Lights, camera…what?

Action scenes are the bread-and-butter of whole genres of fiction. As such, they're pretty important, and I was rather stunned to realize that I've said very little about writing them. I was even more stunned when I went to the bookcase that's full of how-to-write books - five shelves of them - and couldn't find even one that really talked about writing action scenes. (A couple of them pretended to, but what they were actually talking about usually turned out to be plot, or else conflict or s...