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Action/Adventure: May 06, 2015 Issue [#6974]

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 This week: Venture Outside Traditional Roles
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland


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Letter from the editor

Traditional roles change over time and location. These roles sit differently on all sorts of characters, and how they fit these roles will have a big effect on them.

Consider two characters from Game of Thrones: Brienne of Tarth and Dacey Mormont. Both women are warriors in a medieval type setting where that doesn't happen very often. Yet they're very different people. Brienne wears full armor but doesn't seem at ease in either in or out of it. She's awkward in many circumstances her memories give us glimpses into her early life as an outcaste. Dacey Mormont (not a viewpoint character, so we never see into her memories) comes across much more confidently. She's feminine and the armor and battleaxe become part of the feminine side, rather than warring against it like with Brienne.

A third will be Arya Stark, though she hasn't grown up yet. She wields a sword from time to time, and usually following her brother's advice to "stick them with the pointy end."

None of these women fits the traditional role of women in their society. Arya clashes with Sansa over these differences. Dacey is accepted within her family, probably because most of the women in her family have found ways to change this. Brienne remains alone.

Your story isn't Game of Thrones. However, you will have created roles (or use existing ones from our world) and change your characters accordingly on their adventures. Is he fighting for a king? Is he bringing down a dirty judge? Or is this an adventure within the family where each person learns to take over a new part - the father is out of commission and the daughter takes over the lawn care or a mother falls ill and the son manages laundry. All of this will change the characters and their future paths.


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Ask & Answer

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I think predictability is not a curse but an essential reagent. Too little, and we have the ravings of a madman, the jumbled mess of a word find. Too much, and we have that most disappointing of patterns: a cover of a rerun, the story which manages neither novelty nor nostalgia, but which sicklies over the native hue of narrative with the pale cast of boredom.

But reading the last page first? I think that's for those who prefer not adventure, but mystery: a puzzle to vex their thoughts. Having foreseen the future, they strive to intuit the path whereby it manifests.
         I don't know. I've never been one of those people.


billikus
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         No birds were harmed in the writing of this newsletter.

monty31802
A good News Letter Especially for the birds.
         Thanks.

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This is plotting. I wish you would have give the difference in the two ideas. Your last sentence about stringing the actions together with a building premise. If you would have said, "After the first two incidents I was sure I'd been transported into the movie, THE BIRDS." The next actions would have reinforced the concept and the reader's mind would follow. A few words of your premise lead the reader into the plot not away from it.

         I apologize for mixing newsletter with my driving history.

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