Review: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED / COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 9, 2012
As a writer of short stories, I have often failed miserably when I've attempted to craft a fight scene that, well, feels like a real fight scene. "Show, don't tell" is what we all know as a universal truth among us authors--but fight scenes are so easy to "tell" rather than "show." This book takes you through several scenarios and there is a variety of information about different genres and set-ups. I especially liked reading about "blunders to avoid" because no doubt you will have read these blunders in your friends' writing samples (not your writing of course!). There are examples and internet resources intertwined throughout the book. Thanks to this, you can read or see a fight scene illustrated immediately. It's helpful that the author is a writing teacher as well as a published author of many well-constructed fight scenes. The book is written in an easy style. The author is not afraid to have a laugh about her own misadventures in the writing world. What I love about this book is that it not only gave me fantastic guidance for writing fight scenes but it provided me with inspiration to pick up the pen (errr, open the laptop) and get moving on my latest chapter. Not much more a writer wants.