What About Action Stories?
Description
I make this easy and handy guide for you, future writers, in hope that it will walk you through creating an exciting story that will have your readers eating out of your hand. I'll also take some advices from several blogs/sites to be posted here, if that's really needed.
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Disclaimer: This is based on the workshop "How to be an AFF Writing God". Not that I impersonating that workshop, I just inspired by them to help others. And here, I'm willing to guide you guys with my own workshop, not about how to write well, it's about how to write an action fanfic.
Foreword
What about action stories?
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Introduction
Hello! I'm Feiruru, you can call me Fei, Ruru or anything you want. I'm here with my very first workshop. The reason I make this is because I found a bunch of romantic and fantasy stories here and there, but barely seen action stories even though they are under the 'action' tag.
"Action" is a rather broad term and the word conjures up images of fight scenes, car crashes, gorgeous people getting it on. How you would describe an epic battle between two great armies versus a one on one between two characters is quite different....and ironically, the bigger a scene gets, the less descriptive on all the individual elements you need to be. There are a lot of great action writers out there to steal from... I mean study.
I actually have never written a long action story, yet, I tried out and end up with All I Ever Wanted starring MBLAQ's Joon. It's really short and I don't think it's great but I enjoyed writing it.
Not going to lie, action stories are hard to write(Yes, I repeated that) because the most familiar obstacle we have here is that we are limited by the fact that often reader uses one sense/sight when reading action fics. In movies and TV shows, they have sight and sound while we don't. Don't underistimate the importance of sound in action scenes. Really think about how much sound affects us, eh? /sigh. Beside that, to write action scene need a lot of researches. My, and every action writer's keys are technical correctness, blocking and perspective. The first means that I try not to write about what I don't know. It drives me crazy when I read something that I know is wrong... so the first thing I do is basic research into the elements involved. About gun, which martial art style, what kind of troops or whatever, and have a ready list of terms on a side document if I'm not already familiar with them. Most of all, it's the abilities of the focus characters.
I know you have had enough spat of mine, so I'll start this workshop. ;)
My sources:
(I explain things from these blogs with more understandable English)
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More to go...
Hi this is Liza. I'm taking over this workshop from chapter 6 since Fei can't continue due to some unknown reasons. But don't worry, I'm as kind as her xD
Well, thank you if you check this out, comment, subscribe or upvote. I'm hoping that it really helps you all, future writers <3
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