
Does the character actively call out loud for someone or something to help them? Does anyone come to their aid? Is it magical or ordinary? Where has this person or being been all that time? Was this all a test to begin with? Is there magic involved? Are there a new philosophies or new rules that doesn’t pertain to our own world, involved? If so, who is controlling this? Does the character have an idea who might be behind these doing? Is there anything out of the usual? Does it become too much for the character to handle to where they will need someone or something to help them? Maybe it’s the animals and life that live in the forest or the forest itself. Do they meet someone along the way? Is there a barrier or path they cannot take or overcome? Or do they find a great shortcut? Is a shortcut even safe? B. Explain their thoughts, the worries, even ultimately telling the reader what’s at stake for the character. His/her own gasping breath in the silence.Branches in the face and tearing at clothes.I. Think of all the things you might find in a dark forest and make them experience it. How they connect with the forest atmosphere and the creatures who dwell inside this area. Use ideologies, metaphors, and similes to create an experience your character is having. Or keep it a mystery to enhance the dynamics of your story. Ultimately how are these things good? Give signs and behavior patterns that will differentiate them from good and evil. What about the animals and the forest is important to the story and to the character? How are they a vital allie to the trail and the path of the rain forest? Give hint to how they will be a part of the journey. Describe how these things have a connection to the story and to the overall plot. birds (Congo peafowl, African Gray Parrot) to name a few.Ĭ.mammals (antelopes, bonobo, chimpanzee, gorilla, Mandrill, scaly-tailed squirrels, otter shrews, duikers, okapi, hippopotamus, Cercopithecus monkeys, bushbabies, pygmy hippo, duiker).insects (Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing butterfly, Goliath Birdwing butterfly, Saturn Butterfly) to name a few.West Africa –.birds (tree swifts, leafbirds, fairy bluebirds, fantails, whistlers, flowerpeckers, wood swallows).mammals (tarsiers, orangutans, Siamangs, gibbons, colobine monkeys, tigers, tree shrews, binturong, moonrats, most flying foxes, colugos, bamboo rats, Oriental dormice).


Amphibians (Giant Tree frog, Striped marsh frog, Northern Barred frog, Dainty Green Tree frog), and millions of other animals.Southeast Asia –.Reptiles (frilled lizard, carpet python, Green Tree Snake, Spotted Tree Monitor, Eastern Water Dragon, Boyd’s Forest Dragon, Northern Leaf Tailed Gecko).Mammals (tree kangaroo, rat kangaroo, yellow-footed Antechinus, Giant White-tailed Uromys, opossums, bandicoot, echidna, duck-billed platypus, sugar glider, red legged pademelon)

