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Artifacts
Why are action adventure heroes obsessed with artifacts?
One famous Henry Jones, commonly known as "Indiana Jones" spends his time hunting for artifacts. On his travels, he has many perilous adventures. Many times, the perils are in direct connection with the artifact he tries to find, sometimes they are just weird or scary things that happen to him. And then there are the giant bugs. Always giant bugs. But let's not get sidetracked by those wienerdog sized termites. 
But why is he so obsessed with those artifacts and why does he insist on bringing them home to where he is? Simple: without a quest, there is no story. Many Indiana Jones stories revolve around his discovery of an ancient artifact that is hidden in a faraway place and he wants to find and take it home to find out what it really does. Of course, he encounters others with the same goal along the road and so they have to race one another to the finish line.
Indiana Jones is not the only action adventure hero who is obsessed with artifacts. It's more that he is a very famous version of an archetype character.
Since this type of character is so easily recognizable, it gives you, the action adventure writer the opportunity to write stories that focus on the story at hand and don't spend too much time building up a believable character. The adventurer on a quest for an artifact is just fine with one basic reason why they want to find it. Henry Jones is a historian, he wants to find out more about the history of an artifact. Another adventurer might hope to sell an artifact, his/her reason is financial gain. Either way, both of those can be believable story starters.
And that is why action adventure heroes are obsessed with artifacts: the story practically writes itself once you've decided on an artifact and a reason to find it.
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Responses to my last Action/Adventure newsletter "Exciting Stories"
Elfin Dragon-finally published  wrote: It's funny you should write about the difference between old and new world action/adventure stories. Mostly because I have a tendency to write more like those old world writers; being long-winded with descriptions and set-up chapters. I was told by someone reviewing my first few chapters that he was waiting for some action and yet when I look at it I can't see where action can be before I plan to put it.
All I can tell you without reading your first chapters is: try to show your world through the actions of the characters. What I mean by that is that instead of describing a landscape as if looking at a painting, have your character walk through it and interact with it. Think jumping over a small stream or getting pricked by thorns. Also, have the story or plot begin during that description. That way, you can keep your world building chapters, but also give your readers something to sink their action hungry teeth into.
Monty  wrote: I believe you did a great job of writing this news letter and pointed to some true but I can remember reading of the crash in the alps when it got boring to me but when I was about to close the book it caught my interest again. Never sorry that I read it.
Maybe that one kept you reading because it was real events. Real life has boring parts, but it's easier to stick to those boring parts as a reader because you know there is going to be a conclusion.
GaelicQueen  wrote: Excellent advice. Long dissertations on characters or where they are or going are fine for world building. A writer can write freely in each character, venue, or bio while prepping an outline or be writing the first ROUGH draft. In the editing process, those magical prose must be tightened to keep the reader on task.
Yes, I also think that there has to be some action early on, even during world building chapters.
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