Action scenes can be such a pain to write. -_- I hadn't even realized that until I came to a few in an rpg I was part of earlier this year and got to a sword fight I had to write. Not only did it take forever, but I hadn't even thought of that stuff until it was time to actually write it.
Those little touches you talk about really help to give the reader something to latch onto when they are visualizing it in their minds. It's a case of just enough to get them started and yet not too much so you don't bog them down with details. Well other than some of the action. :p
"I easily could have, but for purposes of describing the action, it's not so necessary. Audience imagination can fill in the rest quite easily, I should think."
This is exactly how I feel when I'm writing. It bores me to pieces when authors go all out in describing everything about a room, or wherever the characters are--details that aren't even going to be relatively important to anything. Describe what's necessary, and let the audience do the rest, I say.
Rachmaninoff
Otaku Legend | Posted 08/05/08 | Reply
Action scenes can be such a pain to write. -_- I hadn't even realized that until I came to a few in an rpg I was part of earlier this year and got to a sword fight I had to write. Not only did it take forever, but I hadn't even thought of that stuff until it was time to actually write it.
Those little touches you talk about really help to give the reader something to latch onto when they are visualizing it in their minds. It's a case of just enough to get them started and yet not too much so you don't bog them down with details. Well other than some of the action. :p
Anyway, an interesting read.
-Darren
DDG
Senior Otaku | Posted 08/05/08 | Reply
"I easily could have, but for purposes of describing the action, it's not so necessary. Audience imagination can fill in the rest quite easily, I should think."
This is exactly how I feel when I'm writing. It bores me to pieces when authors go all out in describing everything about a room, or wherever the characters are--details that aren't even going to be relatively important to anything. Describe what's necessary, and let the audience do the rest, I say.
NightBeck
Otaku Eternal | Posted 08/04/08 | Reply
This was a great one for you to write! Action is totally my weakness in writing. Which reminds me, I'm off to read your prompt response now.
mewmewpudding
Otaku Eternal | Posted 08/04/08 | Reply
Huh, I never really thought about the scenery being a big helper.
And remembering the visual awe from watching the Revenge of the Sith's fight... That was amazing.
Man, I feel bad not coming to subscribe to you sooner. You have just cool things here, that I never noticed. I feel like I ought to be kicking myself.