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…
