Very interesting and helpful. Just one thing: you mention about purple prose in chapter five. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I have to disagree that purple prose helps during an action scene, although imagery and necessary description does.

Thanks for the tips! :D

helpful! I always have trouble writing battle scenes, everything happens too fast...this'll help though!

Thanks for this! It really helped!

Wow! I just finished reading all ten chapters if this! These are very helpful, I'm very horrible at fight scenes and this has helped me out a lot. But I would also like to make ask for some advice.

You see I'm working on something and towards the end of the final fight one of the character dies, but that person is killed because she got in the way of two attacks, which would have result in both the good and bad guy being killed. I was wondering if you have any advice for that sort of thing. If you do, that would be very helpful to make an dramatic ending.

~Hitomi

thanks a lot...I've never done fight scenes before and your tips really helped.

essays a fight

I have not read this completely yet, but I have scanned it and copy/pasted it to Word for a thorough read-through later. What I saw looks promising...

I was intrigued by this because I have written a fanfic up to a point where I have to have a fight - it is a crucial plot point. I have put off updating this story for months now because I haven't had the slightest idea of how to continue.

However, thanks to you, I now think I can begin the creative process anew.

Thank you,
Inscribson

Thanks for the tips!
It was really useful. :)

Love, Hime.

Simply wonderful, this will really help me, thank you for writing this andposting it.

On chapter one, be careful as to what you describe as 'synonyms'- A different type of weapon isn't a synonym for another. For example, on 'Sword' the first three examples are fine, but then you say 'Katana' and 'Dagger'; Katana is, while still the Japanese word for sword, not the same as the other word. Typically, katanas have curved blades and are thin, but they are also not a synonym for sword because they're a different language. Dagger is also not a synonym for the obvious reason that swords and daggers are not the same.

The same goes for the firearm part; You list different types of guns, not synonyms for guns.

-Brackets

Wow, I laugh really hard with the egg scence >_> I'm such a dork.

I'm begining to like the Essay part of Fiction..

Wow. That was a really cool tutorial (for lack of a better word.) Incredibly helpful and you covered just about everything. My fight scenes are generally horrible, so this is fantastic. Thanks.

Well I could agree with that, but it kinda gets cliched whe nthe big bad guy starts winning too much. Actually that is the best way to finish things. I wish there was anoither way. I can't argue. Good work

I NEEDED THIS! Ty.