A Revised Opinion of Fight Scenes

I need to amend yesterday's statement about fight scenes. It's not that I hate writing them, I hate planning them. Once I have them planned out, they're actually kind of fun to write. :) I got through the first part of the casino fight scene today, where my girl kicks a bunch of bad guy ass and saves herself. Next she's got to go kick bad guy ass to save her boyfriend. I tell ya, a woman's work is never done. ;)

I also caught up on the word count I missed in my slackage Thursday and Friday nights, so I'm pretty much back on track.

I did a ton of research today while planning out the fight scene. I learned a great many interesting things, all violent in nature, and looked at a bunch of pretty weapons. Looooooooots of fun. *big grin* I also found a great website that lists out a bunch of different places on the body, what to do to them to injure your opponent or render them unconscious (or, um, sometimes dead) and how to recover from such an injury, should you (or your character!) sustain one yourself. If anyone's interested, give me your email and I'll send you the link. I'd post it here, but I'm not sure if that's kosher since I don't have their permission to do so.

Now I have to go do something to get my mind off fighting so I can actually get some sleep at a reasonable hour tonight, else I will be a zombie at work tomorrow.

Sweet dreams everyone!

6175 / 60000 words. 10% done!

63963 / 120000 words. 53% done!