Martial Arts knowledge in my writing

[Martin Gill]

"She blocked his wild swing and punched him in the face with the hilt of her sword."

This. If it helps, write the fight long form and detail the moves then strip out all the "left" and "right" references. I sometimes do this to make sure the pogic of the fight works before then going back and adding the emotional aspects (pain, fear etc) and the confusion of being in a real fight.

 

[Nick B]

For a while I've felt that it would be very hard to depict an exciting car chase in a novel: by the time that you'd explained what was going on and where everyone was, you'd have lost all the momentum of the writing. The thing you can do in a novel that you can't do so well in a film is really get into the character's head and feel what they're feeling.

Funnily enough, I have been toying with a similar idea: a mad chase, part in vehicles, part on foot.
A great piece of inspiration came from an old Ice-T track called Midnight. Most of it is car chase and done entirely from one perspective, it works well, and though it is music, it creates a great visual scene that I think would work well as prose, with a little extra work. Ice-T has always been a good story teller.

 

[Darkranger85]

JC and Toby: That's a very interesting insight. And I guess I would have to agree after giving it some thought. (And you can feel free to post fight scenes if you wish )

I guess I'm going to have to accept the limits of the format and work to its strengths. Which is OK, cause my story does strongly revolve around the emotional side of things.

The emotional aspect of my story actually has me in a bit of a corner aswell, but that's for a separate post me thinks.