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Action/Adventure: March 26, 2014 Issue [#6231]

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 This week: No Happy Ending for Heroes
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Hello writers and readers of action and adventure, I am NaNoNette Author Icon, your guest editor for this issue.


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Letter from the editor

No Happy Ending for Heroes


Heroes don't get to retire just because a job is done.


How many times have you read a book or story, or even watched a movie and during the most tense times were able to comfort yourself with, "It's going to be okay. This is the hero and they have to come out in one piece at the end for the next installment."

Doesn't that just kill all suspense for you? It does tone down the peril and lessens my engagement in the story for me. If you want to blow your reader's mind, do not end your story with a perfect victory where everything is as it was in the beginning. Let there be something that is unresolved. Even if you don't plan a series, stay in your reader's mind as writer who delivers excitement with endings that leave room for thoughts and hopes.

If your hero relies on any tool, do something to the tool that forces the hero to work on it. For instance, if your hero starts out owning a car and throughout the adventure that car gives trusty transportation, but in the end, even with the adventure fulfilled, give the car a flat tire in the middle of nowhere. Or have something else happen to the car that makes it so that the hero now has to do something about it. Don't total the car. A totaled car is equal to death and there is no more drama left.

In the end, have a character tell the hero that somebody believed to be dead is in reality alive. Tell them that a love interest that was lost has been seen. At least, give your hero the message of some sort that there is more adventure to be had - even if you have no intention to write that additional adventure.



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Comments I got for my last Action Adventure Newsletter "Action Verbs" Open in new Window.

Natechia dos Reis Author Icon wrote: I enjoyed your article on the lazy verbs. I'm trying to go through all my writing pieces to meticulously eliminate these lazy verbs. Declutter your writing someone said to me once, and that is what I do now. It takes longer but the flow improves, and the more you practice the more you eliminate from your writing style all together. Thank you again.

Very good! I am currently undergoing a similar process. It's liberating to try to come up with verbs that are more descriptive than "had."

monty31802 wrote: Great Newsletter but I need those lazy verbs *Smile*

Yes, we will always need them at some times.



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