When you’re writing your next (or first) action/adventure story and you’d like to go just a bit beyond the basics, here are a few tips and tricks that may help along the way.
Interrupting actions with other actions. Linear action is traditional storytelling at its best, but sometimes adding some surprise makes for the perfect secret ingredient to your action/adventure story. Imagine a tense moment, a helpless hero/heroine at the mercy of his/her villainous foe as he/she slowly approaches, gun in hand, taking aim, only to be hit by a speeding car that seemingly came from out of nowhere.
Settings can be every bit as important as action. There’s no doubt that fast paced action is at the core of any great action/adventure novel, but the setting is a valuable tool that shouldn’t be overlooked. A hideout with limited access points could foreshadow a daring escape attempt, or a highly guarded fortress could foreshadow the stealth (or possibly brute force) the hero/heroine will need to achieve his/her goal.
All thriller, no filler. Keeping a swift pace throughout a novel means filtering out unnecessary words whenever possible for the sake of keeping sentences short. For example: “She noticed it was getting late” could easily be expressed as “It was getting late.” Details are certainly important and shouldn’t be sacrificed, but there’s often some room to trim the fat.
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