Action/Adventure: July 05, 2006 Issue [#1130]
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

Life without action is static, and by necessity, it would therefore be dead. Action writing takes the normal and shares it for all to live vicriously.

Adventure is the spice: the exciting, adrenalin-pumping, thrill that makes one feel so alive. Everyone has an adventuresome spirit. Maybe dreams of excavating some long-lost treasure, visiting a new country, or trying a new flavour of potato chip. *Wink* Some of us prefer our adventures to come between the pages of a book, and many of us like to write that adventure.


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Letter from the editor

*Exclaim* E.L.E. *Exclaim*

** Extinction Level Event **


An extinction level event is when a large number of species die out in a short space of time.

Has anyone noticed the amount of programmes over the last 5-10 years, which have focussed on the end of the world or masses of the population? Quite fascinating when you think about it. Makes you wonder whether there's a fortune to be made by hopping aboard that creative writing train. *Wink* I am sure there is for those who can strike upon the original storyline and suitably believeable end-of-the-world disaster.

Let's just take a little look at what has been done. I've probably forgotten more than a few, so feel free to add them via feedback.

Asteroids/meteorites headed for earth ~ Deep Impact, Armageddon

Global warming/Ice age ~ Day After Tomorrow

Super storms ~ Category 6 : Day of Destruction, Category 7 : End of the World

Earth mechanical failure/Gamma Radiation ~ The Core


Usual scenarios beside those listed above are: disease, nuclear winter/war, volcano, seismic, and aliens.

The interest in how the world might end is a current and topical subject. There are very real concerns today - bird flu pandemic, increasingly unusual or unseasonal weather patterns, natural disasters of sizeable proportions, the ever-present 'threat' of someone pushing the 'big red button'...

I am sure you could all come up with your own version of the world's demise. Oh, but such a morbid topic! It just so happens, it tends to be an entertaining one too, when translated to film, television, or reading material.

Keep writing, keep living.
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Ask & Answer

*Note1* Good one, Pudi *Cool*. You are wise in the ways of the Action Sequence.
billwilcox


         *Blush* Thank you!

*Note1* Thanks for using "Henry's PlungeOpen in new Window.. It was a fun story to write, but people seem to love it or hate it, not much in between. I'm glad you enjoyed it enough to include it in this newsletter. *Laugh* Henry's adventure and action was a bit different than that of a typical "hero." ~~ Viv
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I definitely had a great giggle at your story, Viv. I love a fun read. There's no reason why Action/Adventure has to be all guns, death and scary thrills.

*Note1* You have been giving some great tips on the way and how to write items that we may be haing a hard time with, I would just like to say keep up the good work. Plus I hope your creatived jusic spills over on to all of us and we get the right words just lik, you have in the past and hopfuly in the days to come also.
Chon Love Author Icon


         Thank you. *Delight*

*Note1* Puditat,
Thanks for yet another wonderful newsletter. I have one question though, we are always told not to let the writing slow the action down. Wouldn't an extended reflection like this slow the pace?
Thanks,
Nighala a.k.a. Doxie Do-Right Author Icon


         Absolutely, I agree. Do not slow the action down.

Some of the information in my example would possibly come elsewhere in the story, but I wanted to demonstrate the ideas in one short piece. Description is necessary in an action scene.

         In the first example I gave, there was no connection with Jed - no sympathy or concern over what happened to him. The second example creates this effect. Also, description can be used to heighten the tension and mood. We can picture someone being stabbed, but by drawing out the moment, the reader is allowed to see, feel, hear, and taste the experience (depending what descriptors the author gives).

         There is definitely a balance to achieving the mood without overloading narrative. Strictly speaking the balance probably lies somewhere between my two examples. *Wink*

*Note1* I think your example in the beginning was quite good. However, I think the second one had too many details and descriptions. It was better than the first of course but it was too lengthy in my mind to describe a short experience.
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         Further to my comments just above... I am, by nature, a descriptive writer, and I bring that influence to my newsletters. *Wink* What suits some writers will not appeal to others, and this goes for readers, too. Thank you for the feedback. *Delight*

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