How do I best write an action-packed fight scene? What's the writers' equivalent of the shaky cam??
What you do is, you shake the page while you’re writing on it. It’s way, way better with an old Smith-Corona, or even with a fucking pen -- remember pens? Fuck I miss pens -- because then the editor will SEE the drama. They’ll fight for you. They’ll make them shake the whole fucking printing press while they’re printing YOUR BOOK. Fuck yeah. Shaking laptops isn’t the same.
The other answer -- and I can’t stress this enough -- is Precious Bodily Fluids. Every fight scene’s gotta have them. Acid-spitters, shit-flingers, pissing robots, fuck, dude, you need it all. That one guy shitting blood in the corner. Makes the whole scene feel REAL, man. Like you’re IN it, like it’s POWERFUL.
Remember: shitting blood is the realest thing you’ll ever write. You gotta respect it. Approach it with caution. Like a fucking moose.
Read action books. These are the best action books. Ready?
Flowers for Algernon
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Even Better
Daffy Duck Does Dallas
Adventures at Waffle House
Pride and Prejudice (and not the zombie shit, the rewrite, the fucking... Austen? Whoeveritwas.)
Girl on a Snake on a Plane
Fuck yeah! Bigly!
Oh shit that’s the wrong list.
Ummmmm.
Shit.
Shit BLOOD. And Gorgonzola. Fuck yeah.
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