Theme song for the battle scene I wrote yesterday

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Theme song for the battle scene I wrote yesterday

I really do not like writing climactic battle scenes. (If you have never guessed that, good.) They’re hard. I have to get everyone in a plausible place for the things to happen that I want to happen, and it’s hard for me. Also, I just don’t much like writing those scenes.

Yesterday’s battle went badly wrong for the good guys at least twice and had three significant surprising moments; at least, I hope readers will find them surprising. Oddly enough, the twists all came out of plot elements laid down long, long before, even though I did not have any idea I would use those elements in those ways until about two or three days ago, when I finally worked out this final battle scene in my head. Remarkably, this tends to happen to me. I expect my subconscious mind does that, but I can’t tell it’s happening until I realize, Oh, right, that would actually work perfectly.

I probably don’t have to specifically add that in the end, the battle went seriously wrong for the bad guy, in a way he probably (definitely) did not see coming.

I am now writing the denouement. I can’t even express how much better I like writing the denouement than the battle. Every book is like that for me. I love denouements.

But for now, the battle: Snowy landscape; boreal forest; long stretch of open ground; bad guys in a pretty decent position, good guys in a fairly bad position; various important complications that have never complicated any battle scene in the real world.

This is the song I played on repeat for a lot of the time while I was writing this scene:

The Crüxshadows: “Winterborn”

Dry your eyes
And quietly bear this pain with pride
For heaven shall remember the silent and the brave
And promise me they will never see
The fear within our eyes
[My eyes are closed]
We will give strength to those who still remain

So bury fear, for fate draws near
And hide the signs of pain
With noble acts
The bravest souls endure the heart’s remains
Discard regret, that in this debt
A better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember and avoid our fate

And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be your light
You’ve asked me for my sacrifice
And I am winterborn
Without denying, a faith is come
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am winterborn

Hold your head up high
For there is no greater love
Think of the faces of the people you defend
And promise me they will never see
The tears within our eyes
[My eyes are closed]
Although we are men with mortal sins
Angels never cry

And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be your light
You’ve asked me for my sacrifice
And I am winterborn
Without denying, a faith in God
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am winterborn

And in the fury of this darkest hour
I will be your light
A lifetime for this destiny
For I am winterborn

And in this moment
I will not run
It is my place to stand
We too shall carry hope
Within our bloodied hands

And in our dying
We’re more alive
Than we have ever been
I live for these few seconds
For I am winterborn

And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be the light
You’ve asked me for my sacrifice
And I am winterborn
Without denying, a faith in man
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am winterborn

Within this moment I am for you
Though better men have failed
I will give my life for love
For I am winterborn
And in my dying, I’m more alive
Than I have ever been
I will make this sacrifice
For I am winterborn