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Action/Adventure: October 03, 2018 Issue [#9153]




 This week: What If ?
  Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading Author IconMail Icon
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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

Each day is a blank page, an adventure
to be written,
action and re-action ~
be pro-active


         Greetings! and Welcome to this week's edition of the WDC Action & Adventure Newsletter, I'm honored to be your Guest Editor on this journey to action.


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Letter from the editor

Greetings, fellow Adventurers

         Okay, "who, what, when, where, why." These are questions we ask when we weave a story or verse of adventure. These questions are not just for an essay or article, but what readers seek when they embark on a literary adventure in prose and verse. Think about it, when you begin reading a story, or a poem, don't you look for answers to these questions from the opening line forward? A reason to keep reading, to take up the adventure, to step for a time out of the mundane, the ordinary?

         But First, the Idea *BulbO* What If *Questiong*

         Ask first, 'what if.' What if this morning, while reading the tale of Poe's "Raven" a fly buzzes insistently and when Kim swats it on the bus seat behind her, there's a key under her hand, with an address imprinted on it and a note that says, 'use this within the hour or something will be lost forever.' Will Kim take up an aventure, calling off work from her cellphone to take a chance that this is something good, or that something bad will happen if she doesn't - to her or someone or someones else? Use the key how?

         'Why not' have Kim (and your reader) see a waiting cab and hop in, and give the cabbie the address, to which he refuses to drive. It's the answers to what if and why not that create action to make the adventure vivid and real for the characters, important even, and draw the reader into the story.

         If the spy doesn't take the case, if the treasure hunter doesn't get on the shuttle to Venusia (fictional), if the snake on the apple tree doesn't talk, then no action is taken and the adventure is done before it is begun.

         Once the adventure is begun, "why not" (think of postulates in math, physics ~ the old if/then)) whenever the adventurer encounters a foe, an adversary, obstacles both physical and emotional, a potential helper or friend, whether sentient or otherwise. He or she asks why, then considering the options or acting on impulse if necessary, says 'why not' and takes action to advance the adventure.

         Movement from one place or state of being or thought to another is taking action. Action enhances the conflict and tension and engages the adventurer in the quest, the adventure. It makes the adventure important to the adventurer and changes him/her in some way, positive or negative. The adventure continues until there is no longer a reason to ask 'why not.'

         Why not, give it a try, ask what if, once or twice or thrice, and craft an adventure in verse or prose ~ and along the way, check out a few adventures offered by several members of our Community who ask us, 'what if' ~ then consider (and write) 'why not'

Write On!!
Kate
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Editor's Picks

Check out these adventures in prose and verse ~ the 'what if' ~ and embark on the action, 'why not?' ~then, you too, 'why not' share your thoughts with the writer, yes, take action with a comment or review

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What if you were the only one who knew the truth? Would you be strong enough to tell it?
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It began with a drop on my forehead and ended with...well, you'll have to read.
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A young boy, an old man, and a vicious rider, all searching for what they cannot name.
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Ask & Answer

         Thank you for sharing this exploration with me ~ I hope you keep asking and plotting answers to 'what if' in prose and verse ~ then move it along by taking a chance ~ 'why not'

Until we next meet,
I wish you joy and fun in creating your adventures,

Write On!
Kate
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