 Action/Adventure: February 24, 2016 Issue [#7499] |
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This week: Get to the Punch Edited by: Storm Machine  
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The fight is one or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. Muhammad Ali
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. ~Terry Pratchett |
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Fight scenes are extremely difficult to write. You, as the author, might have every detail in your head. You might rehearse the moves with friends and family (whether they're willing or not), and have diagrams to help
you get through each of these movements in order to write it perfectly.
Perfectly choreographed or not, what's in the author's head may not translate to the reader. We each bring our own ideas to the tale. It doesn't help to describe it down to the last little detail. "Aaron saw the fist leveled at him, moving too fast to dodge and landing exactly on the bridge of his horn-rimmed glasses with devastating crunch." (Did his nose crunch, or the glasses? Does it matter to your storytelling?) It's not just acceptable but often preferable to leave some of these details to the reader's imagination. Too many words will slow your pace wht en you're looking to keep the fight moving.
Your perspective must match your intent. Is it to follow the villain take someone down? Or is it from the victim's side to see how everything went wrong? While you don't need to switch to first person or third person for a fight scene, you need to use your chosen story perspective to make the fight work.
Use physical sensations, rather than a lot of description. Did the attacker rip clothing? Did the hand come away from the nose sticky with blood? What do you smell and feel and hear and taste from this interchange? That will bring your readers farther into your narrative than a clinical blow-by-blow.
Don't be afraid to skip showing the fight. You might start with a conversation alluding to violence, and then show the effects. |
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Dandelion Man 
I enjoyed your explaination of the hawkeye cauci
Glad you enjoyed it. It's been a unique experience this year.
Monty 
Thank you for an interesting News Letter.
Thank you!
Quick-Quill 
In my novel, the mob has control over the Portland Police. Since my novel is based on true events, politics has run amuck for many years. I'm not so sure it isn't still running things in the local and state government.
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