Writing Fight Scenes Review

This is the bestselling original by Rayne Hall, published in 2011 and updated in 2015.

Learn step-by-step how to create fictional fights which leave the reader breathless with excitement.

The book gives you a six-part structure to use as blueprint for your scene. It reveals tricks how to combine fighting with dialogue, which senses to use when and how, how to create a sense of realism, and how to stir the reader's emotions.

You'll decide how much violence your scene needs, what's the best location, how your heroine can get out of trouble with self-defence and how to adapt your writing style to the fast pace of the action.

There are sections on female fighters, male fighters, animals and weres, psychological obstacles, battles, duels, brawls, riots and final showdowns.
For the requirements of your genre, there is even advice on how to build erotic tension in a fight scene, how magicians fight, how pirates capture ships and much more.

You will learn about different types of weapons, how to use them in fiction, and how to avoid embarrassing blunders.

Please note: This book assumes that you have some fiction writing experience. You'll benefit most if you've already mastered the basics of the craft and want to learn specialist techniques. It is not recommend for absolute beginners.

The book uses British English.

Review:

As many of you may know I have been having issues with my current work in progress (a modern fantasy novel) for a while, the ideas are there but getting them on to paper wasn't working for me because I was sticking in spots. Especially my combat scenes.

My main character (female) was in a situation that she needed to realistically get herself out of and no matter how well it happened in my head I just couldn't put it on paper.  Writing Fight Scenes helped me figure out where my problem was and how to work through it so the story was believable.

My favourite part of Rayne Hall's eBook though was the video links sprinkled through to illustrate the points that were made.  They really helped.

You can find Writing Fight Scenes by Rayne Hall on Amazon.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.