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Greetings! and Welcome to this week's edition of the Writing.Com Action and Adventure Newsletter.
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Greetings, fellow Adventurers 
Okay, "who, what, when, where, why." These are questions we ask when we weave a story or verse of adventure. Yes, really, it's not just for an essay or article, but what readers seek when they embark on a literary adventure. Think about it, when you begin reading a story, or a poem, don't look for answers to these questions from the opening line? A reason to keep reading, to embark on an adventure, to step for a time out of the mundane, the ordinary?
Now, let's explore one of these questions, focus on creating an adventure and then engaging our readers so they actively want to pursue the adventure (on the pages, of course)
Most all writing asks "what if," but an adventure challenges the characters and reader when it asks and attempts to weave a path to the answer to, "Why Not"? Why not, leave the cabin for a tent even though rumor has it rodents and two-legged varmints have been seen in the foothills? See the possibilities? Taking a chance, taking action, sometimes without an excess of forethought. Act first, not necessarily rashly, but before pondering all the possible results.
Think about it, if the spy doesn't take the case, if the treasure hunter doesn't get on the shuttle to Venusia (fictional), then no action is taken and the adventure is done before it is begun.
Once the adventure is begun, "why not" happens again whenever the adventurer encounters a foe, an adversary, obstacles both physical and emotional, a potential helper or friend, whether sentient or otherwise. He or she asks why, then considering the options or acting on impulse if necessary, says 'why not' and takes action to advance the adventure.
Movement from one place or state of being or thought to another is taking action. Action enhances the conflict and tension and engages the adventurer in the quest, the adventure. It makes the adventure important to the adventurer and changes him/her in some way, positive or negative. The adventure continues until there is no longer a reason to ask 'why not.'
Why not, give it a try, and craft an adventure in verse or prose ~ and along the way, check out a few adventures offered by several members of our Community who ask us, 'what if' ~ then postulate 'why not' 
Write On!!
Kate
Kate - Writing & Reading
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Check out these adventures in prose and verse ~ see if you can find where what if becomes why not, and then, why not, let the writers know with a comment or perchance a review , and pen one of your own 
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Thank you for sharing this exploration with me ~ I hope you keep asking and plotting answers to 'what if' in prose and verse ~ move it along by taking a chance ~ 'why not'
Before I depart your virtual space, I'd like to share a couple comments after my last appearance as your guest editor ~
From monty31802
"A good News Letter, shows ways of looking at things."
Thank you for your encouragement - we writers of prose and verse do engage in creative interpretation of the obvious.
Write On 
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From Joto-Kai 
"Sometimes we find that the protagonist or his charges have become the accidental villain. Star Trek TOS episode, "Devil In The Dark" was the first example I ever saw of this. Once understood, the ruthless enemy's demands had to be complied with - for moral reasons - no matter how monstrously inhuman the Horta seemed at first glance. (In fact had things been reversed, we might not have been so forgiving.)"
"Accidental villain" - great visual image, even without the cool example (fledgeling Trekkie, me) - thank you for sharing both
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Until we next meet, I challenge each of you,
remember to ask,
Why Not?
Kate
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