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When writing a fighting scene, what do you focus on more? the movement and describing the fight or what the character will do and think during the fight?
I think the more fluid way is the actions.When writing a fighting scene, what do you focus on more? the movement and describing the fight or what the character will do and think during the fight?
Thank you, I was wondering how to describe a fight scene that was coming up in my novel. Your advice helps me a lot.I don’t try and write what a characters is thinking unless I can do it in one sentence or less. Unless a character has bullet time, a fight (assuming hand to hand/ melee not some wizard battle) isn’t a place to be thinking, it’s much more about instinct. I try to use good descriptive words, and keep flowery language to a minimum to make the sentences as short as possible so it reads fast, much like how many fights are.
Now if you’re doing something like a dog fight between planes, or a fight between two spaceships or something you can disregard all of that.
I usually write them in a blaze as fast as I can. It gives the scene urgency. I have a lot of single word paragraphs and quick thoughts interjected within. Although some books do really well by pausing the action entirely and getting into the headspace of the characters through the narrator. Another cool truck is to make the fighting more abstract to maintain that character headspace. The Wheel of Time does this beautifully.When writing a fighting scene, what do you focus on more? the movement and describing the fight or what the character will do and think during the fight?
Just kinda balance it but generally the movement and the fight itself.When writing a fighting scene, what do you focus on more? the movement and describing the fight or what the character will do and think during the fight?
Also, great adviceSorry but at the end of the day, for any question of this type I think it's best if you just go read & analyze a good scene from a novel you really like. At least this way you'll develop your own understand and generate your Way of novelists. Such Dao might bring good karma. Good luck.