Fight Scene

Hot dang! I just sat down and wrote 2,930 words. That brings the total so far to 18,570. Considering that today is the 13th of February and I started doing my at-least-a-thousand words per day on February 1st, I am obviously ahead of schedule. And that is great news.

I'm really happy with the writing I did today. It was full of action-type stuff, but I think I did it a lot better than last time. I think this roast was a little more tender and juicy. What I decided was that with writing, you can't really go into detail about fight scenes. You can a little, for like a paragraph or two. But after that, it just gets distracting and awkward. Instead, I'm trying to write about fight scenes in general terms. I wrote about what so-and-so's sword attacks were like, rather than making a play-by-play of the action. After setting up what each character generally did in battle, I wrote that the battle moved from here to there, rather than saying what exactly happened to get it from here to there. You'd think that more detail is always better, but the reader can actually imagine their own fight scenes in their head, and its distracting to tell them how to imagine it. It also has this nice effect of creating more time. It makes the scene and the fight seem longer, which is great. And it lets you move forward more quickly to the juicy parts, which would be the dialogue and emotion behind the fight. I think if I can remember what I did today and use it throughout my book, I'll have a much easier time writing it.