 Action/Adventure: December 18, 2024 Issue [#12899] |
This week: Holiday Travel Edited by: Leger~  
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Holiday Travel
Holiday travel is always an adventure. By plane, train or car...if you're going somewhere, it's going to be an adventure. Air travel has become crowded and unpleasant. I find no pleasure in traveling by plane. Seats are not human-sized and we're packed in like sardines, including the smell.
Mostly out of boredom, I people-watch. When people are stressed, the best or worst of their personality shows. There's the guy, herding his family and helping guide them through the airport, and the other guy, striding to the gate and leaving the family to struggle to keep up. Generally, they don't speak quietly, so I can eavesdrop and listen to their dialog. Dialog when a person is stressed is very different from calm speaking.
Spending time observing rather than getting annoyed is a good distraction. I try to enjoy the busyness and family time without the negativity ruining it. Commercialism makes it hard. The good news is, that time moves on and the holiday season will pass, like every year. The adventures will end and the blandness of January will move in.
So, hang tight and Write On!
This month's question: Are you an observer, to get ideas for characters and dialog?
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Genre Prompt for November 2024: Fantasy
PICTURES ARE ALL AROUND US AND CAN ELICIT
ALL SORTS OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS . . .
Something different. To set the Muse in motion! The start is DECEMBER 1, 2024
Rules: Write a vignette in 500-750 words. (more or less). No prompt.
A writing activity where fiction meets infection and deadlines have a different meaning.
Excerpt: “If a vampire did exist, where would I find one? And if there was just one, then there could be others. And if there were others, they should be easy to find.”
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This month's question: Are you an observer, to get ideas for characters and dialog?
Answer below Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Action/Adventure Newsletter (November 20, 2024)" question: Do you push the envelope of belief in your characters and stories?
Santeven Quokklaus  : I guess I'm lucky. I've had so many life experiences that I can often find something close to what is going on to my characters that Ican make it believable. But I also know a few people in weird and wonderful positions. If I want to know what it's like to fly, to use your example, yes, I was an acrobat, but I know someone who goes skydiving once a month. She can tell me what it feels like. My son is a triathlete, so I know I can get what true physical exertion to exhaustion described. My ex is a female boss in a male dominated world; she has often told me about her struggles. I ask, and ask a lot. I can't have done everything, but everything has been done by someone. I like the actions and sensations of my characters to be believable, and this is how I manage that.
Monty  : Often.
BIG BAD WOLF is Merry  : There's always something.
oldgreywolf on wheels  : They don't exceed MY belief, and I've been a science fiction fan since before I could read (Outer Limits, movies).
Of course, most of my characters aren't Western Terran Humans. They weren't trained to think inside a mental box, then told to think outside the box. They wouldn't understand such stupid psychology (mostly from the National Education Agency in the US; it's my understanding that European education systems have become realistic).
The Puppet Master : I have been known to write some pretty far-fetched stuff.
HollisFrances  : From my experiences and of those closest to me.
Blessed Christmouse  : Belief, like beauty, is in the eye and mind of beholder or reader. To me it may fit in the real world, but my reader may have a stricter view of reality.
ObsidianAlan : I have been known to write some pretty good stuff, but yes I have
tj-Merry Mischief Maker  : Is the "envelope of belief" anything like the "circle of trust"; asking for a friend.
SAD Holiday Potato : Well...no. Except that one time everyone became snowmen in a cursed train station. And Twilight Sparkle pooping glitter rainbows at Masquerade.
keyisfake : Yes, my hero might decide the villain was right.
Thanks everyone, I appreciate your responses! Leger~
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