Action/Adventure: December 25, 2019 Issue [#9862]
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 This week: Around the World in 24 Hours
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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

Dear writers and readers of action/adventure, I am NaNoNette Author Icon and I will be your guest editor for this issue.


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Letter from the editor

Around the World in 24 Hours


Every year, a couple of days before Christmas, a covert specialist from NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) travels to the North Pole and hides a GPS tracker in Rudolph's nose. That's why we can track him from space by his shiny red nose. Once that red nose is a few time zones away, it's time to go to bed and sleep.

Rudolph, you must know, is a reindeer who pulls the sled that is filled with toys for all the children all around the whole earth in one short 24-hour period.
Rudolph isn't alone in his job. There are Donner, Blitzen, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Dunder and Vixen too. They all make that sled go to every single home on the globe.
No action/adventure is complete without some peril.
Along for the ride is an old guy who spent his year making toys to give out. Now, in one night, he is going to climb down and back up every chimney in the world. He can only hope there is no fire in the chimney. We must never try to meet this man. Because that man is very shy. He only talks to cookies and glasses full of milk.

There have been many stories surrounding those reindeer and the man who travels along with them. All of those stories include some of the major hallmarks of action/adventure.

There is travel. There are deadlines. There are high stakes. What if a house is overlooked? There are trees to fly over. Planes not to crash into. And there is the whole world tracking them via satellite.

You can probably find stories involving some version of Christmas in any genre. When you boil down the modern Christmas experience that Rudolph and his reindeer friends have, it is the ultimate action adventure. While so much is planned in advance, like the traveling day, there are so many variables. The weather, the children, the parents ... and those grouches ...

As you see in the Editor's Picks, Christmas is the ideal backdrop for an action adventure story.

Happy Holidays


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Editor's Picks

 Zena's Christmas Open in new Window. (ASR)
The wolfess wakes from a dream, to a plesant surprise
#1734193 by BIG BAD WOLF is Howling Author IconMail Icon

 Christmas With A Stranger Open in new Window. (E)
Lucy embarks on a holiday and has to be rescued by a handsome stranger.
#2146348 by Gary Tipping Author IconMail Icon

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  BUNK HOUSE CHRISTMAS. Open in new Window. (E)
Cowboy Poetry
#2131216 by Kevin F Dunn Author IconMail Icon

 
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My Christmas - 2009 Open in new Window. (E)
Quite an unusual Christmas...
#1629104 by Maria Mize Author IconMail Icon

 
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Joey And Me Open in new Window. (E)
"Come on, slowpoke! I'll race you to the top!
#573054 by W.D.Wilcox Author IconMail Icon

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Christmas Crime Open in new Window. (13+)
Breaking and entering for a good cause. A different family Christmas story.
#1963149 by GeminiGem🐾 Author IconMail Icon

Adventures Awaiting Open in new Window. (E)
What kind of places can actually exist?
#2001836 by 👼intuey Author IconMail Icon

 Caroling Quest - Christmas Nostalgia Open in new Window. (13+)
1960's England, 3 children have a Christmas wish - to raise money for an acoustic guitar.
#1910819 by FireFly_2 Author IconMail Icon

 
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Ask & Answer

I received these replies to my last Action/Adventure newsletter "Opt OutsideOpen in new Window.

Monty Author Icon wrote: Good old Black Friday that lasts for over a week.

And then there are those pesky "Black Friday in July" things in summer. Jeez.

LMs❤️BrewinMagic Author Icon wrote: Great newsletter, I was one of those retailers that dreaded BLACK FRIDAY! The mad rushes to get the item of desires, not watching that you were knocking down the child in front of you because the parent didn't have a baby sitter to watch them. I love Christmas and enjoy the sales just as anyone else does. But, not at the cost of hurting someone else. I retired 6 years ago and still to this day have never shopped on a BLACK FRIDAY! I'm in agreement with you on doing something rather fun or eventful on they day. My son and grandkids go to the newest kids movie on that day now. This will be our 4 year doing it. A new family tradition was born on BLACK FRIDAY! Thank you for posting my story of my grand-dog's Marlin and Gunner. "The Great (Almost) Get Away Open in new Window.

That's a great way to spend the day. I might try it.

tj-turkey-jobble-jobble-hard-J Author Icon wrote: I guess I never knew how the term Black Friday got started and just assumed it was a result of the dark madness of the shoppers fighting over the last item, much like a pack of starving Hyenas fighting over a scrap of meat.
The idea of getting outside and cleaning up nature it great, but after working security at a home improvement store for the last several years on Black Friday, I prefer not to venture anyplace from Thanksgiving afternoon until late Friday night or even Saturday morning.

Hahaha. I believe you have done your best for Black Friday. Maybe you can try the movie going tip from above *Up*



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