Book reviews are precious to us authors. For one, nothing sells a reader a book as much as another reader saying why …
Writing Scenes With Sparring
Sparring scenes matter. To write great scenes with sparring, we first need to understand what sparring is, isn't, and …
Where Your Fight Scene Takes Place
When writing a fight scene, where it takes place is of the utmost importance. In fact, where a fight takes place is more …
What Fight Scenes Can Do For Your Story
What fight scenes can do a lot for your story is a lot! Like, a lot, a lot. Stuff that goes far beyond the fray. Don’t …
Types of Punches
Here's a little compendium of the types punches as well as a proper fight stance which directly affects them. I'm not …
NaNoWriMo Fight Scene Guide
November is National Novel Write Month a.k.a. NaNoWriMo. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to get that manuscript out of your …
Fight Scenes with Injured Characters
Where there is a fight, there's generally an injury. And, if you are writing fight scenes, chances are you will have to …
How to Write a Fight Scene That Flows and Is Easy to Follow
I put a call out on Instagram for fight scene questions. @head_over_heels_for_books asked, "How can I write a fight …
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What Fighters Think About While Fighting
I got a question on "the Tweeter," recently that, I have to say, I've received more than a dozen times. What do fighters …
Crime Scene Cleaning Pt 2 – Writer Questions
Recently on the FightWrite podcast, I interviewed David Morales of BioTechs Crime and Trauma Cleaning Services. He was …
Redirecting Momentum
Does your character needs to redirect momentum to save their life? Not even sure what that is? Well, this post is for …
Hitting a Pro
Disparity between combatants is the most common issue that authors present to me. Either one combatant is larger than …