Writing Violence III: Getting Hit and Hitting

Why do humans hit each other? Are we programmed to attack each other ineffectively for social reasons? How do we lose power when we strike? How can your character minimize the damage of being struck? How do you write convincing fight scenes? What does a character have to do to injure another character with bare hands? It's not through striking. Strikes are a very specific form of violence. A form that your readers are knowledgeable about. A form that you'll destroy your reader's suspension of disbelief if you don't get right.

The Writing Violence series is designed to help authors create stronger action scenes by providing them with a fundamental understanding of how violence actually works. These guides give them tools to give their writing staggering believability. As truth is often stranger than fiction, a working knowledge of violence frees writers to create a broader range of exciting action scenes.