Someone online: “Wow i love your fic! Can’t wait for the next chapter!”

Me online: “Thanks!″

Me IRL:

people don’t understand. this is literally how I react when people comment on my stories. it may seem so insignificant and little to others, but a simple comment makes my entire day, sometimes, my entire week. especially if it’s a chapter I’ve worked really hard on or that I’m super excited about. I’m a pretty easy writer to please and all it takes is the littlest gesture

spnislyfe

^^^

therealcalicali

So true. After spending days, sometimes weeks writing and editing; all between your real life obligations; a comment is motivational.

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heywriters

Anonymous asked:

The book I'm writing has quite a lot a fight scenes in it, the only problem is I'm not good at writing them. I don't know how to describe it: when punches are supposed to be thrown, when they connect, when they miss, or really just anything in general. Could you give me a few tips on how to write a fight scene? Thanks.

heywriters answered:

First off, I reccommend thee to @howtofightwrite for all future fight questions.

Fight Scene Reference List Time!

How To Write Fight Scenes With Alan Baxter

Tea Party or Fist Fights?

Realistic Fighting Abilities in Fiction

3 Keys to Fight Scenes with Injured Characters

How to Write a Fight Scene Readers Will Love

Writing Techniques for Fight Scenes

How to Write Action That Won’t Show You’ve Never Thrown a Punch

My personal advice for inexperienced action writers, do your best to breeze over the conflict when you can (”Once I’d knocked out the guards…”) or make those fight scenes short. Doesn’t matter if it’s an hour-long boxing match (ouch) make it read like twenty seconds (unless the boxing match is the most important part of the story in which case ignore me).

Point is, most of your readers neither understand nor care how a fight scene works, but the ones that do will get annoyed quickly if you do it wrong. Watch your footwork and tread carefully.

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