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Action/Adventure: May 18, 2011 Issue [#4406]

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 This week: Five Tips Every Story Writer Should Know
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Whether you're writing a short story, an essay-telling story, blog or action/adventure novel, you want readers to grab your work and lose themselves in your words.

1. Create your outline. You can add details later. Houses aren't built by throwing down a foundation and tossing together some wood and nails. Architects design detailed blueprints for builders to follow. Feel free to change or add details. Putting an outline down on paper gives you a visual map of your story arch. Outlines can spark creativity, give direction, and help authors stay focused when the actual writing begins.

2. Create interesting characters. Even nonfiction writers can benefit by accentuating a person's quirky habits, nervous gestures, appearance, religious/political beliefs. Do your characters have pets? What are they most afraid of? What motivates them to get up and go to work every day? Is there a secret they possess? Why do they take the scenic route instead of the highway?

3. Emphasize setting details. Draw your readers into your setting by providing enough detail for them to not only see, but hear, smell, feel and taste. Setting includes immediate surroundings, time of day/period, atmosphere. Use setting to further your plot, increase suspense, or provide a break from drama. Too much detail can bore a reader, just enough can energize him.

4.Plots should include tension and conflict. Readers love conflict. Sometimes writers cringe when developing mean or careless characters, but nothing satisfies a reader more than a well-developed antagonist. Remember, conflicts can include the main character's struggle with himself, his rivals, Mother Nature, The Man Upstairs, animals, government, and even an object.

5. Reward the reader with a resolution. Nothing makes a reader feel more robbed than to read an entire story only to discover the author failed to tie up most of the loose ends in providing a resolution to the conflict. It's one thing to leave a reader thirsty for more; but another to leaving him hanging.

After you've finished your next piece, check over these tips to make sure you've included them into your action/adventure story.


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Hey. Attached is a suspenseful Action/Adventure story which I really love.

I enjoy reading this newsletter. I really need to know some of this stuff and read examples, samples of successful suspense. At the beginning, however, some of it didn't make sense, i.e. "Are you scared?" she asks

"Yes." I reach under the seat for the gun.

"Relax, he's at the ball field. He wouldn't miss it for world."

This threw me a bit because I don't know who's talking. But then I read the next bit and read it again and it all made sense.

Thanks for this wonderful newsletter!

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