Joseph Malik
  • Home
  • Dragon’s Trail
  • The New Magic
  • About the Author
  • Blog
  • Store
Select Page
Blurry Heroes and Detailed Fights: What’s Wrong with Fantasy Combat

Blurry Heroes and Detailed Fights: What’s Wrong with Fantasy Combat

by Joseph Malik | Apr 29, 2016 | Dragon's Trail, Worldbuilding

So I have a fight scene early-on which covers four pages, though the action itself is two sentences long. Thirty words. Harold lunged. Jarrod exploded forward in a whirl of flashing steel, and Harold crumpled and spilled into a knee-deep puddle, pleading his surrender...

Recent Posts

  • Christmas 2020: STONELANDS
  • “It’s Probably Fine” : Winter 2020
  • Schedule: Radcon 8, Pasco, WA Feb 14-16 2020
  • Research IS Writing: Adventure Travel
  • On Process: Using the Force, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Type with my Eyes Closed

Most Read

  • Master Class: Armor
  • 30 Day Cliff, My Ass: Reflections on 10,000 Sales
  • Steel: The Everything of All Things
  • On Craft: Voice Basics
  • Fair Folk, Greek Literature, and the Plight of the Modern Cunning Linguist

Categories

  • Dragon's Trail (20)
  • Eligibility (1)
  • General (16)
  • In The Press (8)
  • The New Magic (13)
  • Worldbuilding (23)
  • Writing Craft (21)

Archives

  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • November 2019
  • August 2019
  • March 2019
  • January 2019
  • November 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • September 2017
  • July 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • January 2017
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • September 2015
  • April 2015
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RSS
Copyright 2017 Oxblood Books & Joseph Malik