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meg_evonne:
Cool book, Quantus! Thank you!

Quantus:

--- Quote from: meg_evonne on August 24, 2012, 05:57:02 PM ---Cool book, Quantus! Thank you!

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Any time :) The author is someone one Ive known him my whole life, and probably one of the stranger individuals Ive ever seen or heard of.  7th dan Hapkido master, Electrical engineer working as a senior scientist for a space/defense contractor (playing with the kind of high power toys I dream about, terawatt stuff), massive trecky, and every year his family christmas picture includes some new dinosaur bone for his collection.  And his tiny asian wife (5th dan) is probably one of the scariest people Ive ever met... Tiny but Fierce indeed! 

gatordave96:
Ordered the book over Amazon.  Many thanks, Quantus.

Glad to know that unlike Fight Club, the folks here will talk about fighting. 

MClark:

--- Quote from: Aminar on August 24, 2012, 05:19:20 PM ---Walky talkies changed warfare forever.  Don't forget it.(Seriously think about it...  The changes are nuts.)

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I was thinking of folks writing various sword and horses type stories - or any story where the armies don't have wireless or similar tech/magic.

Sort of related to this: I was watching the old show Tour of Duty and on the first episode the sergeant wants to call in an artillery strike. He begins to scramble over obstacles and through trenches and such.  I was thinking why doesn't he just use his walkie? He eventually reaches the corpse of a radioman and the radio and it hits me that he doesn't have a walkie. I was so used to watching SG:1 and 24, where every one  has some sort of wireless, that I didn't realize they weren't in common use in Vietnam. (Or at least that's what that episode of Tour of Duty showed.)

Wordmaker:
One of the first things to decide before you go looking for research material is the kinds of fight scenes you want to write. Do you want harsh and bloody with lots of realism? A focus on the mental processes and emotion? Or epic heroism with nearly impossible feats of physical prowess?

Then find books which have those scenes and read the hell out of them. When I was younger, my dad handed me a copy of Conan the Freebooter and read a passage that featured Conan riding through a battlefield. In just a single paragraph, Conan's skill was shown, his fighting style, his vast knowledge of various weapons, and his demeanor on the battlefield.

Make sure there's more to your fight scene than just the thrusts and parries, that it tells a story the same way a choreographed dance piece does, and you'll do fine.

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