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Have you ever been on a roller coaster that felt a little too wild? I'm adventurous, but wowsa, sometimes they get a little too crazy for me. I've linked a fun idea, alpine roller coasters. You get to ride a rail but many of them have a little brake you can slow yourself down.
The video not only shows you the idea of the coaster, but you get to hear some of the vernacular the reviewer uses. This can be handy if your character has some expertise that you might not. Not only that, watching a video helps you describe the setting more accurately. This works not only for amusements, but other activities as well. Some examples would be skiing, waterslides, river tubing...you get the idea.
So if your characters are going on adventure that you might not enjoy, watch a few videos to get ideas! Enjoy!
This month's question: Do you use videos to help your description process?
How do you use that in your writing?
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MAY SITE CONTEST
Character Prompt for May 2025:
Write a story where a character who finally achieves the lifelong goal they've
been working toward. What did they just achieve, and what do they do next?
Excerpt: The best coffee beans in the world are Tanzanian Peabody. No joke. Grown in the shade at Mt. Kilimanjaro. Of course, this fool wanted those beans. Who was I to tell him no? I love a good adventure.
Excerpt: Old Fraidy Cat was my Mama's cat, although I held the belief that he belonged to me. Actually, whether I, or my mama, knew it or not, Old Fraidy Cat was his own cat.
Excerpt: When it comes to otherworldliness, this is one prolific genre.
Excerpt: I sat silently, the weight of years heavy on my chest. My fingers brushed absently over the arm of my chair as I gazed through the one-hundred-year-old windows framing the world.
Excerpt: I've seen some unusual things at the local library, but yesterday was one for the books, no pun intended.
Excerpt: “How does he run that fast?” one boy gasped, panting heavily.
“Must be a trained thief,” the second boy replied between breaths, grinning despite his struggle.
Excerpt: He nodded once, then reached forward, and touched the crystal.
The chamber erupted in light.
Excerpt: An ocean breeze brought traces of saltwater and seaweed to my nose. I stood up, turning toward the invisible intruder wiping my sweat drenched hair from my face.
Excerpt: Dr. Elara Voss was elbow-deep in a tangle of air valves when her workshop’s comm pinged. She ignored it—probably another city official whining about Leap Pack noise violations. But the ping persisted, and the caller ID flashed “SkyPulse Aeronautics.” Curious, she wiped grease off her hands and answered.
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This month's question: Do you use videos to help your description process?
How do you use that in your writing?
Answer below Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Action/Adventure Newsletter (April 9, 2025)" question: Who knew?
Sum1  : Well, I've never really ridden a horse, except at the State Fair, then it was just in a circle. Does that count? I didn't think so. We didn't have the money to ride horses, too expensive. I probably could have in my senior year of HS, I made my own money then. All my friends weren't excitred about that idea and gave it no thought. Remember, Band, Music. That was our interest.
Monty  : Set saddle a lot. Never knew all those names.
Cubby  : Anytime I do research, it's like a chain reaction. I find something interesting which leads me to looking up something else, which sometimes leads to yet another interesting fact. Eventually, I'm way off track! But I'm more knowledgeable in the long-run. 
Nixie 🦊 out sick  : Thanks for featuring my FF story.  I had to laugh at the saddle depiction. I sure could have used it when I took horseback riding lessons off campus in my freshman year. I had no trouble acing the written exam. When it came to the actual saddling of the horse, I was so nervous I was struggling to put the saddle on backwards.  
Dad  : Back in the 1970, newspaper columnist Sidney J. Harris would run a column about once a month titled "Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things".[2]. I can totally relate. I'll start looking for something, find something else, a moment later, find something else, and an hour later, still not having found the original information, find myself 10 miles and 1000 miles away.
Jayne  : I get excited when one chunk of information contains links to other chunks of information. I am my household's The One Who Clicks All Links.
"Did you find the answer to the plant question you were looking up?"
"Shhh. I'm reading about ship construction in the 1700s."
"How did you go from ships to plants?"
"Well, duh. It wasn't a straight line. I got to ships from diseases that affect maple trees, then over to the lumber industry, which lead me to treasury bonds, but that was after the sleeping habits of carpenter bees, and a brief stop at iron lungs and CAT scans without covers."
Tannus  : I just found out this morning. I can't believe I did that; no one told me otherwise.
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Action/Adventure: May 07, 2025 Issue [#13125]
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