Okay, let’s look at flintlocks, muskets, and black powder cowboy guns. Back in the day, firearms were ridiculously difficult to load, aim and fire. You…
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
Okay, let’s look at flintlocks, muskets, and black powder cowboy guns. Back in the day, firearms were ridiculously difficult to load, aim and fire. You…
Why am I spending so much time on guns? Well, odds are probably about 90% that if you plan on someone murdering someone else in…
Let’s talk about rifles and so-called assault weapons. You can’t call a AK-47 a “Machine gun”. It’s like calling a Mercedes a “Bus”. Machine guns…
Let’s look at guns first. The gun is the most common weapon used in novels. What’s the least? A little known African weapon known as…
We’ve done a VERY cursory examination of unarmed fighting, and I’ve left a lot out. I didn’t even touch on Filipino arts at all –…
Gave up on the roman numerals. I was having nightmares of being back in 8th grade. AUUGHHH!!!! So, how do you write a fight scene?…
Roman Numerals. My first big mistake with this series! I remember just after getting my second degree black belt, reading a sci-fi novel where someone…
Modern martial arts. There’s been a ton of them, like combat-o, who made the mistake of bragging they were unbeatable. Then they went into the…
I better wind this series up soon, or I’m going to have to try to remember what C and M are in Roman Numerals! I’ve…
Yesterday, we covered Okinawan Karate. Japanese Karate to a certain extent was derived from the first few years of Funakoshi’s students, who transformed it into…