Review: An Excellent Guide For Writers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2012
This is a very helpful book for writers that goes into details on many aspects of fighting that will enable your book to have a realistic as well as engaging quality. Rayne has a deep understanding of the relation of style to genre and I love the way that each section of the book also describes some of the blunders common to authors.As a therapist, I appreciate the in-depth psychological analysis that is given on the dimensions of fighting. There is nothing worse than reading or viewing a fighting scene that seems inauthentic or fake due to the use of inappropriate weapons, wrong amount of violence, poor use of pace or unrealistic dialogues.The fact that the author is an excellent writer, studied both classic and modern literature to analyze fighting scenes, personally trained in the martial arts and also choreographed stage performances shines through in this excellent book. I feel that any author can benefit by a close study in order to improve their writing skills for how to develop these type of scenes. I look forward to reading some of her other books.