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This week: Where is the Action in Holidays? Edited by: Sara♥Jean  
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I'm so excited to be your Action/Adventure Newsletter Editor this week! Please let me know if you have any feedback, or if you have any topics you'd like covered in a newsletter. I will be glad to research it for you and do my best.
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Where is the Action in Holidays?
Sometimes it seems like action and adventure are full of explosions, fights, wounds, and death. How about holidays?
As I get older, I find that I approach holidays in different manners. As a child, I was the one sitting back and enjoying receiving gifts, munching on food, and watching television.
As I got older, I slowly morphed into the person who both gave and received gifts, and who helped in the kitchen a bit. And even older, I'm basically the person making sure everyone else's holiday is going wonderfully, and am actually happy to see everyone else happy. Even if it is quite a bit of work to put together.
Just as I have grown and changed with holidays, holidays can be used (yes, even in action/adventure stories) to show some sides of your character that others may not have seen before.
What role does your character take in the holidays? Is your villain actually the one in the house that makes sure everyone is happy, and it is just outside the house that they truly cause problems? Is your hero the one to be sitting down and relaxing while finally allowing someone else to take a heroic type role in making sure everyone is happy? Do they hate the holidays because they are alone, and it makes them feel as if everyone else has something they don't?
Consider allowing a holiday into your stories. Maybe not so much as so the story is considered a Christmas story, so to speak, but just to break up the action with something that shows a deeper/different side of the characters in your story. |
Here are some stories that touch on both the holidays and Action/Adventure.
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And here is some feedback from my last newsletter called "Word Repetition, and How to Fix It" "Action/Adventure Newsletter (November 26, 2014)"
billwilcox said, "SJ,
I get what you're saying here. I think by reading the pros you will glean words that will always come in handy. My favorite is one I stole from Dean Koontz. It's just a simple thing but keeps me from using the terrible 'SUDDENLY', so I say 'Nevertheless'. It's a BIG help. READ READ READ!!!! It can't hurt. HAPPY TURKEY!"
Yes! I love Dean Koontz. And now that I know you do, too, that makes a lot of sense with some of your stories. Reading is the best way to pass the time while also improving upon your skills as a writer.
Quick-Quill  said, "A red flag to me is the over use of "was" in a paragraph. Once I counted 5 in less than that many sentences. You can use WORD to check the over use of a word or phrase."
That will definitely do it. Good tip!
monty31802 said, "You made a good point in this news letter. Thank you."
As always, you are quite welcome. Thank you, too, Monty. |
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