 Action/Adventure: December 04, 2013 Issue [#6025] |
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This week: Culture Shock Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Culture Shock
Action/adventure stories benefit from exotic locations.
Thinking of great action adventures often brings to mind stories that happen in the jungle, in space, on other planets, in countries that we've never visited, or in big cities.
It can be very beneficial to use an exotic location in your action adventure story because:
 It allows you to describe the landscape.
 You can put just about any beast into your story. Remember "Lost?" They put an ice bear on a tropical island. Yes, it worked for them, it can work for you.
  It gives you a chance to describe people in detail and have it be part of the entertainment. Make sure you give them a local culture, local customs, and local foods that they eat. What people do, how they dress and behave is a crucial part of scene setting.
 There can be a great variety of sources of peril.
 Traveling can be a part of the adventure, giving you time to build up the plot, introduce the characters, and show the reader who and what she/he's dealing with.
When you think up your next action adventure story, remember to give your readers not only some action that will take their breath away, but also some amazing things to "look" at. Even if the waterfall you describe looks different in your reader's inner eye, they will still see a waterfall. You can make it wide or high or both. You can send your reader to the refrigerator for a cold glass of orange juice when you describe an arid desert. You can make your readers twitch in disgust and search around worriedly by having your hero fall into a pit of spiders/beetles/snakes.
Just as your heroes have adventures that a normal person might not be able to have, take your reader on an adventure that lets them partake in a world that they can only see while in your pages.
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Comments I got for my last Action Adventure Newsletter "Ensemble Pieces"
Joey' Falling for the Season  wrote: Hey Giselle,
Thanks for the tag I have a lot more yet to get in that folder. But its cool that maybe some folk who haven't read any of E.R.Burroughs. can take a gander. I am more partial the Tarzan group, but then how many can boast then they had the real Tarzan at their sixth birthday party. "Edgar Rice Burroughs"
You had Tarzan at your sixth birthday party? Johnny Weismueller? Wooooooaaaaahhhhh *dies*
Quick-Quill  wrote: What a great NL. It came at just the right time. I have a partner/love interest I gave my hero, but I had very little about her background. Thank you for the prompt to dig a little deeper, and add word count to the NaNo
 Adding to NaNo word count is what it's all about in November. And it makes your story better too.
monty31802 wrote: You made some good points in your newsletter.
Thank you.
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Is there a frontier action / mystery section?
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Hi Reg. I've featured your item above. Let's see if that will yield you any reviews. Other than that, you might also post it on "The Shameless "Plug" Page" and "Please Review"
Mr. Midnight wrote: Here is a great dystopian piece I been working on with 4 main heroes. half male - half female group. Each with their own specialty and back-story, some of which unknowingly intertwine with each other. "Invalid Item"
Cool! Very "Lost." 
BIG BAD WOLF Feeling Thankful  wrote: Sometimes heroes just show up. "Monster Cowboys The Book"
They do.
Shadowstalker-- Covid free wrote: Personally I think that not only should the characters have all those points you mentioned but also be easily identified to the reader when they speak/act. I've seen a bunch of sentences where they mash who is speak/acting with another character, forcing you to pull yourself from the story and sort it all out. Or if character's A, B,C, and D are all having a discussion you begin asking yourself who's who and who spoke to whom?
Yes! Very good point! Deserves double explanation marks. When writing a scene with more than two players, it might be necessary to tell the reader each and every single time who is speaking unless that person was mentioned by name in dialogue before and it can be assumed that the answer is from that person. This is where we, as a writing group, can have a very interesting and lively discussion on how to best do this is text.
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