Nightcrawler
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I swear, folks, writing a good gunfight scene can be frustrating. I mean, these things are supposed to be fast paced, and sometimes, when you put it down on paper (or type it into Wordpad), it seems like everything is going in slow-motion.
Though, having read nearly the entire Tom Clancy collection and some other very good novels has given me insight on how to pull it off. Robert A. Heinlein does a great job too, though I've only read two of his books (Starship Troopers and Friday).
Gotta stick with it, though. After much excuse making, I've made getting back into writing to be one of my new year's resolutions (that and getting back into shape. Qatar and Mississippi dang near killed me. Well, Mississippi killed me on the inside, but that's different).
Problem is, Qatar made me stupid. But I'm working on that. Now that I've got a bit of free time (well, I'm going on vacation today, but after I get back, I'll have free time), I might as well get rolling, right?
Anyway, as I was saying, the pacing of a gunfight (or any action scene, for that matter) can be difficult in writing. It can take pages to describe something that happens in moments, and it can bog everything down.
I also have to be careful not to use too much jargon. I try to generify (I think I just made that word up) much of the terminology so, you know, a non High-Roader could understand what the heck I'm talking about.
I like writing fiction. I mean, my previously famous, now-forgotten story was so fun to write I'm suprised it wasn't illegal. And not just because it was a bunch of self-aggrandizing, either. It was fun because I just had fun with it, you know?
The writing comes easy for me, sometimes. Often, it's creating a halfway-decent story that's the hard part. The aforementioned story was in many ways a cop-out. By writing about myself in my own location, I avoided having to create a setting (mostly) and a lot of character creation.
I'm good at setting creation; I often have ideas that I think would be great settings for stories. Where I run into trouble is creating characters and stories to take place in those settings, you know?
I'm not going to focus entirely on fiction. Eventually, no BS, I'm going to write an article and submit it to a gun magazine. A respectable one that I read, not one of those silly ones (you know the ones I mean).
Anyway, any other would-be writers on THR have difficulty typing a good gunfight?
Though, having read nearly the entire Tom Clancy collection and some other very good novels has given me insight on how to pull it off. Robert A. Heinlein does a great job too, though I've only read two of his books (Starship Troopers and Friday).
Gotta stick with it, though. After much excuse making, I've made getting back into writing to be one of my new year's resolutions (that and getting back into shape. Qatar and Mississippi dang near killed me. Well, Mississippi killed me on the inside, but that's different).
Problem is, Qatar made me stupid. But I'm working on that. Now that I've got a bit of free time (well, I'm going on vacation today, but after I get back, I'll have free time), I might as well get rolling, right?
Anyway, as I was saying, the pacing of a gunfight (or any action scene, for that matter) can be difficult in writing. It can take pages to describe something that happens in moments, and it can bog everything down.
I also have to be careful not to use too much jargon. I try to generify (I think I just made that word up) much of the terminology so, you know, a non High-Roader could understand what the heck I'm talking about.
I like writing fiction. I mean, my previously famous, now-forgotten story was so fun to write I'm suprised it wasn't illegal. And not just because it was a bunch of self-aggrandizing, either. It was fun because I just had fun with it, you know?
The writing comes easy for me, sometimes. Often, it's creating a halfway-decent story that's the hard part. The aforementioned story was in many ways a cop-out. By writing about myself in my own location, I avoided having to create a setting (mostly) and a lot of character creation.
I'm good at setting creation; I often have ideas that I think would be great settings for stories. Where I run into trouble is creating characters and stories to take place in those settings, you know?
I'm not going to focus entirely on fiction. Eventually, no BS, I'm going to write an article and submit it to a gun magazine. A respectable one that I read, not one of those silly ones (you know the ones I mean).
Anyway, any other would-be writers on THR have difficulty typing a good gunfight?