Category: Fighting Words
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Top Four Fantastic Weapons of Indonesia
Check out four of the cool weapons I might add to my next fantasy series. What’s your favorite?
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The Revenant: Thoughts on the Film
Often a great story does not depend so much on the protagonist as much as it does on a fully fleshed out antagonist.
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Grim Tidings Podcast and Reading
Hear me read the first chapter of Five Bloody Heads…as well as talk about writing and martial arts.
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Writing Advice: Grappling for Writers: Common Terms
Here’s a sneak peak of some material from my book focusing on bringing authentic grappling and wrestling arts into fiction.
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Writing Advice: Fight Scenes
Collected advice on how to write fight scenes in books from Brandon Sanderson, Alex Brown and more.
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Writing Advice: The Long Road
My writing was hitting a valley rather than a peak and I needed some writing advice. But from a martial arts training partner?
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From Fighting to Writing: How Competing in Martial Arts Helps in the Creative Process
The lessons I have learned in my study of martial arts, especially competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, have made me a stronger writer. Here are the 5 top lessons. Here are the top 5 lessons I have learned competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu that have made me a stronger writer.
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Top 5 Exotic Chinese Weapons
While my fantasy series The Hounds of the North takes place in a thinly disguised European- and African-inspired world, I have a strong background in the study of Asian martials arts. So this got me thinking. If my next series were to be written in a Chinese-influenced fantasy world, what would be the outlandish Chinese…
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Top 3 Viking Weapons
In my books The Witch of the Sands and Black River, my main characters, the Hounds of the North, are loosely inspired by a range of warrior peoples: Picts, Scots and Vikings. Given that, I added a heavy influence of Viking background weapons in the stories. Part of the fun in the stories was supplying…
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Run, stupid, run
The other night, as we were watching the latest incarnation of The Incredible Hulk, my daughter turned to me to during two major fight scenes and said, “Why don’t they just step out of the way?”