4 Tips on Writing Action Scenes

Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

This week's Refresher Friday takes an updated look at another favorite from the archives--exploring ways to write great action scenes. Enjoy!

I like action in my entertainment. Books, movies, TV shows, even games. I also enjoy a great story to go with it, but I like the external forces that cause the true nature of a person to bubble to the surface. I want to see what people do and discover why they did it. 

At this point in my career, writing action comes pretty easily to me, but that wasn't always the case. My early work was way too descriptive in how my fight scenes played out--I explained every detail, I created special names for fighting styles and whatnot. It took longer to read the action that it did to actually perform the action.
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