 Action/Adventure: January 28, 2009 Issue [#2857] |
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Each day is a blank page, an adventure to be written, action and re-action ~ be pro-active
Greetings! I'm honored to be your guest host for this week's Action & Adventure Newsletter, the week I celebrate three years of my Adventure in our Community of Writers and Artists.
One can say that life itself is an adventure, as we daily encounter (fellow writers, we don't merely pass by, we notice) something to solve, surmount, answer, question - you get the point And we can write of such adventure, real or invented, in a number of genres. Adventure stories and poems can be romantic, historical, science fiction, fantasy, mystery....
Action, by definition, is movement. Action and Adventure stories and poems therefore are intense, forceful and maybe violent. The action keeps your reader involved, on edge, and needing (not just wanting) to keep reading
Action is movement. We don't want to see it interrupted by reflection, internal thought. We want to see the characters react to the situation, their environment.
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Skye wakes to the strident call, summoning her once again to attend her destiny, before she slaps her hand across its face, silencing the mechanized messenger. She rises before the sun warms away the night and after a quick charge to the motor mental, takes up the challenge. She dashes across the obstacle course, alert to the daily changes, to face the onslaught of behemoths, dodging their crushing metallic maws at the last minute, on her way to the transport.
After a quick turn of the head to clear distance behind and before her, Skye squares her shoulders and boards the transport, donning a mask of indifferent disregard at the crunch of bones and flesh beneath her feet. There are no tentacles reaching towards her, but she remains wary and observant while affecting the required somnolent shuffle to attain a seat. She plots her course, prepared to do battle with mortal or behemoth as necessary, to reach the tower. The transport eventually stops near her destination and the doors open with a rush of air, allowing her to disembark, fellow passengers unmindful of her quest.
Much as she would like to follow the gulls to the lake for a brief respite, she knows that time is too short and scans the path to the tower, now in sight, before embarking on the second obstacle course of the day as the sun, now fully formed along the horizon, chases her challengers from their shadowed sanctuaries. No match for her swift paced tenacity, they give way with but a brief confrontation and she attains the tower, ascending to welcome another workday.
This day, as five out of seven each week, will present a plethora of challenges to the mind and body. Skye’s focus remains firm, and she meets each challenge, whether it stretches her mind or seeks to numb it, with a smile and a song; earning accolades and thanks upon completion from the masters. Her job is what she does for money, and she enjoys meeting and completing the tasks placed before her as she gathers the tokens that provide for a space of respite each evening where she can do the work she loves and vie for the ultimate prize. The writer writes, and attains the ultimate prize of publication in print.
Okay, I made an adventure out of my journey to work; took it third person and added some action. And I did it by creating a quest, and giving a sentient identity to the oncoming minivans with cell phone-wielding one-handed sleepy drivers (behemoths) challenging my walk along the street to the bus stop. The transport is the bus packed with sleepy worker bees sardined among droopy-drawered students, the floors and seats littered with remains of illicit meals identifiable only by the miasma of ‘aromas’ (being polite here).
There is no story without action, and adventure can be found anywhere ~ whether climbing a mountain, diving for a lost ring, or dodging panhandlers on the way to work (the second obstacle course above). Action brings an adventure story or poem to life, evokes the senses to make it real and visceral for the reader. An adventure begins with the a quest, and the action is the journey the hero or protagonist takes to attain the quest, determined and focused, battling (or avoiding) adversaries that would deny him/her the goal. Along the way, the protagonist may encounter help or hindrance, doubts and verification, but does not digress from the focus on the goal (or plunge into a plethora of adjectives or adverbs to describe what he sees or perceives or imagines, but experiences his/her surroundings with immediate visual, aural, sensory impact). Action keeps the reader involved and anxious to turn each page, as eager to attain the quest as the protagonist, involved in the fast-paced ‘otherworld’ real or imagined, whether in the past, present, or future, the writer develops with economy of words to propel the story or poem (and the reader) forward along the journey.
So, for me, Action and Adventure stories and poems have the following:
 A quest
A reason the quest is necessary or important to the protagonist
Adversary(ies) to thwart the attainment of said quest
Action that focuses the protagonist’s journey towards the quest (with economy of distracting ancillary verbiage)
Attaining the quest – or failing to – and how – by the adventurer
There is so much potential for action and adventure in life, past and present, and future. I hope you enjoyed our brief journey today and perhaps consider writing an adventure story or poem about a quest.
Until we next meet, may your ‘adventures’ be creative and joyous ~
Keep Writing!
Kate
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Thank you for this time together. Until we next meet, may your adventures with the muse creative be active ^_^
Keep Writing!
Kate
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