Nicholas Reicher Posts

After I wrote my guide to fight scenes, suddenly a lot of authors are writing their own guide to fight scenes. I resolved years ago…

When getting your protagonist to a dojo, the first thing you do is bow in as you enter the dojo. Then depending on custom, you…

Let’s look at techniques, and then Thursday I’ll give you blow by blow of techniques. Karate teaches you to chamber or “Yoi” techniques before you…

One of the big disappointments to people who’ve trained and dedicated their lives to martial arts is to read books that get Karate completely  wrong.…

This is an add on to my writer’s guide for fight scenes. I decided to do Karate separately, because there’s HUGE misunderstandings about Karate –…

Where can you find ideas for your novels? Everywhere. I’ve recently come to the conclusion that unless I become a full time writer, there’s no…

Bibisco I have a habit of looking around a couple times a year for any writing software I haven’t tried. There’s one hugely overpriced writing…

Writers write in scenes. We visualize the scene. With experience, we identify the scenes’ goals. We determine what must happen in the scene, and what…

Writers often end up with fragments of several books. You’ve got your main books you’re writing, and the skeleton of two more, and often five…

Sorry for missing last week – I’m now in the finishing stages of completing a project for Cardinal Point Films. There still has to be…