https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/ Writing Excuses Transcripts - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:25:00 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios wetranscripts community https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/15791.html Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:25:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/15791.html Posted by: <span lj:user='mbarker.livejournal.com' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?userid=92151&amp;t=I'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png' alt='[identity profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://mbarker.livejournal.com/' rel='nofollow'><b>mbarker.livejournal.com</b></a></span><br /><br />Writing Excuses Season Two Episode 21: Fight Scenes<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/03/01/writing-excuses-season-2-episode-21-fight-scenes/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/03/01/writing-excuses-season-2-episode-21-fight-scenes/</a><br /><br />Key Points: Fight scenes in novels aren't just bad knockoffs of movie fight scenes -- show the emotions, thoughts, and motivations. Focus on pinnacles and nadirs. Make sure the reader knows where things are and what is going on -- do your setup work. Goals can make the actions sing. Consider your character's expertise, your reader's expertise, and the moral ramifications, then decide whether to go for blow-by-blow, abstract, beautiful writing, showing the cost, and what else goes into your fight scene -- or gets left out.<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/15791.html#cutid1">blow-by-blow</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Brandon] All right. Writing Prompt? Write a fight between two people who have never been in a fight before.<br />[Dan] And have to use their environment cleverly.<br />[Brandon] This has been Writing Excuses. Thanks for listening.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=15791" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/15791.html lows motivations abstracted nadirs emotions pinnacles fight scenes highs blow-by-blow The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia, Reba McEntire punchy public ext_88293 0