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Each day is a blank page, an adventure to be written, action and re-action ~ be pro-active. Writing itself is action ~ creating an adventure for your readers to embrace in prose or verse.
Welcome to this week's Action/Adventure Newsletter, where we explore (action) adventures to create for our characters, our readers, ourselves.
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Greetings Fellow Adventurers!
You've an idea, an adventure you can picture in your mind. How to paint that picture in words so your characters can live the adventure in prose and in verse, and that your readers can join them, engaging your otherworld.
First, consider the where of it. Imagine all the scenes you have in mind; jot down the details, make notes and sketch if you will. You want to show the place, the location, the time of day or night, the smells, the time of year as you perceive it all in your mind..
Now, show who's there. Is your protagonist there yet, show us what he/she sees, tastes, touches; what he/she is wearing, how he/she looks. What about the opponents? Are there bystanders, shopkeepers, weapons traders, friends (or sidekicks) of the protagonist/antagonist?
What's in the scene to aid or foil the characters - trees, barricades, freeway overpasses, chemicals, poison, weapons, animals, vehicles? Is there a safe hiding place or an open field for battle?
What happens? This is character-driven for the most part, but something may jump-start the action. Is it a car crash, a chemical spill, a cashier taken hostage in an apparent robbery?
Now, move it! Move from one place to another; the characters act within the scene and engage each other and the obstacles they face in order to move forward in their adventure. Keep your characters on the go. Think KISS - keep it simple scribe  Alternate action with exposition that advances the story to the next step. The expositions that help move the story quickly and effectively are most likely related in dialogue between characters before or after a battle or engagement. Then the next hurdle is reached and engaged.
Yes, you're engaged in a "plot." It develops as your adventure unfolds through action. Plot's not a 'dirty word.' It's not a formula, but a dynamic engagement among the characters in the adventure and your readers, who follow in the path of the characters and try to get one step ahead of them. It's kind of like a heartbeat, with excitement building then resolving (briefly) before another challenge or task is engaged. A successful action adventures isn't formed by the sequence of events which occurs, but the pace of the events. As long as interesting things are happening one after another (preferably too quickly for the characters - and readers - to note inconsistencies in your plot - which can be resolved in subsequent interaction) things are working.
Think of the adventures you most enjoy reading, watching and, yes, writing. Whether you begin with an outline or write "seat of the pants" you find a plot unfold as the adventure actively unfolds, each scene building upon events in the action of and interaction among your characters that engaes your readers as well as your characters!
Engage the adventure 
Kate
Kate - Writing & Reading
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