As I am writing my current fanfiction, I reminded as to why I stopped writing my P3 fanfic. Fight scenes.
I LOATHE writing fight scenes. I can plan out character driven scenes and stories that contain fluff, angst, relationships, conflicts etc. But when it concerns having to write an epic, awesome fight scenes where the stakes are high and chips are down, you can bet I can't formulate how it would go down. I can come up with ideas on how they'd do it but I cannot for the life of me, get the scene written down.
And what sucks more is that more often than not, I feel when I write the scene down, it takes away any of the awesomeness it had in my head. My writing style is very direct. I don't bother to use metaphors or euphemisms and I often don't bother to paint a picture and instead focus on creating the dialogue and the character beats. So when I am writing down a fight scene, I often just write what directly happens "X punches Y, Y tackles X" and it takes away any of the possible thrill and excitement it had if it was done in an anime or movie where you visually see what happens.
You could literally pay me $1,000,000,000 to write a fight scene without any sort of references and I would decline.
But do y'all have any tips on how to write fight scenes? I am at a point in my story where a fight scene needs to happen and I cannot avoid it.
