: Re: Where to find some good examples of combat or action scenes? I always learn a lot about about writing by reading other works and following their examples. Right now I'm very bad at writing

@Mendez196

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For a completely different kind of action scene, I recommend any of the Black Company books by Glen Cook. The Mistborn books, recommended above, are outstanding for action by individual characters and small-group fights. In the Black Company, Cook mixes scenes of individual sword swingers with scenes of larger troop-level battles. You don't get either the blow-by-blow account or the individual emotional content that you find in Dune or Mistborn. You do get a sense of seeing the whole battle at once, though, which I find rewarding. It also gives Cook at different way to delivery payoff on preparations his characters have made.

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