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Hand-to-Hand Writing: 7 Tips to Grappling

Welcome to Day 2 of martial arts writing aspects.  Again, this is a personal categorization that I came up with to cover as much ground as I could.  On Monday, we went over strikes and now we’re going over grappling.  … Continue reading

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Hand-to-Hand Writing: 7 Tips to Strikes

It’s been a while since I started getting into the meat of action scenes.  This week, I plan on doing a bunch of ‘7 Tips’ lists with each one focusing on a different aspect of hand-to-hand combat.  This isn’t any … Continue reading

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Designing a Fighting Style for Your Character

Last year, I wrote a trio of posts that gave tips on three categories of fighting styles.  This was just a general overview of Strength, Agility/Speed, and Counters/Thinkers, which most styles can be fit into.  Of course, this is boiling … Continue reading

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7 Tips to Writing Battles: Let The Owies Begin!

One thing that Quest of the Brokenhearted did is push my limits on writing fight scenes.  Many people thinking writing an action scene is easy because you just have to put in ‘fighting stuff’.  This includes punches, kicks, soliloquies, gloating, guns, … Continue reading

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Thoughts on John Wick Chapter 2: A Kind of Review

Now, I thought about doing a review of John Wick Chapter 2 since I saw it last weekend for Valentine’s Day.  Before anybody says anything, the wife tends to choose action movies for this holiday.  We both loved the first one … Continue reading

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Leaping and Swinging on the Page

One of my favorite types of games is the platforming, puzzle types like ‘Prince of Persia: Sands of Time’ and ‘God of War’.  Though this post will focus more on the former because that put the traveling over the combat.  … Continue reading

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