Fight scenes! We love them when they’re good. They bore, confuse, or annoy us when they’re not. What makes a great fight scene? Listen to this great conversation with Carla Cook Hoch, author of Fight Write, and the things we need to think about during a fight scene to make them authentic and engage the reader.
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How did Carla get involved with martial arts and self defense?
What is her background in writing?
What are some common ways writers get fight scenes wrong?
What are some examples of when a book or movie got fight scenes right?
What are some ways that writers can improve their fight scenes?
What makes fight scenes seem authentic?
What are some of the chapters in the book that deal with emotions and the mind?
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Why are writing conferences so important to authors? Steven and Britt just got back from the Serious Writer one day bootcamp in Nashville, Tennessee at a publishing house, and we talk about the conference and the unique and convenient aspects of these one day conferences. Then author MB Mooney reads the last flash fiction of the season, The Truth of the Hunter, revisiting Dr. Wincek and Dr. Wolfe.
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Why are writing conferences important?
What kind of writing conferences are there?
What makes the Serious Writer conferences unique?
Why are both craft and platform important?
What were some of our favorite parts of the conference?
Creativity is inconvenient. When we get in the middle of a project and here comes a great new idea. What do we do with it? Make it a part of the current project or start a new one? Brew & Ink discuss where to stick our new ideas. Then Steven Faletti shares The Thief and the Gateway, a new flash fiction from Midnight Showing victim’s point of view. After that fun story, vote on the title for MB Mooney‘s flash fiction in two weeks.
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Creative people get new ideas. Why is that inconvenient?
The movie event of the year. What we’ve all been waiting for. A culmination the revolutionary 22 movies and marketing that built up to this. Listen as Steven and Britt give a SPOILER FILLED review of Avengers: Endgame.
