The Thrill of the Hunt

I am sitting here watching the sun rise above the trees in front of my house. It is warm and inviting. I put my blanket and sweater aside and just soak up the sight and smell of the early morning. Dew is now gone, the birdsong is quieter too, and the red morning has grown. Silence is golden.

Ah words! Are they not beautiful?
Have you ever sat yourself down and thought how exciting they can be?
Words...they take the reader (just as they do the writer) to far off and amazing places.

"With a book you can be a princess, or a knight! And no one can tell you that you are too young to slay the dragon, because it is all done right here in the comfort and safety of your home." ~Marty Davis (Love Comes Softly)

The power of words truly do have a great affect on life, both positive and negative. With words one can build an army! The same can tear down a kingdom.

For me as a writer there is nothing I like better then to sit down at my laptop, with a cup of tea and by my open window (only on warm days....but sometimes I do it in the winter too) and write.
Currently I am working on three novels and multiple short stories, and I can not start to tell you how amazing it is to get that adrenaline rush as you and your character push on! As you guide him through a deadly assignment. As you and she shed tears over a loved one. As you and he spend his last moments together. As you and she stand over a gravestone remembering someone who has passed on.
Why is it the stereotypical 'adventures' get credit for doing fun things? I think that everyone is an adventurer at heart, and you don't have to propel down Mount Kilimanjaro to prove it! We writers are just the same....the only difference is that we can do it without moving a muscle, how cool is that?
We put people on the edge of their seat, we make them cry over fictional characters, we are the ones riding the horse, aiming the gun, letting the arrows fly; we are writers and we love nothing more than the thrill of the hunt.