Fight for the Soul: How to Write Fight Scenes that Hit Harder

How do you write impactful fight scenes?

Whether you’re writing a novel, a screenplay, or choreographing a video sequence, fight scenes can be great for pacing, exciting action, and character development. But they can be really challenging to write!

In a podcast episode with the One Brilliant Arc story team, we talked about the film Creed and how that film crafted their

fight scenes well by masterfully connecting each scene to the character’s internal conflict. If you would like to see the full discussion with our team of writer/editors and story coaches, check it out on YouTube or Spotify.

Want to learn how to master writing character's internal conflict with external action? Want to make sure your action scenes are paced well and have a purpose within the greater character and plot arcs of your story?

In this mini guide, we’ll show you how to do just that in 3 steps.