Topic of the Week - Happiness is a Warm Gun

[jer_bear711]

Since tomorrow is Veterans/Remembrance/Armistice Day, this topic seemed appropriate (or maybe horribly inappropriate--you decide):

jtucktattoo asks:

How do you go about picking weaponry/fighting styles for your characters? Do you choose things simply for their inherent "cool" factor, or do other things weigh in?

Great question, and one that points to an aspect

Comments

[sylverkit]

I love fighting scenes. I love imagining the battle in my head, the various strikes, parries, and fancy steps, and making it come alive in the story. Most of my characters use swords, but than again, most of my characters are urban faeries, so metal guns=ouch

[jer_bear711]

I'm the exact opposite--love scenes, no prob, but fights scenes are a nightmare. That's a great idea you have to use anime or samurai movies to get the moves down and recreating them verbally.

[dawn_metcalf]

Hear! Hear!

[reneesweet]

Did you, O Karate Mistress, just agree that writing fight scenes are a nightmare?? o_O

[dawn_metcalf]

Yes, indeedy! I am not fond of writing good ol' fight scenes -- although I just read Derek Landry's Skulduggery Pleasant books and his martial arts training shines through!