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Action/Adventure: October 05, 2016 Issue [#7896]

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 This week: Casting Your Action/Adventure Story
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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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About This Newsletter

Hello writers and readers of action and adventure, I am Annette Author Icon, your guest editor for this issue.


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Letter from the editor

Casting Your Action/Adventure Story


You're not supposed to do it, but ...


Who would you like to star in the movie adaptation of your action/adventure?


A long time ago, I heard that studios don't want writers to come to them with a wishlist of who should fill certain roles in their scripts. This makes sense as the schedules of certain actors or the amount some actors want to get paid don't fit the needs of the production.

In other writing-related advice, I learned that it's not a good idea to describe characters with too much detail so that the reader can form their own impression from their own imagination - or to have more leeway when casting an actor into a role.

Throwing all of that overboard, I have used descriptions of certain actors in my writing. I once had a character who was a little bit rude to those around him and I tried my best to describe him to look like Tom Cruise. Another time, I used Bruce Willis as the blueprint for a character.

Of course, on our site, we come from all corners of the world and an actor that you know very well might be entirely unknown to me. That means, no matter how well you describe him or her, I will have no clue. This, in return is good because as you describe him or her in detail, I can still insert my idea of that character's look, but by including the details you gave me.

How much you want to describe your characters is entirely up to you, but don't be afraid to give them the face, height, hair color, eye color and more that you want them to have. Just make sure it is narrated naturally. This is very tricky in a first person story and I've seen it often that the character will look in a mirror and think about their looks. But I've also seen other first person story tellers be smoother about it and have some of that come up in dialogue, through the reactions of others, or just never be discussed in detail at all. One writer here on Writing.Com even wrote one set of characters in an entirely neutral way to drop at the end that we were reading about women the whole time. Play with it and see how you best write "looks."


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For my last Action/Adventure newsletter "Unusual Lead" Open in new Window., I got the following replies:


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You are very welcome.

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