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Sing it with me! Under the Sea!
It's a Disney song that always cheers me up!
It's also a reminder that our actions and adventures can happen underwater. Have you looked at pictures of some of those under-the-sea creatures? Some are so crazy but have their purpose. I have to say, having one of those anglerfish headlamps would be very handy. Or a barreleye fish, a fish that has a clear skull and his eyes inside his head. It's much like a diving helmet. And if you need some landscaping help, a sawfish saw would be the thing to have. Maybe not permanently attached, that could be bad, very bad. Especially for the passengers in my car, right?
With all these crazy creatures under the sea, do we need to make one up? Maybe. And it would certainly be plausible because of the already unique fish there. And why not bring them on to land? They'd need a way to move around, but doesn't a flying fish do that? Nature does a fine job of creating creatures adapted to their habitat. Think about the features your character or creature needs and shape them to suit the job.
And as always, Write On!
This month's question: Have you created unusual animals or characters?
How do you fit that in your writing?
Answer below  Editors love feedback! 
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Excerpt: For as far back as I can remember I have always been fascinated by the idea that rivers join rivers and eventually run to the sea. It has made every little creek or bayou I encounter look to me like a highway to anywhere on earth.
Naturally, as a result of this, I quickly developed a fascination with maps and boats. For some reason, this love of boats has never extended to power craft, but if it moves by paddle power, wind or just drifts with the current I am fascinated with it.
Excerpt: He watched her stare at her naked finger in horror, and knew instantly what had happened. Losing a ring in the ocean was akin to tossing it in a volcano or flinging it into a chasm.
Excerpt: “There’s nothing to do.” Jack placed his empty glass on the bar. “Lived here all my life and every day’s the same. That’s why I sometimes think of leaving. See the world before my time’s up. At least see the ocean. But blood’s thicker than water.”
Excerpt: Shane reached out his hand and skimmed the water. The water peppered an adjacent wave as his bare feet clung to the board. The wind pushing the sail.
Excerpt: Bob shuffled along the shoreline below picturesque cliffs. The sun shone in a cloudless sky. Scooping up a pebble, he lobbed it into the sparkling surf. This was the most depressing day in his life
Excerpt: In the deepest depths of Ocean, a whale named Steve existed. He was a normal whale, comprised of ordinary whale parts and parcels.
Excerpt: He slowly walks back over to the edge of the water and looks in. He can see the figure swimming below like it is slightly frightened by the fact it was caught on camera. Then it looks as if it is about to pounce. As it swims up, it terrifies Lucas, causing him to slip backward hitting the ground with a thud. The creature emerges half of its body out of the water, half still within.
Excerpt: Misty Blue. Pieces of the song slip along the corners of my mind. I had heard it somewhere, but can't place where or when. I squat in front of a small, seaside boardwalk shop, trying to remember. Scores of vacationers pass by. Do they see my loose shirt? It's light, breathable cotton and letting it fall open cools my skin in the hot summer sun.
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This month's question: Have you created unusual animals or characters?
How do you fit that in your writing?
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Last month's "Action/Adventure Newsletter (April 10, 2024)" question: What was your favorite world you've built?
How did you use that in your writing?
Olivia: Hockey SVK-LAT 2:3  : It was not so much a world I created but to find a world that already existed to be "confirmed".
Many of my stories and a (yet unfinished) NaNo-based novel series is set in NYC, and here namely in Staten Island, Manhattan and Queens.
It was so stunning – and at some spots creepy – how correct I caught settings, including Manhattan traffic, subway, the gritty, partly rotten serenity of SI, etc. which I could only research via web pages, wikipedia, google earth... It felt so familiar walking these places (and adjusting the overall story of the stories'/series' leading couple).
I felt like kicked out of the country when I had to return to Europe... which is BS as I'm German and my "holiday" was finito.
What if it all means something 
SP is Muddling through  : I really really liked Ocean Princess City. Twenty four miles out in the Atlantic ocean. International waters and a floating city. A cruise ship as the city hall mored in a central harbor of artificial islands. Nearly one hundred years in the future.
It was the setting for over half of my NaNo novel last year. It was so pretty and organized in my mind. Too bad the novel's rubbish.
MayDay : In one series I've started, I had the main character travel to an alternate reality or something where there are only twelve hours in a day. Also, the inhabitants of this new world are super unadvanced. They don't even have weapons.
Mousethyme  : My favorite world I've built will forever remain my own fantasy world where the game I used to play with my friends is set. All the others who used to play have vanished through the gates of time and death. I like to try to go there still but it seems to be getting further and further out of my reach........
oldgreywolf scribbles : The first one. of course The one with the training wheels.
And the obligatory crashed space ship from Terra (it was the 70s).
By itself, it's an excellent example of how not to write, and it required a lot of research to correct.
One way or another, it contributes to my worldbuiding, my occasional story.
Some, probably most, of you will understand without difficulty. Some might. Some won't.
Good night.
Beholden  : Your question hits the target with me - yes, I have a world constructed over a lifetime and it contains a geological feature that is quite unique. One of the small islands that make up an archipelago is essentially a mountain massif in the west that butts on to a very low lying plain to the east. So low lying, in fact that the plain wa originally just underwater, even at high tide. A particular type of moss was able to grow in these circumstances and, as it died down and left its remains for more moss to grow upon, many millennia of such growth allowed the moss to reach the surface and create an apparently flat plain of land covered by low vegetation. Only it isn't. Underneath the living moss on the surface is the squishy mass of rotting, dead plants, substantial enough to support its descendants above, but giving way immediately to anything as heavy as a foot stepping on to the seemingly dry land above. The result is a deadly plain just waiting for the carefree explorer to set foot on its surface and be swallowed into oblivion by the quagmire beneath.
I think it was inspired by the island of Jura in Scotland, which has some low lying bogs so treacherous that there are large parts of the island that have never been explored to this day. I've never used my imagined island but some day some poor, unsuspecting individual might land there and never be seen again.
Monty  : World in the wild west surly a favorite.
StephBee  : I think I prefer building words with a touch of the medieval landscape. One of my favorites was this vinyette, "The Green Rose" . I would like to take on more dystopian landscapes.
s : favourite world I've built? Well, it's not a world, but a town, in mid-north South Australia. Called Dragoton, it has been the setting for a few novels and a bunch of short stories. If I look at a world, the world of the unnamed planet I used in a fantasy-scifi novel that I have with a beta reader at the moment. The people, the animals, the water-based geography - it was so much fun to create.
Thanks to everyone responding, your comments are appreciated and helpful! L~
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