Jack Campbell, Elizabeth Bear,&Sebastien de Castell discussed how to Write Fight Scenes That Work at #worldcon75.
Here are my notes.
Tag: panels
I attend cons — sf and fantasy conventions — a couple times a year. Of late, I’ve been attending more than a few panels on writing, editing, and publishing. With professional writers, editors, Editors, and agents as the panelists. Here is where you can find my notes!
Writing Fight Scenes That Work
Writing Fight Scenes That Work
“Point of View solves everything.” – Elizabeth Bear
- How To Start A Fight
- Rules of Fighting
- How to Make The Fight Realisting
- Do the Characters Need to Know Why?
- How Long Should A Fight Be?
Vlog: 3 Things That Make a Great 1st Line
Tips on how to start your novel. Plus! Famous examples and discussion about how they work.
Vlog: Writing Secondary and Minor Characters
Vlog: Writing Secondary and Minor Characters
You might know all about your main character, but a world isn’t a world without other people!
Who Else: Writing Secondary and Minor Characters
Writers know all about our main character–they’re the focus of our story. Often, the story is told in their voice.
But what about everyone else? Unless you’re writing a person-versus-nature like Hatchet, you’re probably going to have other characters.
Video Blogpost: What Lies Beneath: Adding Subtext to Your Novel
What Lies Beneath:
Adding Subtext To Your Novel
In real life, people are not necessarily open and honest about their feelings, their intentions, or their actions. Sometimes they try to hide them, and sometimes, they honestly don’t know themselves.
In my 2nd video blog, I discuss:
- what subtext is
- where to find subtext in media AND real life
- PLUS! 7 tips to add subtext to your own writing.
What Lies Beneath: Adding Subtext To Your Story
What Lies Beneath: Adding Subtext To Your Story
In real life, people are not necessarily open and honest about their feelings, their intentions, or their actions. Sometimes they try to hide them, and sometimes, they honestly don’t know themselves.
In writing, it adds to a character, helping round them out from 2-dimensions into 3 if you can figure out how to add the sub-text.
Sub-text is how you manage a big reveal or plot twist at the end of your book and have readers go “Oh! Of course!” rather than feeling cheated or misled.
But how do you add subtext to your novel?
3 Things That Make a Great 1st Line
3 Things The 1st Line Of A Novel Must Do
(Or at least the 1st page)
- It Must Make You Want To Read The 2nd Line
- It Must Establish The Tone of The Novel
- It Must (at least) Hint At A Problem
Let’s take a look at famous 1st lines and see how many of these things they manage. And how they do it…
How To Write Better Villains – a #Balticon panel
Writing Better Villains
- Not all antagonists are villains.
- The Biggest challenge to writing “good villains”
- Which came first? The Hero or the Villain?
WRITING TIPS & WRITERLY MUSINGS 