly because it is hard. Changing to something you don't know and can't understand is such a difficult task, whether it is to be part of a new family or a new job or a new location.
The choices we make for our characters are supposed to mean something. So dig deep- the reader appreciates it when they see that the opening scene reflects something else in the story. That the reason the pain had to be there was so that there could be better things later.
But what happens when you don't have better things later? What happens when the things that you thought you needed in the story were just things happening and they didn't further the plot and characters toward your goals? And what does that even look like?
The hardest part about all of these things is deciding exactly what needs to be in your story, happening to your characters, changes in your world. Sometimes it's as hard to change a plot feature as it is to move to another state. We get so carried away in our creations.
But do outside eyes ever give us what we really need? I know we all seek that validation to say that we're good enough, this project is amazing, and it isn't just our mothers that will go out and buy it. We all want these things to mean more for us, and to get through what we thought we could do for what is real and what works.
I wish I could tell you how to get there, but sometimes it feels as much luck as anything else. But believe in yourself, and keep your eyes focused on the end product, and it'll get there. If you believe on it and keep working for it. |
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Beholden 
In the last months of my time in school, I read a book entitled The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley. The weather and the plot in this book are so tightly woven together that, together, they create enormous tension that explodes in the devastating finale. Basically, warm, dry weather becomes increasingly hot and humid throughout the book, while the plot, initially quiet and inoffensive, grows steadily more turbulent and ominous. When the weather breaks in a powerful storm, so does the story, resulting in a dramatic crescendo with a power that would not be present had the weather been merely incidental.
I confess to having used this device in short stories on occasion.
That's an awesome use of the rain!!
Monty 
My favorite thing about the rain is that it brings back memories.
I love that, too.
Elfin Dragon-finally published 
For me, my favorite thing about rainstorms has always been the lightning. In Oklahoma, the lightning was often across the clouds like long points of light connecting the dots across the sky. In Arizona the lightning was from the ground to the sky, creating spectacular shows of streaks on the night sky.
That's beautiful.
Tell me this month how you know if it is time to stay or to go. |
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