How To Write A Fight Scene - Grace Knight

I know I said I wouldn't be posting on here, but I decided I would put my craft blog series on here. In about a week, I'll be adding what you should do. You can find the actual post here: graceknightbooks.blog.com



What Not To Do



1. The Blow-by-Blow: Please, do not do the blow-by-blow. There are many reasons for this, the first and foremost being that it's boring. There's no emotion, no description, nothing for the reader to chew on.



2. The Conversation: I was reading a published author's blog not too long ago. Whose blog it was escapes me, but she was one of the first things up on a Google search. She had a post about fight scenes and something else. She seemed to have a very high estimation of her skills, and she was talking about how she showed her main character's ability to handle conflict. She committed the cardinal sin of fight scenes: the main character held a conversation in the middle of an exhibition of sorts, and his opponent was trying to kill him. Neve...