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jaceyYou could use this as a prescription for writing fight scenes, which would ba a mistake, but it also gives you the tools for working out the various stages a fight scene goes through. It gets specific about edged weapons and hand to hand fighting (not so much guns as that sets the protagonists apart from each other and is over very quickly). It outlines the psychological differences between female and male characters resulting in different energy arcs (men quick to anger and quick to cool down; women slower to build to a boiling fury but the anger dies away more slowly even after the fight is won). That leads to likely differences in dialogue before, during and after a fight.
It's very good for someone like me who has no martial arts experience, but needs to write fight scenes for historical and/or fantasy stories which include bladed weapons or hand-to-hand fights. Imagination can take you so far, but a little hard information provides good building blocks. Good for adding important little details and prompting the author to interrogate any fight scenes already written to see if anything can be added or needs to be subtracted.
It's very good for someone like me who has no martial arts experience, but needs to write fight scenes for historical and/or fantasy stories which include bladed weapons or hand-to-hand fights. Imagination can take you so far, but a little hard information provides good building blocks. Good for adding important little details and prompting the author to interrogate any fight scenes already written to see if anything can be added or needs to be subtracted.
