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Action/Adventure: March 10, 2010 Issue [#3596]

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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Helen Keller


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Letter from the editor

Believability


Three things should always be at the forefront when considering your action/adventure tale: logic, reason, and credibility. Your characters have (probably human) abilities, and your reader is hoping they win at the end of the story.

But there are places where you can lose the readers where they’d otherwise stay. Did John shoot his pistol with eight bullets, when it only holds six? Did Kurt never stop for gas – or anything else – for a several hundred mile car chase in the middle of the night? Did Mandy exhibit unknown acrobatic skills when she jumped out of a seventh story window to land lightly on an awning and flip to the sidewalk when three chapters earlier she tripped on the carpet runner?

If your characters aren’t human, you’ll have to set up their physical and mental abilities and stick to them. For regular people, however, it will require research. How long can a person survive without water? What happens when two cars collide? Can someone swim across the Mississippi River with the snow melt and ice floes?

I know Hollywood makes their own rules; my husband and I sometimes look at each other and shake our heads because it wouldn’t happen that way. It has brought up major engineering/physics/other discussions. When we’re famous and get stories made into movies, I’m sure we’ll let Hollywood use their fake science all they like, but as we write it, it had better be real.

It better be consistent, too. The last thing you want is to have letters from all your readers saying how in Book 1 Chapter 15 Zara’s thigh was punctured with a pitchfork, but Book 2 Chapter 6 the other character talked about her shoulder injury.

Good luck and happy writing!


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