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Action/Adventure: March 01, 2017 Issue [#8150]

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 This week: Five Stories
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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

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


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Letter from the editor

Five Stories


What is this "Five Stories" you speak of?


When your action adventure is in need of plot, look here.


Action adventure stories have five main types of plot.

REVENGE

Your hero was offended by the villain. This could be: left for dead, killed relative or love interest, or did anything else to make hero angry. Now, your hero is out for revenge. Think Hamlet.

ESCAPE/SIEGE

The hero is trapped and has to find a way out with the use of cunning, skills, weapons, or other tools and methods. A typical place to escape from could be a prison. Think Count of Montecristo.

ASSASSINATION

Related to revenge, this plot will have a lone hero or group of heroes go after someone who did something evil in the past or present. This hero or group may or may not have feelings about the deed to be done. It could be for money, fame, or because "it's the right thing to do." Think James Bond and his many adventures.

OPPRESSION

The hero defends a group of helpless victims from getting abused by a villain. The hero will usually do this one out of the goodness of his heart or for love. Think The Hunger Games.

KIDNAP

The hero didn't pay attention and someone stole a person near to his heart. Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills comes to mind in his role as a father whose daughter gets Taken, Taken 2, and Taken 3!!!



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 Rebel's Revenge Chapter 1 Open in new Window. (13+)
A small town is transported to an alien world
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a prison break from Château d’If that leads to...
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Vacation Escape Open in new Window. (E)
An eventful vacation.
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A solitary man who toils in obscurity is more than he appears.
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A fake kidnapping goes awry
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Two brothers thrown into an epic tale of warring kingdoms.(excerpt from my novel)*
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Ask & Answer

For my last Action/Adventure newsletter "Writing: A Roller Coaster" Open in new Window., I got the following replies:

SkyHawk - Into The Music Author Icon wrote: Octobersun,

you're right, writing can be a pretty wild adventure. And sometimes, you learn things about a character that you never knew (or put into the bio you crafted for them). In one case, I learned that a character in one of my NaNoWriMo projects some years ago had been a widower for some years, losing his wife to the effects/complications of a stroke she suffered while asleep one night. And another character had been divorced from his wife (at her insistence) while he was serving in the first Desert Storm conflict, with no custody of their three kids. I had not planned any of this; it was the adventure of writing that put it on the page before I fully realized the background.

It is truly amazing what those characters do to our books.

Monty Author Icon wrote: I thank you for highlighting my poem and for the very good N/L

You have a portfolio filled with things that should be read. Thank you for your kind assessment of my newsletter.

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