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my baba sent me this on whatsapp

I absolutely love your prompts! And I was wondering if you could give me some advice about writing a battle scene? *if that's not 2 difficult* thanks so Much of you can. I want to be an author and your prompts are such fun exercise for me

I sound like a broken record but thank you so much! It really does make me smile to get good comments :)

Anyway, I have a few tips based on my own experience and a few things I’ve learned online.

If you don’t know much about the technique, do research and try not to talk too much about the technique. I doubt many of us have actually fired an arrow/gun at someone or used a sword in battle. But there are people out there that have some experience (probably more so with the gun and maybe archery) and they’ll be able to pick up on flaws in the technique easily. Do your research but that can’t really replace actual practice so try not to go too in depth if you don’t know something for sure.

Keep the pace moving! A battle scene should be full of action and be fast paced so that the reader feels like they are witnessing the speed of the fight themselves. Try not to stop for long dialogues or internal monologues and DON’T have the characters involved stop to have a chat about something. This is a fight. Let the fists do the talking. If you need to pause to say something make it something important and something that couldn’t wait until after the fight, like a realization that changes the way the fight goes.

One-on-one fights don’t usually last very long in the real world. This was a cliche that I read about a little while ago that something like a sword fight would typically only last under a minute. As for hand-to-hand, have you ever seen an Olympic martial arts event? The rounds last seconds. It’s hard to keep fighting, giving your all, for a long time and one of the participants is bound to make a mistake pretty quickly. This is another reason to keep the pace moving.

Try not to let emotions get too involved in the writing, unless the emotion is critical to the cause or outcome of the fight. People Anger and/or fear are to be expected but don’t tell us that by saying “Jimmy was so angry at Harry” show us that by the way that Jimmy keeps punching at Harry without worrying much about protecting himself. Talking too much about emotion can kind of soften the tension in some cases. The reflecting comes after the fight and that should be where things get interesting. Speaking of which…

Fighting shouldn’t be senseless. If your reader just wanted to see some blood they’d watch a boxing match or something. The battle, like everything in the story, should serve to advance the plot, the character development or preferably both. Your story isn’t about a bunch of people hitting each other with swords, it’s about the guy who was dragged into this war by accident or force and is trying to stay alive by any means necessary so he can at least protect his village. Readers have to care about the consequences. Will this fight finally liberate the protagonist or will it just plunge into deeper trouble?

That’s all I’ve got for now. Good luck with your writing. I’m rooting for you to reach your goal :)

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All the time. I look back and am just overcome with embarrassment.

Do you guys ever say the wrong thing in a conversation and then have it haunt you for months or years afterwards like a social anxiety poltergeist?