Thursday, August 18, 2011

battle scene follow up

How was that for a battle scene? I have mostly been posting the story pieces and not commentary on their writing, but battle scenes always take more work than the rest, and I'm never sure they come across to readers as I intend. How was the pace, the feel? Over dramztized, too little tension? Too quick to feel like a battle? One of the typical pieces of advice that is hard to successfully follow is to develop a fast paced scene in fine detail, describing every moment, and generalize for a slower scene. Another piece of advice is to avoid all narration, to provide explanations for anything that needs explaining before or after, but the line between detail and narration can become blurred.