: 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

I thought the battle/fight scenes in Stan Nicholls' The Orcs were pretty good. Detailed, graphic and fast-paced at the same time.

However, I found that you can only read so much about people/creatures grappling, hacking, slashing and hitting each other and the book quickly turned out to be just an endless string of these fight sequences, only held together by a rather ridiculous plot, which unfortunately rendered the end result quite boring despite all the superbly written action sequences.

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: Simply for me, I write my most emotionally charged pieces when I'm emotional. If I'm writing something romantic or erotic, i need to be in a sensual mood. If I'm writing something sci-fi,

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: 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

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: I think another aspect here is what you're writing, especially if it's non-fiction. Sometimes the subject matter itself has a "native language". For example I would never even start writing

: What disciplines/habits are used to stay focussed on one novel over a long period of time? One of my biggest issues is staying focused on a single novel. My imagination is always creating new

: Simply for me, I write my most emotionally charged pieces when I'm emotional. If I'm writing something romantic or erotic, i need to be in a sensual mood. If I'm writing something sci-fi,

: What are the structural differences between scripts for comics and scripts for films? Has anyone experienced the transition from writing plots/stories for comics to writing a script viable for

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