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The Writer’s Guide To Weapons 4

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…

The Writer’s Guide To Weapons 3

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…

The Writer’s Guide to weapons 2

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…

The Writer’s Guide to weapons

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 –…

The Writers Guide to Fight scenes 9

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?…

The Writer’s Guide to Fight Scenes VIII

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…

The Writer’s Guide to Fight Scenes VII

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…

The Writer’s Guide to Fight Scenes VI

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…

The Writer’s Guide to Fight Scenes V

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…

The Writer’s Guide to Writing Fight Scenes IV

Okinawa Okinawa is the birthplace of Karate. There are at several major styles of Karate that arose in Okinawan. The histories differ on whether the…