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Is There No Room For Adventure?

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Old School Adventure Goodness Old School Adventure Goodness

Long ago, there were adventures.  The plots were fun and the characters weren’t as realistic as those of today.  Conan was big, fast, strong, and brutal with the ability to survive everything.  Also an odd penchant for choking enemies more than beheading them.  At least in the collection I read.  Anyway, these were the days of the fun escapism and pulp fiction.  Feels like another world when I read those stories and I’m not talking about where Conan is wandering.  It’s like there was an old society that cherished these kinds of tales more than we do today.

I’ve been playing with such a series while I try to get my head together.  Yet, I keep coming back to one question:

IS THERE STILL A PLACE FOR ADVENTURES?

You don’t see things like this any more.  People seem to want epic-spanning tales, hot romance, angst, death…

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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