Action/Adventure: April 02, 2014 Issue [#6246]
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 This week: Collections
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1. About this Newsletter
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3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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Letter from the editor

Collections


Do any of you collect something? I know someone who collects those candy Pez dispensers. She has more than 1500 Pez dispensers. (Pez only made 550 or so, I'm guessing there are pirate copies or duplicates?) I think most collections start with a few items and then blossom with interest. Well, that and your relatives find out you have an interest and next thing you know you're getting Pez dispensers for Christmas.

Collections can be small and intimate, or huge and bordering on crazy obsessive. And there isn't really a definition of "most". The record collection for the most bagpipes is 105. The worlds largest collection of pizza boxes numbers at 600. The largest collection of Pokémon memorabilia belongs to Lisa Courtney (UK), with 14,410 different items as of 14 October 2010, which she has been collecting for over 14 years. Some collections are weird, like the guy who collects airplane barf bags. Clean ones, I assume. He has 6,016 of them.

Like archaeologists, collectors have to dig deep and have a lot of connections to find the most valuable and collectible items for their stash. This might mean some off-the-books trading or bartering to get the one special piece to add to their collection. Some items, I'm sure, were stolen. Or uh, removed without the owner's permission. This, I think, could lead to some action and adventure. So if you have a collection, or know someone who collects, ask them about any stories they might know...it could lead to your next novel or character. Write on!


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Excerpt: My sister presses her back against the door, a thin stream of blood trailing from her temple to trace the curved line of her jaw. I watch it, morbidly fascinated. They start banging on the door again.

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Excerpt: He saw a dark blue bottle with a cork stopper, half buried in the sand. Inside it, he could see a piece of rolled-up paper. He pulled out the cork, turned the bottle upside down and shook it hard trying to get the paper out. He gave the bottle a couple more shakes. The paper would not come out. The way the paper was curled he could see that there was writing on it but he could not read it. He replaced the cork and put the bottle into his bag. He would try again at home. He laughed. Already his writer's imagination was off and running. What was on the paper? It could be anything, even a treasure map.

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Excerpt: The sign hanging from the twin posts guarding the town’s entrance read “Welcome to Historic Elijah. Est. 1837.” The relatively fresh white paint implied that the town was inhabited. As Beth passed under the sign she noticed other signs of life. A chorus of neighs came from the inside of an old stable. Piano music and the sounds of conversation floated out of a saloon. And, of course, there were two men in Western garb playing checkers on a barrel.

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Excerpt: He is not like any of the hundreds of men I have comforted over the years. He fascinates me, along with his thousands of followers who wander through the deserts listening to his tales and sitting by his side just to be in his presence.

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Excerpt: I leaned back against the wall, well out of the way, while two nurses and Darien's parents tried to calm him down. My hand covered my mouth so I couldn't make any sound, not that anyone would have heard me over Darien's yelling.

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Excerpt: "I still remember what a vision you were that day," Jerry said with a sparkle in his eyes as he thought of the first day they'd met, sixty years gone. "Remember when I pulled up in that old pick-up? I thought I'd died and gone to heaven, you looked like an angel standing up there on your daddy's porch,"

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Excerpt: The internet had informed me of every evil nuance to be found in Bangkok; every scam, every warning, every missing person, every murder, every false arrest, every depravity. I had read nightmare story after nightmare story until I really didn’t even want to go at all. But I had already bought the tickets.

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Excerpt: No, far safer to dance with the wallflowers. If he danced with several of them, no one could raise questions about his intentions. Not even his mother. While he was at it, he could give some poor debutante a turn on the dance floor.

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Excerpt: Tonight, by a bizarre twist of fate, her life lay solely in his hands. And he feared the conflict between his personal and professional feelings might somehow impede his skills.

 
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This month's question: What do you collect and how did the collection start?

Last month's question: What is your favorite way to kill your character? And where do you hide the body?


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