Action Scenes--Readers and Writers

What do you look for in action scenes as readers and writers?

Do you look for action scenes that rip your arm away from a page, turning to the next until late in the night? Action scenes that reach down your throat making you gasp for breath, or conflict and bold action seeming impossible to perform, but you love it anyway.

In addition, when "The End" arrives, you strut around several hours thinking that you have lived a full life. Realizing in time that you were immersed in the characters lives of the book, you had laid rest.

I have been there, and in my opinion, reading gives us the exact amount of emotional release, with little cost.

It is a pity that there are a dwindling number of readers for pleasure anymore.

However, if there were more inspiring authors like J.K. Rowling, that conclusion may be reversing.

This great author gave-birth too many a new reader.

My questions to you, the writers are...

Which authors do you most resonate with in their action, and conflict scenes?

Do you have any examples? 

How about your best action or scenes of conflict?

In your opinion, what makes the best action scenes?  Explosions i.e. the special effects created in your mind, and or a protagonist escaping or prevailing against incredible odds, or outright craftiness.

The novel I am working on is my first

Star Light Star Bright, my rough draft is about a boy at the age of thirteen becomes a Para pelagic and discovers he has abilities beyond his functioning physical body.

I began this story some years ago and put it away. Upon viewing the movie AVATAR, I thought it was very similar to my creation in sever ways, so I pulled my creation out of the desk drawer and motivated on.

I would like them to emulate the emotions that I attempted to portray to you-- so feed back would be helpful.

What say you?

Mustache Lovers

There was some, to do on Facebook for a time and I thought it funny so I made an offering...

Bare with me on my observations ...

I am not sure about mustache lovers ... but I do know about mustache owners.

I know that mustache owners for the most part are dedicated milk lovers.

Yes, that is true--we love milk so much-- that is the reason we grew a mustache.

Who do you think created the popular advertisement...? "Got Milk".

Yes, it had to be a mustache owner.

You can only imagine when that commercial aired on television the mustache community went bonkers.

Every time we heard it, we discretely stuck our tongue out of our mouth, raising it to the residue of milk that rested there from our last swig.

There is also another little shared truth about mustache owners.

The secret is that no one will know if we are Grandpas or guys that have recently enjoyed a glass of ice-cold MILK:)

Writers Source

Whether you are an accomplished writer, painter, sculptor, actor or artist of any sorts—one always needs to connect to their SOURCE.
That steady infinite stream of ideas that pop into your imagination. “Where did I get that?”
That ah ha!
The knowledge from your Omnipresent or ubiquitous source...  

How many times have you stood outside a door knocking, in the cold, the rain, the snow blowing, or the oppressive heat. Were you imagining what was on the other side? A warm, dry and friendly room with fireplace, or air conditioning with possibly a swimming pool out back. 

Was there ever a moment for a split second that your imagination was so electric, that time froze, and your dream became true?

It is only to read some of the best works of writers, novelists, sculptors, actors, dancers and artists of every type—to know without question that they have lived through their art, whether realizing it or not.

In the King James version of The Holy Bible Matthew 7-8: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

8For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

Explosive Creativity is a process just like life.

Help yourself, open that door often.

I do not like those long drawn out sales letters, asking you to buy the product until the writers sales creativity tires.

I have never finished one, and many I become so irritated I bailed from the sale.

Sooooo, if you have and itch, please buy my sessions.

Then, proceed with me on our journey … and YOU—Become what you want to become.

Your friend Dave (LooseBolt)

Sessions in a Box:

Past Life Smoking, Unlimited Creativity, Public Speaking MP3s and cds

Where do you get your ... story?

Do you model after another story? Author?

Do you just begin the quest to complete a work? Or, like myself, just screwing around writing a few pages and read what I have written.

"Hey, that doesn't sound too bad," we may say, and become interested enough to see where this thing is going, and write some more.

I do that. Just putzing around I began a story, and then put it away for a year. Maybe it had three pages at best. About a year or so later, I went to the movies and see Avatar, in 3D ... what a great ride.

I thought ... that is allot — kind of sort of — like the story I began.

I went home and now I am 54000 words into it. My story was not in another distant world, but it had similarities, that were too interesting to pass up.

And... What about killing off characters. Do we clandestinely plot and kill them off when they least expect it?

Perhaps an inner voice says, "Do IT, do it know!"

I will give you an example.

I will call my character a bad guy, but you could call him a villain, antagonist, or what ever you want.

One evening I was just writing along when this little voice popped into my brain and said that it was time to kill this bad guy.

Well, in my mind I answered back that I had no intentions of killing off this particular bad guy, and that he is staying with me to the end, and at the least another thirty-thousand words...for, that little voice must have had some pretty powerful MOJO, cause about one-hundred and fifty words, more or less and that bad guy had a blade pulled right across his throat, his body crumpling onto the carefully placed plastic sheeting that he discovered only fractions of second before he dropped ... DEAD.

Whew, that was allot to say in one breath.

You will get to meet him when I begin my introduction to my 'characters' somewhere soon when that little voice from within says, NOW!

This thing we call Fiction Writing ... It is a mystery. What is your take on it?

Dave Powell

When I have enough followers asking for story review, I will begin.

For now, I am still figuring out how to blog. 

My Opinion on Writing and Reading fiction for pleasure or pain.

From where, does our creative content come? It is a mystery.

Could it originate in an alternative universe, or systems that we cannot comprehend, only to be expressed by our past or future experiences in those universes, or systems?

On the other hand, perhaps it is tapping into the collective consciousness (all human thought from the beginning) or the infinite collective consciousness (collection of all thought, from all life form—physical, non-physical, animal, vegetable ... Everything. ARE      we writers, merely putting to paper events from the past present or future and reporting them as we see or saw it?

And... Since there is no end, only an expanding now—isn't there endless scenarios of our soul's experiences.

Pretty cool to think about it — what do you think?

Made in the USA

You know… I have been a proponent, a fanatic, a nostalgic supporter of buy made in the USA for decades now.

Born in 1946, you might say, that I have seen the best of this wonderful land and its people.

But… I became excited the other day when I discovered Levi’s, yeah, our good ole denim Levi’s actually Made in the USA.

I went to the web site and about crapped my wallet.

$140.00 was an average price.

Now I am not cheap, but can’t afford much of that…

If this is a sign at what prices will be, to bring-it-back … then I believe our job base, of upward mobility and robust economy, is doomed to extinction.

What’s Lost is Lost, and never can return.

Labor Unions began causing the exodus, greed, and politicians playing the international game perpetuated it, and we the people bought into it.

Now folks we are stuck in the hardening results … the cement of a global economy.