Advanced Tips and Tricks for Writing Action/Adventure Novels

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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Gearing Your Life Towards Adventure

It could be that you’ve reached a turning point in your life, or just that you’d like to try something new, but whatever the reason, when adventure comes calling it may just be a good idea to answer! Here are three ways to gear your life towards adventure.

Versatility. One of the keys to being able to include more adventure into your life is versatility. If you’re stuck in a 9-5 job, however, breaking out of that structure for the sake of shaking things up may be a difficult task. Yes, we all need to pay the bills somehow, but with remote work becoming more and more common it may just be time to re-evaluate career possibilities for the sake of something new.

Experiences not things. Some of life’s greatest adventures come with a hefty price tag, it’s an inescapable reality. It may be tempting to think that those experiences are simply unaffordable or out of reach, but that may not necessarily be true. For all the funds we sink into the latest tech there’s a world of experience that remains untouched, but when the money is set aside for that next big adventure instead of that next phone upgrade, the shift in priorities makes that grand adventure just a little bit more accessible.

Embracing the unknown. Many of us seek the comfort and familiarity of routine, but that comfort can become complacency quicker than we think. Breaking out of traditional routines can leave us open to the unknown, and it’s in the unknown that the greatest of life’s adventures lie.

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Quotes To Spark Your Next Adventure

Adventure awaits at every corner, but sometimes we need just a bit of extra motivation to get the adventure started. What better place to look for that motivation than in books? Here are three great quotes to get your next wondrous adventure off the ground.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.”

-Robert Frost

From The Road Not Taken, first published in 1916 in Robert Frost’s collection of poems: Mountain Interval. Frost’s words are ones to live by, and speak to far more than a simple walk through the woods serving as an apt analogy for life and the choices one makes within.

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

-H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Often erroneously attributed to Mark Twain, this inspiring sentiment actually comes from Brown’s 1991 book: P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last. Actually, if we’re being totally accurate, the quote should be attributed to Brown’s mother…

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“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

-Robert Louis Stevenson

From one of Stevenson’s first published works: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879). The value of travel for travel’s sake should never be overlooked.

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