Writing Fighting Multiple Opponents

FightWrite — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:50:51 +0000

I have been asked many times if one character can beat multiple opponents. My answer is always, “tell me more,” because it’s not really a question that has a single, cut and dried answer. There are a lot of variables. It’s far more plausible that one character can best multiple opponents rather than beat them. But I will leave that tidbit up to your brain and keyboard. For this post, we will look at basic plans that any character, or writer, can follow when in the awful situation of fighting multiple opponents. The strategies are different depending upon how many …

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Writing Female Fighters

FightWrite — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:17:03 +0000

One of the questions I am asked most often is, from a technical perspective, how do women fight differently than men? In other words, if your female character carries a sword, how will her sword work differ from that of male characters? How will her hand-to-hand combat differ? Her wrestling? Her (insert fighting style here)? In my book, Fight Write: How to Write Believable Fight Scenes, I have a whole chapter on female aggression. On the second page I address the fighting style of women. However, the number of questions I receive tells me that I should have given …

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Writing Fighting Multiple Opponents

Writing Female Fighters