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How to Make a Dangerous Character

FightWrite — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:15:51 +0000

What makes a character scary? Why does the circling shark make the men onboard the Orca tremble? Why does the hound roaming Dartmoor warrant a call to Sherlock Holmes? Why does a writer’s number one fan fill every cockadoodie reader with dread? The answer is simple. Each of these characters poses a physical threat. Why do they pose that threat? The answer to that isn’t quite so plain. In today’s post with FightWrite® on the WD blog, we are going to look at what makes a character dangerous, the framework behind judging the credibility of a threat and how we …

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Writing Scenes With Sparring

FightWrite — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:47:54 +0000

Sparring scenes matter. To write great scenes with sparring, we first need to understand what sparring is, isn’t, and what makes them great. If you look up “the best fighting movies of all time,” you will see a great deal of overlap in the top ten. I have seen many of those films and they all have something in common beyond fighting sequences. They all have scenes with sparring. Now, I don’t know about you, but I love those scenes. They are far more than action sequences. In this post, we will look at writing scenes with sparring. We will …

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Why Your Character is Fighting

FightWrite — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:34:18 +0000

Why anyone does anything is everything. Getting out of bed to go to work is a wholly different enterprise than getting out of bed because you hear your dog being sick. Why? Because the reason is different. Even if you love your job, you won’t fly out of that bed like you would upon hearing your pet summon gastric juices. The latter is a very “spring loaded” situation. You’re the same person, you’re still just getting out of bed. The difference is the why. It is the same with fight scenes! Why a fight is happening changes the fight because …

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Showing Fear and Anxiety

FightWrite — Fri, 17 May 2019 20:28:00 +0000

First things first, my book is out in just a few weeks! Pre Order!!! Ok, in our last round on FightWrite.net we looked at how the PTSD symptoms of intrusive thoughts and insomnia manifest in the behavior of our characters. In this round, we will look at fear and anxiety more closely. Fear and Anxiety Fear and anxiety are sometimes used synonymously and the two are quite different. Fear is an intense physical and emotional response to an impending or assumed impending threat. Anxiety is less intense but sustained feelings of worry, nervousness or unease that arise from impending …

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