Writing Excuses 10.33: Combat, with Marie Brennan

Update: 2015-08-16

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Marie Brennan joins us again, this time for a discussion about writing combat. She's studied fencing, combat choreography, and is *this close* to having a black belt in shotokan karate, bringing a valuable perspective to the discussion. Also, she's written an ebook called Writing Fight Scenes, so she knows how to talk about this stuff.

We discuss some of our favorite fight scenes in movies and in books, why they work well, and how we can go about creating those sorts of things ourselves.

That Scene We Couldn't Stop Gushing About: Here's a no-Netflix-membership-required version of the Daredevil fight scene. It's a teaser from Netflix, but it's unabridged. For context, Daredevil is looking for a kidnapped child, and has tracked the boy's captors to this hallway.

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Writing Excuses 10.33: Combat, with Marie Brennan

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Writing Excuses 10.33: Combat, with Marie Brennan

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Writing Excuses 10.33: Combat, with Marie Brennan