Writing Action – Written Well

I am going to get right to the point and tell you the secret of writing action scenes:

It's not about the action.

Like everything else in writing, it's about character. A lot of people think reading action scenes is boring. And done poorly, it is. It's not a movie. We can't add camera angles and sound effects and a chaotic score that all drive the excitement; we have only words. But with those words—and clever choices of what words they are—we can do something that movie action scenes . . .

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Adam Stemple

Adam Stemple is an award-winning author, poet, and musician. Of his first novel, SINGER OF SOULS, SFWA Grandmaster Anne McCaffrey said, "One of the best first novels I have ever read." Of his later works, Hugo Award winning author Naomi Kritzer said, "No one writes bastard-son-of-a-bitch characters as brilliantly as Adam Stemple."