Oh muse, where art thou?

[athenaltena]

Three words to describe the beginning of my day at work:

Four foot flames.

This is why we don't let the new kids handle the kerosene heater. ^_^; Luckily no one was standing in front of it at the time (I was off to the side near the switch), but that served as a lesson for why we tell them not to mess with the equipment. Cody's going to get yelled at come Monday for sure. I also had to manual thaw out the track, which involves jumping down into the pit with the hose and manually spraying everything down -- with cold water, no less. Yeesh.

In other, non-flame and ice related news, I found another entry for the character song folder for Project Samurai (essentially the things I listen to when I'm stuck) the title of which might just work as the title for the first part of the story (it's to be divided into two parts). Which reminds me, I've been meaning to put the revised version of said story up on FictionPress to get some critique and maybe see how the people who liked the first version react to the updated bits.

The song, by the way, is "Come Alive" by the Foo Fighters. Awesome band, easily one of the best of the last 10 years, IMO. They actually know how to use dynamics and contrast! In this song the very end gets loud after it starts out quiet, but at the concert of random local bands I went to last month and didn't like the music loud all the blasted time. That sort of thing works better when you haves something to contrast it with, as these guys show (see also "Let it Die" for an epic use of that technique).

Also, does anyone know any guides to writing about combat? That's one thing that's been strangling my muse lately, since whenever I try to write about a fight scene it ends up sounding awkward. And given that the main characters are samurai, this is a problem. Linkys? Tips? Scraps?

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[pegasi1978.livejournal.com]

Also, does anyone know any guides to writing about combat? That's one thing that's been strangling my muse lately, since whenever I try to write about a fight scene it ends up sounding awkward. And given that the main characters are samurai, this is a problem. Linkys? Tips? Scraps?

Try describing the fight scene to someone verbally. Then write down what you just said! I'm trying to think of books with fight scenes (especially sword fights), but the only ones I can think of aren't in print any more. There was a very short lived Highlander book series based off the television show. If you could track down one of those they have fight scenes in them.

[kawakiisakazuki.livejournal.com]

There was a writer forum about combat linked to on oyasumi once, unfortunately I didn't save the link. Perhaps google for that.