Can you believe it? Is it Real Enough?

IWSG Day Question: If you could use a wish to help you write just one scene/chapter of your book, which one would it be?
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I’m doubling up today. I’m using the “Can you believe it?” for the Alphabet of April day 3 “C” and the IWSG Day question on writing. My blog/my rules?

Fight Scenes – I mean I’m not a fighter or a wielder of swords, so am I really portraying a realistic scene or am I just getting carried away with it? I think what I visualize is realistic, but I have no experience to draw on except imagination and I don’t like shows where they portray something that when you think about it, isn’t realistic. I am specifically thinking about scenes where someone (Spiderman maybe) is on the ceiling and a person walks down the hall and doesn’t see them. Come on, our peripheral vision is better than that. It’s how we have stayed alive all these years as a species!

So sword fighting scenes. I love watching them, (Three Musketeers anyone) as it is balletic, but I don’t know if what I write translates correctly and maybe it doesn’t matter if it gives the ‘right feel’ on paper.

I also wonder if I go on too long with such scenes. I have characters who are more than proficient with bladed weapons, but perhaps the reader doesn’t care. I know I’ve skip-read over ‘love/seduction’ scenes in some books because after a while it was TOO much and I wanted to get on with the story. Yeah, I get it they are ‘hot and heavy’ for each other, but move along now.

So that’s my answer and I’m sticking to it.

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