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moonlight-at-dawn · 2 years ago

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Good thing about writing hand-to-hand fight scenes: I am intimately familiar with how it works and don't have to bullshit something together or do any research

Bad thing about writing hand-to-hand fight scenes: I have to assume readers do NOT know anything about it, and describe the movements rather than name them. Because nothing ruins a reading experience like not having any fucking clue what is happening.

#misha rambles #one of these lines is awkward and i need to find a better way to describe it bc it doesn't feel right #i think i fixed it up but woof that was rough #it's always been a peeve of mine when fanfic writers just name moves instead of describing them #the amount of knowledge that assumes a reader has is ridiculous #like... if you had never had a roundhouse kick explained/shown alongside its name #you'd probably confused it with the 'crescent kick' because of the 'round' in its name you'd infer an arc #but it's a snapping kick that starts like a front kick but whips in from the side and uses the top of the foot for the strike #and that's one of the most basic and commonly used in writing #AND that's just when a writer uses ENGLISH for it #don't even get me STARTED on when i read about a mawashigeri instead of a crescent kick #...it's been so long since i was in karate that i can't even remember the jp word for a roundhouse jfc #enpizuki just say they slammed their elbow into the guy cmooonnn

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