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Month: July 2018

Fight scenes

Fight scenes

I’m just going to say it. Most fight scenes in books are boring. Large scale battles or one-to-one combat, they’re boring. At least in movie fight scenes, the audience gets spectacle. In books, you don’t even have that. Instead, in a book, story is happening. Then the story stops for three pages while people hit one another. Then the story starts again. Boring. Battle scenes as process scenes The tedium of most written fight scenes is a subdivision of the…

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Invoking fantasy gods

Invoking fantasy gods

When you set a story in a made-up or secondary world, one of the small but significant problems you run into is giving characters a good way to call on their god(s). They could be cursing, invoking a deity as witness, or maybe asking for a god’s help. This is challenging because in a secondary-world story, the author makes up things like the god(s), the cultural notions of the afterlife, and what kind of supernatural creatures might be around to…

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