March 01, 2019

3.3 The Anatomy of a Fight Scene with Tricia Levenseller

27 minutes

Tricia Levenseller is the author of the Daughter of the Pirate King duology and standalone Warrior of the Wild. She likes to describe her books as young adult alternate–world historical fantasies with heavy romantic subplots.

One thing that a lot of new writers struggle with is writing a good fight scene that moves quickly and makes sense. In this episode, Tricia Levenseller breaks things down to give us ideas on what to pay attention to and how to make our fight scenes have an extra dash of awesome.

Some things we mention on the podcast:

Star Wars (movie series)

The Winner's Trilogy by Marie Rutkoski

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Zombies Run (Mobile App)

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

The Swan Princess (Movie)

The Harry Potter Series

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