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  • 1
  • 10 Lies About Fighting Writers Shouldn’t Believe
  • A
  • Adrenaline – The Un-Sunny Side
  • Adrenaline: The Sunny Side
  • An Editor’s Perspective on Writing Fight Scenes
  • Attacked by More Than One Person
  • B
  • Behold, the Hunga Munga
  • Being a Good Writer (and Being Ok With It)
  • Blade Damage – Differences In Blade Damage
  • Blade Damage – Knife Wounds (GRAPHIC)
  • Blade Damage – Vital Targets
  • Blade Damage – What Will Kill
  • Blades and Their Purpose Part I – Single vs Double Edge
  • Blades and Their Purpose Part II (And Carrying Them)
  • Bladework
  • Block a Fight Scene Tip
  • Blocking a Fight Scene – Mapping
  • Blood Loss and Fighting
  • Blood Pattern Evidence
  • Body Punches – The Cons and the Defense
  • Body Punches – The Pros
  • Breaking Zip Ties – For Writers
  • Bringin’ a Knife to a Gun Fight, Chop vs Punch – FightWriters Luke Scott & Johne Cook
  • Bullwhips Use & Bullwhip Injuries
  • C
  • Calling 911 Around the World
  • Carrying a Katana on Your Back
  • Carrying a Sword on Your Back
  • Catapults (and Cow-tapults)
  • Cauliflower Ear
  • Character Size and Fighting Styles
  • Collecting Evidence Step by Step
  • Crime Scene Clean Up – Post Mortem Biohazards
  • Crime Scene Cleaning
  • Crime Scene Cleaning Pt 2 – Writer Questions
  • Crime Scenes: Call to Clean-Up, Pt 2 Dispatch, EMS, FD, PD
  • Criminal Sketch Art
  • CSI Myths to Avoid in your Writing
  • D
  • Dark Matter Fight Scene – Featured FightWriter: Lisa Godfrees
  • Decomposition Stages
  • Describing Pain for Writers and their Character
  • Dislocating A Thumb to Escape Handcuffs
  • Do Women Kill Less Often than Men?
  • Don’t Write Authentic Fight Scenes
  • E
  • Emergency Room Terms for Writers
  • Escaping Handcuffs – Part Two
  • F
  • Fight Flight Responses for Characters
  • Fight Scene Critique With Writer’s Digest
  • Fight Scene Pacing
  • Fight Scenes – How Much to Write
  • Fight Scenes with Injured Characters
  • Fight Scenes With Magic
  • Fight Technique for Writers – X Choke
  • Fight Write Round Two Muchahuahua
  • Fight Write, Round Two Motivation
  • Fighting a Bloodied Opponent
  • Fighting a Larger Opponent – Pt 2
  • Fighting a Larger Opponent – Striking
  • Fighting At Night – Travis Perry
  • Fighting in Water – Featured FightWriter: Linda Kozar –
  • Fighting in Zero-G – FightWriter: Jonathan Clay:
  • Fighting Monsters
  • Fighting Robots
  • Firearms Part I – Handguns
  • Firearms Part II – Rifles & Shotguns
  • Firearms Stats – Where, Who, Aftercare
  • P
  • Protected: For Subscribers Only!!!
  • G
  • Getting Hit in the Face
  • H
  • Healing Time
  • Hitting a Pro
  • How a Fighter Feels After the Fight – Bubba Bush
  • How People Who Don’t Know How to Fight, Fight?
  • How Realistic Are Martial Arts in a Real Fight – Featured FightWriter: S. E. M. Ishida –
  • How to Fight a Turkey
  • How to Headbutt
  • How to Move a Corpse for WRITERS
  • How to Punch
  • How to Punch – Step by Step for Writers
  • How to Write a Fight Scene That Flows and Is Easy to Follow
  • How Women Kill
  • How Your Female Fighter Looks
  • Human Bites
  • I
  • Improvised Weaponry
  • Improvised Weaponry Part Dos
  • Injuries by Firearms Part 3 – Details
  • Injuries by Magic: Four Things to Consider
  • J
  • Jo Staff
  • Jousting for Writers
  • K
  • Killing a Horse & Fighting with Compromised Limbs – Featured FightWriter: Serena Dawson
  • Knife Vocab and a Great Video!
  • Knock Out Punches
  • L
  • Liver Punch
  • N
  • NaNoWriMo Fight Scene Guide
  • Not Really a Post
  • P
  • Perineum Stab
  • Picking a Fighting Style – Your Character
  • Picking a Fighting Style for Your Character – Era/Culture
  • Picking a Fighting Style for Your Character 2 – Site
  • Predicting Assault W/ and W/O Weapons
  • Psychological Warfare – Gaslighting Pt 2, What Gaslighters Say
  • Psychological Warfare – Gaslighting Pt 3, Victim Response
  • Psychological Warfare – Gaslighting Pt1, Making a Gaslighter
  • Psychopath/Sociopath – Organized/Disorganized
  • R
  • Recovering from Blood Loss
  • Redirecting Momentum
  • P
  • Protected: Romantasy Summit Slides
  • S
  • Shame, Guilt and Regret
  • Showing Fear and Anxiety
  • Staph
  • P
  • Protected: Story Embers Conference Notes
  • S
  • Street Fighting vs Sanctioned Fighting – Savannah Grace
  • Stupid Kicks
  • P
  • Protected: Subscribers Only – Getting “Classy”
  • S
  • Surviving a Throat Cut – Featured FightWriter: Heather Titus
  • Suturing With Needles and Bugs
  • Sword Forging
  • Swordbreakers
  • T
  • The Claymore – The Good and The Not Great
  • The CSI Effect – Evidence Readers Expect to See
  • The Geek Block podcast w/ Edged Weapons Expert, Kirk McCune
  • The Truth About the Polygraph Test
  • The WHY Changes the Fight
  • Threatening with a Weapon – Why John Wick Doesn’t
  • Trauma Responses For Characters
  • Two Sword Fighting – Estilo Macabebe
  • Types of Crime Scene Evidence
  • Types of Kicks
  • Types of Punches
  • U
  • Universal Facial Expressions
  • Using Animals in Fight Scenes
  • W
  • Welcome back Kata! – Bo and Jo Staff Basics
  • Western Sword Vocabulary
  • What Bullets Do to the Body & More
  • What Fight Scenes Can Do For Your Story
  • What Fighters Think About While Fighting
  • What Happens in an Autopsy – for Writers
  • What Writers Can Learn About Knives from John Wick
  • What Writers Can Learn from John Wick
  • What Your Character Should NOT Do When they Punch
  • Where People Are Stabbed
  • Where to Punch a Character and Why
  • Where Your Fight Scene Takes Place
  • Why Your Character is Fighting
  • Would You Kill A Robot?
  • Wounds By Firearms Pt 2 Bullets and Wound Pics
  • Write Fight Scenes with Dialogue Realistic?
  • Writing a Fight Scene Step-by-Step
  • Writing Action – Large Movement
  • Writing Action – Making The Reader Wince
  • Writing Action – What Not To Write
  • Writing Deception – Verbal Content and Style
  • Writing Female Fighters
  • Writing Fighting Multiple Opponents
  • Writing Poison
  • Writing Poison – Medical Jargon
  • Writing Poisonous Plants and Snakes
  • Writing Prompts for Kids!
  • Writing PTSD 1
  • Writing PTSD 2
  • Writing Scenes With Sparring
  • Writing Weapons of Opportunity
  • X
  • X-Choke Arm Bar

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