Review: Writing Fight Scenes - A Valuable Reference Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2013
Even though I have been in the Army and trained in martial arts, translating that training to writing a good fight scene is not straight forward. Rayne Hall's "Writing Fight Scenes" was helpful to me in the breakdown of different bladed weapons, the difference between an entertaining and gritty fight scene, how the gender difference affects a fight and the use of or lack of dialogue in the fight scenes. I appreciated the use of numerous YouTube videos to illustrate the points discussed.While this is a valuable reference for writing fight scenes with bladed weapons and some hand to hand combat scenes, it could be improved by inclusion of more firearms information and how to write believable firefight scenes. The author could also have included information on the use of poisons for assassination scenes.However, there are links to some good weapons research groups for writers and Hall's writers group which is useful information to help the budding author. I would recommend this book as a good reference work for the author starting to learn how to write fight scenes.