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Writing Excuses 5.30: Writing Action

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How to Write a Scary Slap Fight

I think that there are I mean I would say more common than not when there's action in books it is usually the kind of ordinary person thrust into extraordinary circumstances. a counter example to all of these like I said in my book the characters are well as YA their teenagers and even though some of them are kind of gang member guys no one has been trained in anything. One of my favorite action scenes favorite fight scenes in a book is patient zero by Jonathan Mayberry where basically the the Department of military sciences has pulled all of the biggest toughest dudes that they can from the various branches and military. The way that I write the first draft always is I will put the characters into a situation where

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