Lights, camera…Part II

So how do you build an action scene? There are a lot of things to consider. Some of them will be dictated by decisions the writer has made earlier in the story, and the first and most important of these is viewpoint, which frequently implies level.

Action can be "seen" by the reader from lots of different levels. A bird's eye view is a Big Picture description that is most often employed when describing a full-scale battle (but it can work quite well for smaller fights); a general's view is...