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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 88 - Writing the fight scene.
Description: Action is the most interesting element in most novels, and a fight is action.  Here are some techniques for writing a fight scene.  Also, here's an almost sure-fire way to prime the pump of our plotting, a way to invent more plot for our story.  And: thoughts about naming our characters.Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more.  Each episode is focused and about 30 minutes.  The full class—all 20 episodes—is available now for a one-time price of forty-nine dollars.  If you want structure...