 Action/Adventure: November 13, 2024 Issue [#12830] |
This week: Collecting Trophies Edited by: Annette  
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Collecting Trophies
Some of the most famous adventurers in fiction should perhaps be relabeled as searchers. That is because many of them embark onto perilous voyages not for the people they can meet along the way. They don't go to the Africa because it's warm. They don't go to the Amazon jungle because it's muggy. They definitely don't go digging through dusty pyramids to test out their breathing equipment.
Adventurers are always looking for something. In movies and stories, it's often an artifact. Something old or at least significant to a culture that is different from that of the adventurer.
The reason why the travels to find those artifacts are called adventures is because the person who is searching for something has to carefully get across rickety bridges over deep gaps. They have to take planes, boats, and off-road vehicles or even horses to get to where they expect to find their prize.
Many stories end once the artifact is in the adventurer's possession. Or once the adventurer returns to their country of origin and shows it off. Those endings are usually quite anti-climactic. There is often no history lesson attached to the artifact. Or the reason someone wants to have it is only so that someone else can't have it.
As writers of action/adventure stories, don't forget to tell the readers why we should care about an artifact. How is finding that artifact relevant to the characters? To humanity? To the reader's life even?
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Replies to my last Action/Adventure newsletter "Traveling on Foot" that asked Which side are you on? "It's all about the destination." Or. "It's all about the journey."
Sum1's In Ft Lauderdale  wrote: Annette, I'm with you. The adventure begins the moment I leave our house. I've traveled all over, more than many, not as much as some. It's never the same, is it? There's always something different about each trip. Even if you return to a place you've already been to, it's never the same.
Also, thank you for featuring "Where In The World Is Sum1?" in your newsletter this week!
The amount you get to travel is definitely a lot more than most. I understand that you do it for work. So it's not like you're only out for fun.
Monty  wrote: Thank you for a good NL.
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