 Action/Adventure: April 20, 2016 Issue [#7597] |
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This week: The Hunt Edited by: Storm Machine  
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. ~Ernest Hemingway
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. Paul Rodriguez
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage. Orlando Bloom
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. Thomas Harris
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Recently I found myself locked into a clothing cult called LuLaRoe. They say their leggings are as soft as butter. One pair on eBay was posted on FB tonight to have 42 bidders and the price was $237. FOR ONE PAIR OF LEGGINGS! Retail price, $25.
Yes, it's just the next big thing. Yes, it'll calm down in a while. Soon it'll all blow over, and the people who paid that kind of crap will wonder where all their money went. Unicorn hunters will wonder about all the time they spent to find that one print that couldn't be found.
But there's thrill to be found no matter what it might be. Can you make your reader feel that instinct to find that perfect whatever-it-is?
Bring this into your character's life. There's something that she's searching for. It might be who she is, it might be someone close to her, and it might be a physical object that cannot be obtained without parting with something valuable. Your character must face the dilemma between obsession with the hunt and continuing with normal life.
Meet Randi. She hates clothing in general and has five outfits in her closet only because she refuses to do laundry mid-week. Her boyfriend is dying to have his palm read at a local psychic, and she's transported to a new world when the psychic tells her that she'll find happiness in pushing a new clothing cult - direct sales opportunity - among the women she works with. The only trick is she has to wear them all the time in order to do this.
Is Randi going to get pulled down the rabbit hole? Will she stick to her five-outfits-maximum lifestyle? Will she get a new boyfriend after he runs out to see the psychic again and again? Will she throttle the women who mob her for a specific style or print or combination of this apparel cult? Will she find knockoffs to keep them off her back? Will she find new ways to express herself and a deeper meaning of herself through sales? Haha, that almost fooled me into believing it. Maybe poor Randi will find herself in jail for the riots when she does something that no one expects. And maybe she'll dredge up the spirit to tell them all to jump off a bridge instead of being so obsessed with their appearance. Or she'll fall for the propaganda from this megacorporation and she might become one of their best reps and spokespersons.
Sure, you as an author might substitute beanie babies or race cars or dinosaur DNA in this hunt, and it's going to change the setting and the character and the actions required for the adventure. But the one certain thing is that someone will be there, nail-biting and wondering how the story will turn out. Don't worry if it isn't a typical adventure filled with fantasy creatures or scientific gadgets. It's all in how you present that tale and the changes that are faced through the narrative.
Action is what happens outside. We're not talking about the introspective, though there will be pieces of that, too. Action is where Randi rushes into the fight between the women who rip the dress in half each trying to claim it as her own, not where her boyfriend plunges into the deep depression that the psychic found nothing about his life interesting. Action is where she challenges someone to step up and be more in front of a bully who thinks he can get away with whatever he wants among a bunch of women. Action is in the choices that allow someone to be brave and to overcome the obstacles, rather than slinking against the wall unnoticed and forgotten. Action is the point where no one is willing to back down anymore, and the flaws come out to be noticed. |
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GRIMM 
To be fair, in Raiders of the Lost Ark, it is quite possible the Nazis would not have found the Ark at all. Remember Indiana Jones is the one who found the location in a close but different area, and it was stolen from him. Now it's possible that with more digging the Nazis would have eventually found it. Or on the other hand, they might have given up, saying it was too expensive to continue and gone home.
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