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WRITING HELP // inspiration, ideas, and more!FIGHT SCENES
Here are a list some of our posts that may be helpful to you:
Five Simple Ways to Write Convincing Fight Sequences
Fight Write: A Basic Upper Body Primer (Open Hand)
Fight Write: A Basic Upper Body Primer (Fists)
Fight Write: The Art of Stepping
Fight Write: The Art of Blocking
Tip: Fights Start for a Reason
ObsidianMichi’s Real World Fight Facts
Fight Write: The Only Unfair Fight is the One You Lose Part 1
The Only Unfair Fight is the One You Lose Part 2 (Brutality)
Unusual Martial Art: Street Fighting
Fight Write: Art, Sport, Subdual, and Lethality
Also check anything in our Michael Janich tag, he is a very good instructor who teaches self-defense. I refer people to his videos for the work he does with concepts, where he actively explains what a technique is, what it does, and why it’s used before teaching the technique. As a writer, you need both technique and concept before you can put it on the page.
I plan on doing a write up on both elbows and knees in the near future. There’s a lot of misconceptions about how these techniques work.
Also check out Tamora Pierce’s Tortall series particularly First Test and Page in The Protector of the Small quartet. Tamora Pierce is one of the few authors that write fight scenes I feel comfortable recommending for reference.
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