Let's talk fighting.

Fight scenes can be a two-edged sword.  On the one hand they look great and exciting... visually on the movie screen.  But trying to put that on paper can very quickly end up as something like "parry, parry, thrust, oh parry" for a couple of pages.  I learned very quickly that you have to get inventive.

Commentary:  Of course, there is always the back and forth comments to interject as the swordplay (or whatever) is going back and forth.  I use it a lot myself,  but our goal here is to create something visual that will jump out of the page at the reader.  We need to mix it up with a bit more action.

Inventive fight scenes:  Every terrain has its props, so use them.  The bush, that trash c...

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