I have two main characters, one is quick on her feet and uses a sword

the second is more agile(i can't spell.. lol) and stronger, uses kicking and punching.

They'll find all sorts of things from humans to demons to angels (or similar)

Any tips?

thanks

Personally I use all sorts of tools to plot out stories. When people say that they are not great at

wrtting something sometimes it is because they cannot plot it out properly. Visualizing the events is

not something everyone is good at doing.

So here are a couple of ideas.

1) Ever play a Role Playing Game? Not on the computer, but a live one with real people? The reason I ask

is because those games breakdown things like combat into understandable chunks. The very rules they use

define the possibilities. Try picking up a D&D rule book or something similar.

As long as you do not tell people 'Hey the battles are actually run via D&D rules and I just write

out the results' everyone will just think you are great at doing battle scenes.

2) Get yourself a big stack of blank paper. Take the first page and just do a simple sketch of the layout

of where you wish the fight to occur. This is the first moment of the Battle. Mark the Page with a 1.

Mark the positions of the participants, and any other notes (like can they see over to point A or not?).

You can also mark important locations with a letter, as in A.

Get a new piece of paper, mark it 2.

Now you start to move people around. Each page basicially represents a few seconds of action. You look

at the last page, quickly mark everybody's location on the new one, and then draw arrows or other indicators

to show where they move, or what they do.

What I suggest is that start with each character, decide what they are going to do first, and then

things play out from there. Some people will ask 'why not just do it all on one page' and my response

is 'You can, but it can get unreadable fast.". This is an odd kind of storyboard, but still useful. If you

had the space to actually lay out all the pages you could see your whole fight in one big picture.

Darque

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Ah, yes, I guess you like D&D, so do I. I understand all that stuff. Visualising is something you may be, or not be, good at. Some people don't ned to visualise though, I do. And I see the image perfect in my head. When I read s tory, I see a movie in my head.

What I do is invision something in my head, then describe what I see, adding other things that may be neccisary, thoughts, those little description things that may be added. Other crap.

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