not realistic - FightWrite A Writer's Resource for Fight Scenes, Action and Violence Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:47:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.fightwrite.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-fist-pen2-1-32x32.png not realistic - FightWrite 32 32 Don’t Write Authentic Fight Scenes https://www.fightwrite.net/dont-write-authentic-fight-scenes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-write-authentic-fight-scenes https://www.fightwrite.net/dont-write-authentic-fight-scenes/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:48:44 +0000 https://www.fightwrite.net/?p=9524 I am often asked for my best tip on writing authentic fight scenes and here it is: Don’t. As counterintuitive as it sounds, an authentic fight scene is not likely what your story needs or your readers want. Yes, as writers, it is our job to, as Hemingway said, “write the truth.” But I think he meant truth of the human condition not truth as in authentic to reality. If he did mean the latter, the “Old Man and the Sea” would be an altogether different tale. Santiago, the old man, wouldn’t wrangle in a massive marlin by hand with …

The post Don’t Write Authentic Fight Scenes first appeared on FightWrite.

]]> https://www.fightwrite.net/dont-write-authentic-fight-scenes/feed/ 78