Need Tips on writing Fight Scenes For Stories.....

[SleepWriter]

Okay,I have this story I'm working on at the moment but I'm having some difficulty writing fight scenes. *sighs* I rewrite them over and over but even by reading my own writing I can barely tell what's going on during the fight. So here's my question : Could someone give me some advice/tips on writing fight scenes? I really need help.
Thanks to anyone who helps in advance :D

[Iain Sparrow]

Try this link, it's an interview with R.A. Salvatore about what makes a good fight scene...

http://blog.shelfari.com/my_weblog/2011/08/ra-salvatore-on-how-to-write-a-damn-good-fight-scene.html

Also, a writer writes best what he or she knows or has experienced... so you should probably get in a fight with someone.:)

[WolfLarsen]

I think the bananas should fight the table where, I mean not where the table is, but the table where itself. Damn, voice recognition software, no, the voice recognition software, there is hope, no! There you go! Now that's it estimation point, no! Good!

Now what were you talking about? No, what were we talking about? That's it!

Okay, sightseeing, not sightseeing! A fight scene! That's better!

Yes, a fight scene. But first I need better voice recognition software. I suppose I could go back and correct everything, which is what I'm always doing. So maybe the fight scene could become a fight between a man and his voice recognition software, a man who isn't able to write with a pen or even the type, but must use voice recognition software to write, and then give the voice recognition software feelings, and now you have a real problem. A real fight! Maybe throw in some sexual attraction between the man and the voice recognition software. I don't know.

Back before I broke with tradition I often had a problem with "writers block". But now that I have broken with tradition and have an endless supply of imagination I have much less "writers block". So why not have the fight occur between different things in your imagination? Maybe that way less writers block. Maybe that way more interesting to read. Or are you actually trying to make a living from this? In that case, your ****ed. Should I go back and correct your? Not bother. Post quick reply, oh it's not working.

[SleepWriter]

Thank you so much for that interview! It really helped. I shall now begin to write that fight scene! Wish me luck! :D

[Pumpkin337]

act it out yourself - make sure you aren't making your protagonists do something physically impossible and less is usually more.

Ignoring the plug to buy:

http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2011/09/07/write-fight-scenes-alan-baxter/

[Pope of Eruke]

What exactly do you have trouble writing about them?

[Riverbanks]

I hope you don't mind if I hijack this thread a little. I just started writing very recently (this week) and I'm having some trouble on deciding perspective, I kind of want a changing first person perspective but then fights become incredibly hard to do, I pretty much have to do the fights from another character and describe what he/she sees because if you've ever been in a fight you know there's no brain activity going on just reflexes and reactions it happens automatically so to speak. I will post something short here and I wonder if it makes any sense to you at all and or how well you can follow it. Also would it be better to take an omnipotent pov and just switch around between characters? Also, does this even count as first person pov?
The scene;

How can they approach each other so slowly yet with such determination? Finally, face to face. A swift punch. A lean and a thrusting right leg towards the attackers left knee. It slid back. The kick barely grazed. Now parallel. A step forward with a momentous left. Deflected. What is with this fast pace? And it's like a dance. An attack. Parried and followed by a kick. You lead one step and follow the next. The taller one's turn to lead. A straight towards the face. It's too late, he has already seen it. Deflecting from the left with his right hand. Straight down left. Something crunched. I joined the spectator's gasp subconsciously.
"Someone help him to the infirmary. His jaw is broken."

[108 fountains]

I think the bananas should fight the table where, I mean not where the table is, but the table where itself. Damn, voice recognition software, no, the voice recognition software, there is hope, no! There you go! Now that's it estimation point, no! Good!

Now what were you talking about? No, what were we talking about? That's it!

Okay, sightseeing, not sightseeing! A fight scene! That's better!

Yes, a fight scene. But first I need better voice recognition software. I suppose I could go back and correct everything, which is what I'm always doing. So maybe the fight scene could become a fight between a man and his voice recognition software, a man who isn't able to write with a pen or even the type, but must use voice recognition software to write, and then give the voice recognition software feelings, and now you have a real problem. A real fight! Maybe throw in some sexual attraction between the man and the voice recognition software. I don't know.

Back before I broke with tradition I often had a problem with "writers block". But now that I have broken with tradition and have an endless supply of imagination I have much less "writers block". So why not have the fight occur between different things in your imagination? Maybe that way less writers block. Maybe that way more interesting to read. Or are you actually trying to make a living from this? In that case, your ****ed. Should I go back and correct your? Not bother. Post quick reply, oh it's not working.

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