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Fight Write, Round Two
From the author of the Writer's Digest book Fight How to Write Believable Fight Scenes comes Fight Write, Round Crafting Chaos, Combat and Crime.
From a medieval siege to a modern murder scene, Fight Write, Round Two has got you covered. Divided into three sections, trained fighter and writer Carla Hoch guides you through the many factors you will need to consider when writing your scenes of chaos, combat or crime.
Section one, Crafting Chaos, coaches you through various stages of writing a fight scene including what to consider before you start, which fight moves to block, how to pace the scene, if dialogue is a realistic component and how to kick your reader right in the neurons. Throughout the chapters you'll watch a fight scene take shape. Beware the Muchahuahua!
Section two, Combat, hits hard from the medieval battle field to the MMA cage. Learn how to storm a castle, the basics of swordplay, how to best a magical foe and fight alongside an animal companion. Is your character jumping into combat sports? Find out how to write a scene with sparring, how flowing blood impacts combat and how any character might fight if they don't know the first thing about fighting.
Section three, Crime, considers what your criminal and crime fighting characters might encounter from the scene of the crime to the crime scene clean-up. You'll learn to write deception, compelling evidence, problematic personalities and get the inside scoop on autopsy. You'll also learn what Bigfoot has in common with psychopaths and sociopaths and how CSI shows have changed juries and readers.
Get ready, writer! With Fight Write, Round Two in hand the pages of your manuscript are sure to get feisty.
From a medieval siege to a modern murder scene, Fight Write, Round Two has got you covered. Divided into three sections, trained fighter and writer Carla Hoch guides you through the many factors you will need to consider when writing your scenes of chaos, combat or crime.
Section one, Crafting Chaos, coaches you through various stages of writing a fight scene including what to consider before you start, which fight moves to block, how to pace the scene, if dialogue is a realistic component and how to kick your reader right in the neurons. Throughout the chapters you'll watch a fight scene take shape. Beware the Muchahuahua!
Section two, Combat, hits hard from the medieval battle field to the MMA cage. Learn how to storm a castle, the basics of swordplay, how to best a magical foe and fight alongside an animal companion. Is your character jumping into combat sports? Find out how to write a scene with sparring, how flowing blood impacts combat and how any character might fight if they don't know the first thing about fighting.
Section three, Crime, considers what your criminal and crime fighting characters might encounter from the scene of the crime to the crime scene clean-up. You'll learn to write deception, compelling evidence, problematic personalities and get the inside scoop on autopsy. You'll also learn what Bigfoot has in common with psychopaths and sociopaths and how CSI shows have changed juries and readers.
Get ready, writer! With Fight Write, Round Two in hand the pages of your manuscript are sure to get feisty.
430 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 24, 2024
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About the author
Carla Hoch
10 books24 followersCarla Hoch is the author of the Writer’s Digest book Fight Write: How to Write Believable Fight Scenes. She is the blogger of FightWrite.net and podcaster of the eponymous FightWrite podcast. Carla has training in nearly a dozen martial arts and fighting styles and regularly teaches workshops on the mechanics of fighting for writers as well as the craft of writing fight scenes. She trains outside of Houston, in the People's Holy Republic of Texas where she lives with her family, paranoid guinea pigs and judgmental cat.
Carla Factoids:
- When Carla was in 5th grade she wrote to People Magazine and told them how much she loved their article on the E.T. movie star Henry Thomas. People Magazine wrote her back, she still has the letter, and helped Carla become an official member of the E.T. fan club.
- She was the Sam's Club Employee of the Month once. She was also surveilled by Sam's Club to see if she was stealing money but it turned out she was just super bad at counting down her cash register. They kept her and raised her as their own.
- She was almost suspended in high school for shooting spit balls. It wasn't so much the spit balls. It was that when she was told to write an essay on why she shouldn't shoot spit balls, Carla argued that her spit balls were a cry for peace and if everyone would put down their guns and pick up straws the world would be a better place to live!
- She is a descendent of William Shakespeare's mother's sister.
- She is really good at making popcorn on the stove.
- Carla has training in hapkido, MMA, Muay Thai, street defense, iaido and Filipino martial arts and is belted in judo, aikido, TKD and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
- Both her late father and late aunt were professional writers
Carla Factoids:
- When Carla was in 5th grade she wrote to People Magazine and told them how much she loved their article on the E.T. movie star Henry Thomas. People Magazine wrote her back, she still has the letter, and helped Carla become an official member of the E.T. fan club.
- She was the Sam's Club Employee of the Month once. She was also surveilled by Sam's Club to see if she was stealing money but it turned out she was just super bad at counting down her cash register. They kept her and raised her as their own.
- She was almost suspended in high school for shooting spit balls. It wasn't so much the spit balls. It was that when she was told to write an essay on why she shouldn't shoot spit balls, Carla argued that her spit balls were a cry for peace and if everyone would put down their guns and pick up straws the world would be a better place to live!
- She is a descendent of William Shakespeare's mother's sister.
- She is really good at making popcorn on the stove.
- Carla has training in hapkido, MMA, Muay Thai, street defense, iaido and Filipino martial arts and is belted in judo, aikido, TKD and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
- Both her late father and late aunt were professional writers
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February 17, 2025
I was SO EXCITED when I saw Carla was coming out with a sequel to Fight Write–my favorite non-fiction read of last year and a total game changer for me as a writer. Fight Write: Round 2 did not disappoint! I was so, so thrilled to see that an entire section of this book is devoted to medieval and fantasy fight scenes, armor, war tactics, etc. I, of course, bookmarked and underlined/highlighted so many pages and will be referring back to this book often, especially this section that directly pertains to the type of stories I write.
I’ve recommended Fight Write so many times already, and I’ll recommend it and this sequel many, many more times in the future! These books are incredible resources for writers, and if you are a writer that has any type of fight scene in your books at all, or want to try your hand at writing a story with fighting in it, READ THESE BOOKS!
I’ve recommended Fight Write so many times already, and I’ll recommend it and this sequel many, many more times in the future! These books are incredible resources for writers, and if you are a writer that has any type of fight scene in your books at all, or want to try your hand at writing a story with fighting in it, READ THESE BOOKS!
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