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Dimensia
Drive-by Camwhore
Join date: 2011-02-13
Location: America
|  Subject: How to avoid the Ikea fight scene? Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:43 pm | |
| From my understanding, Ikea sex is a naughty scene that is done very poorly and with no art. (And yes, there are probably lots of people who do have sex in this way.)
While I don't think I've done anything that pings on the citrus scale at all, I have tried to do action scenes, and it's little better than "and this guy punched that guy in the face and won."
Since I'm still working in a fandom where the characters get physical if arguing doesn't work, and I'm likely to run into that even if I hop fandoms, what's a good magic bullet for the uninteresting fight scene? |
| | | | rae
Contributor
Join date: 2009-06-10
Location: computer chair
| | Subject: Re: How to avoid the Ikea fight scene? Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:07 pm | |
| That's really going to depend on what you are writing. My suggestion is to watch some episodes of involving the characters you are writing. Skip to the fight scenes, then figure out how you would write them, move by move. This will give you a feel for the technical aspects. DO NOT put this in your fic. The only time you should include every move is if it is seriously only two or three moves.
Look at what you've written, and delete any moves that are unimportant. Practice putting a 'bridge' between important events in the fight that sums up 'they fought.' To quote a fight scene a friend wrote, "They whirled around one another, knives flashing, neither able to find an opening. [Character]'s eyes stung from sweat." Now look at what you've written again. Smooth it out, add details so it's not just, "He kicked him in the thorax and punched him in the neck." Unless this is a fandom that reeeeally likes its fight scenes, and this is the big fight, there's generally no need to go into more than the very last moves. |
| | | | Dimensia
Drive-by Camwhore
Join date: 2011-02-13
Location: America
| | Subject: Re: How to avoid the Ikea fight scene? Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:19 pm | |
| | rae wrote: | That's really going to depend on what you are writing. My suggestion is to watch some episodes of involving the characters you are writing. Skip to the fight scenes, then figure out how you would write them, move by move. This will give you a feel for the technical aspects. DO NOT put this in your fic. The only time you should include every move is if it is seriously only two or three moves.
Look at what you've written, and delete any moves that are unimportant. Practice putting a 'bridge' between important events in the fight that sums up 'they fought.' To quote a fight scene a friend wrote, "They whirled around one another, knives flashing, neither able to find an opening. [Character]'s eyes stung from sweat." Now look at what you've written again. Smooth it out, add details so it's not just, "He kicked him in the thorax and punched him in the neck." Unless this is a fandom that reeeeally likes its fight scenes, and this is the big fight, there's generally no need to go into more than the very last moves. |
Ah. The characters are never shown in the situation I have them in. Almost every fight has either been one-sided, with the exception being an armed fight that could only end with one dead. They've never had an unarmed sparring session where their strengths are equivalent within the fandom.
Since I tend to skip over fight scenes when I'm reading the fandom anyway, I might try the emotional delving and banter instead of giving a move-by-move rundown. |
| | | | Grimley Fieendish
Sporkbender
Join date: 2009-09-07
Age: 48
Location: Currently, running a Ski Resort on Hoth
| | Subject: Re: How to avoid the Ikea fight scene? Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:11 pm | |
| Re: "Ikea fighting" scenes... Of course, you could proverbially "take the mickey" out of the entire concept, & have a key epic fight scene inside a Ikea showroom/warehouse, just for the lulz...  |
| | | | Lady Anne
NO NOT THE BEEEEES
Join date: 2009-06-12
Age: 35
Location: The land of the fruits and nuts
| | Subject: Re: How to avoid the Ikea fight scene? Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:08 pm | |
| | Grimley Fieendish wrote: | Re: "Ikea fighting" scenes...
Of course, you could proverbially "take the mickey" out of the entire concept, & have a key epic fight scene inside a Ikea showroom/warehouse, just for the lulz... |
Write it! Write it! Write it! |
| | | | Penguin
NO NOT THE BEEEEES
Join date: 2009-07-19
Location: Wild Gray Yonder
| | Subject: Re: How to avoid the Ikea fight scene? Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:43 pm | |
| | Dimensia wrote: | From my understanding, Ikea sex is a naughty scene that is done very poorly and with no art. (And yes, there are probably lots of people who do have sex in this way.)
While I don't think I've done anything that pings on the citrus scale at all, I have tried to do action scenes, and it's little better than "and this guy punched that guy in the face and won."
Since I'm still working in a fandom where the characters get physical if arguing doesn't work, and I'm likely to run into that even if I hop fandoms, what's a good magic bullet for the uninteresting fight scene? |
It depends on whether you want it to be realistic or not. |
| | | | rae
Contributor
Join date: 2009-06-10
Location: computer chair
| | Subject: Re: How to avoid the Ikea fight scene? Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:30 pm | |
| I didn't actually mean for you to steal a scene from the show. :-\ I meant get a feel for how they fight, how to describe it, and how to pick what is actually important in the fight so that you can properly visualize something original, and leave all the rest to emotional/physical reactions. |
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