Them's Fightin' Words!: A Writer's Guide To Writing Fight Scenes

Join professional fight choreographer and author Teel James Glenn as he takes you on a literary journey through the process of creating believable and dramatically valid action scenes in every kind of fiction. Using wit and personal experience, he dissects action scenes for the keys to what makes them work. From Fantasy swordfights, barroom brawls, comic combat to martial arts knockabouts, he not only outlines and explains the whys and wherefores of literary violence, he also explores techniques that allow you to create them yourself with a series of fun and easy-to-do exercises. In step-by-step examinations, he shows how great writers like Alexander Dumas, Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider haggard did it. He takes the mystery out of writing action, but not the excitement!