Writing a fight scene can be quite difficult. Here some tips on how to get started.
1. Have a real opponent: It won’t be a very enjoyable read if your hero is a far better fighter than his opponents, if your hero has to fight somebody who is weak the fights get boring. A respected opponent makes for a good fight. It’s okay if your hero get punched around by the enemy. Perhaps the constant fighting in wearing them down, or they realize they’re low on ammo.
2. Real fight: Real fighters don’t stop to have a little chat with each other. In real life, while the adrenaline is pumping, people won’t have the energy to talk, you need to defeat the other one. Swearing is common, instinctive and often violent. When someone gets kicked in the jaw, or hit with a headbutt, they rarely just shrug it off as though nothing has happened. When your hero gets hit, make sure your readers can “feel” the hit. Ask yourself how would it feel to get a headbutt. In some situation the fighters do talk but this is comedy for example.
3. Perceptions: Short sentences with little extraneous detail create a faster, more frantic tempo. Longer sentences with more detail are good but they slow down the tempo and make everything happen slower. Use both types of sentences to help control the tempo of the fight scene exactly how you want it to go. The more detail you give the less the reader will use their imagination, the less you give the more they will use it.
4. Style: There are dozens of different ways that you could write a good fight scene and each author needs to come up with one that works for their writing. For example you have realistic. one on one, epic battle, fantasy you name it.
5. Show the effects: Once the fight is over, what are the results? is your hero injured? Is he bleeding? Did he break an arm and what about the other combatants? If your fighter walks away afterwards as though nothing has happened, then he is either a robot, or you are missing some detail.
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