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Boom Boom Boom!
We're coming up on Independence Day in the United States and with it comes pyrotechnics. I always see in the neighborhood forums, questions about whether the sound they heard is a firework or a gunshot.
TRIGGER WARNING: I have a video to share, but if you have PTSD for gunfire or loud noises, please scroll on by.
If you're able to listen, this video explains the difference in the sounds and the rapidity of the shots. I thought this might be helpful in an action / adventure story that features weapons. If you can describe the shots or fireworks in an authentic way, the more believable the story will be.
I have a friend who works in a weapons factory, and as an interesting factoid, their sales go up the few months right before an election.
I love fireworks, so I'm always excited to go see a display. I used to love shooting them off, now I live in an area that is too populated to enjoy, so I'll leave it to the experts. I made that decision when my very large bottle rocket stick landed on a neighbor's roof. Oops.
Now I'll add the complimentary warnings and let you go celebrate!
Please handle and store firearms safely. It only takes one mistake.
Please leave fireworks to the experts...authors need all their fingers. So do their friends and children.
Now get out there and enjoy!
This month's question: Do you use videos to educate yourself in instances like this?
How do you use that in your writing?
Answer below  Editors love feedback! 
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Excerpt: “Why’d you go to the doctor’s?”
Excerpt: As I reached for the charcoal lighter fluid, everyone in the backyard heard Gregg call out, "Careful with that 'Girl Scout Water', bro! You wouldn't want a flame buried in those briquets to run up into that can! Might not be so lucky this time!" Sheesh! Some people just never forget, or let you forget.
Excerpt: Until now, because Belle knew that July 4th from now on would be a date to remember with a smile.
Excerpt: I love a good fireworks show. When I’m not at war with myself over what to do with the rest of my life.
Excerpt: “I see them! All different colors!” She called down as I prepared the pullout bed in the living room for our sleep-over. When the noise had faded away, Miranda hopped back down the stairs and began riffling through her knapsack to find a movie for the VCR. It was routine – a flimsy movie of no consequence playing to fall asleep by.
Excerpt: A wind rustled through the land. No one heard the gunshot. No one saw the man.
Excerpt: After a few hours of preparation, the festival began. There were paper lanterns and lights shining brightly throughout the main building of the school and outside. Vendors and carnival games were lined up outside the school. Student activities were set up inside. The student’s families and other people flocked into the festival. Soon it was filled with laughter, voices, and cries of joy from younger children.
Prompts: What if we are nothing but shadows? - song by Kittie (We Are Shadows)
What if this is a day to remember? - the band, A Day to Remember
What if someone struggles to see that they are worth it? - song by Pop Evil (Worth It)
What if there is a sign of life? - song by Motionless in White (Sign of Life)
What if collaboration is the key? - groups that collaborate like Babymetal and Electric Callboy
18+ prompt: What if I almost told you that I loved you? - song by Papa Roach, has adult content (I Almost Told You That I Love You)
Prompt: July 1 - 6: Shopping List. This month we are looking at ways to use a list within a story. First week, the shopping list. What kind of items can be used for romance or erotica? How can a shopping list be part of a story? Let's see what you can create using a shopping list.
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This month's question: Do you use videos to educate yourself in instances like this?
How do you use that in your writing?
Answer below Editors love feedback!
May's "Action/Adventure Newsletter (May 8, 2024)" question: Have you created unusual animals or characters?
How do you fit that in your writing??
brom21  : The sea has a unique tranquility. Consider dolphin art. It is very peaceful and it moves upon your emotions. Abyssal sea life is full of alien creatures. A good place to start of your writing horror or sci-fi. lol. Grear NL!
aybzflash  : I don't know if this is good enough. In a technologically advanced future, a brilliant young engineer living in the city of Nova-3 discovers a hidden weakness in the omnipresent artificial intelligence, Nexus, which governs daily life. This revelation draws the attention of a clandestine group called the Disruptors, who aim to dismantle the AI's control over the city.
Recruited by the Disruptors, the main character embarks on a mission to infiltrate the Nexus' core. In the process, they uncover a secret bio-technological upgrade called the Inversion Implant, allowing them to manipulate gravity and walk on any surface, even upside down. As they struggle to control their newfound abilities, they navigate political intrigue and confrontations with enemies to uncover the truth behind the Nexus' creation and purpose.
Monty  : I should write about myself.
TheBusmanPoet  : Nope. Just cats, bees and wildlife.
Ned : I did write a story once with characters who were trying to avoid the apocalypse by living at the bottom of the sea, but I can't find it. Otherwise, I would link it in an act of shameless self-promotion.
s : All the time. In Invasive Species, I made one based on Mediaeval legend. I enjoy playing with evolution.
Why?
Because I live in Australia where the real wildlife is out to get you.
And where penguins live.
Yes, I know the examples I gave were not really sea-like. But I live with great white sharks, banded sea snakes, megalodons, blue-ringed octopodes, irukandji jellyfish, friggin' sharks with friggin' lasers and penguins.
Our seas are scary.
But yes, in one of my published short stories, I wrote about a huge sea reptile and the Captain Ahabian man out to get him...
Fernando : Created a character named Drawson who has a mutation inflicted upon him. This has made his left eye completely black and is a power for him to utilize. When done, his left eye inflates to the size of a normal balloon and uses something that is similar to echolocation which allows Drawson to find out mutated creatures. Forgot to mention but he is also a hunter that seeks out other mutated creatures and eliminates them from whatever location they are in, house, village, city, field, etc...
Bonnie8910 : Yeah. It was a weird mixture of a pig, squid, and reptiles. It's meant to be a horrific monstrosity and was created with an element that completely changes things' appearance and genetics.
ThunderX : I've created a mercat. It's like a mermaid, but it's half cat, half fish.
oldgreywolf scribbles : Do you mean more unusual than some of the weird life existing, nay, thriving, on our planet?
THANKFUL SONALI Now What?  : No, but my parents did. Me. 
Massive Friendly Derg  : I had to create a new species for a science project once. I loosely based mine off the Metroid. Unfortunately all I remember is it lived in the desert.
The ocean depths are home to some of the most bizzare creatures!
Mousethyme  : I remember creating unusual water creatures formed from toxic chemicals dumped in the water in a post apacolyptic world but sadly I lost all the notes to it in an apartment fire.....
I've also created interesting creatures for my "Nezoom Musings"
Massive Friendly Derg Mousethyme - which I totally was NOT responsible for.
D. Reed Whittaker : Do unicorns and mermaids count? The things contests make me do.
amy-Has a great future ahead : In one of my children's stories I created my own monster called a Bulldoor.
Humble_Poet PNG : My first wife and I collaborated to create two unusual characters. Both are grown now and have created a dozen or so unusual characters of their own.
keyisfake : I made a sentient pumpkin and a Phathon make of hundred snakes.
MagicIan : Does a sentient purple unicorn count? Or a private eye from another dimension who can shrink-and-grow at will?
Leger: WOW! Those are some interesting characters! Thanks for your responses and amusing replies!
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