I generally love writing large fight scenes where I can have my character jump from person to person. However, I need to write a one on one hand to hand fight scene and I am a little stuck on how to keep it going and intense at the same time. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks Kat

Take a cue from comic books. Add lots of ZAP! POW! BOOM! in there.

Seriously though, I kinda suck at this too. That's why I rarely do them. Some verbal sparring back and forth and excitement from the characters themselves should help, though.

Perhaps taking your fight scene out of your novel and writing it as a flash fiction piece might help with the action?

I took a Flash Fiction course for my Master's and restricting your scene down to like 500 words sometimes really helps map out a scene to get it down to just strictly feelings and emotions and really gaining clarity on a scene. You can even expand it to 700 or 1000. But I usually use 500 because it makes me hyper focus on the power of words and makes my selections that much more thoughtful.

However, since thisisNaNoWrimo and the point to all of this is to just get the verbal diarrhea out- maybe just write it with action as if you were an announcer telling everyone out in radio land what was happening- and then going back and "fixing" it during the editing process in December.

That is extremely helpful! Thanks :)

Thanks everyone, those are some helpful ideas :)

This just came up on The Twitter... IDK if its helpful, but saw it and thought of you!

http://www.writerscarnival.ca/how-to-write-fight-scenes/