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Action/Adventure: February 24, 2016 Issue [#7499]

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 This week: Get to the Punch
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About This Newsletter

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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Letter from the editor

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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 Titanosseum Open in new Window. (13+)
Colossal warriors face off over a land dispute, but something greater may be at stake.
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 Fight Scene  Open in new Window. (18+)
This is an excerpt from my story I need help with desperately.
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 The Will To Live Open in new Window. (13+)
Chased until he had had enough. Trey Long turns and fights back.
#2046563 by Bearclaw Author IconMail Icon

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Scene in an episode where Phoenix receives her alias & runs into someone she may know.
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A gladiator's only means of freedom is to lose in a fight to the death.
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 The Desperate Battle Open in new Window. (ASR)
LIght and darkness fight an imparative battle.
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 The Sun Above Open in new Window. (13+)
He fights his rival and his master and learns what is important.
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