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December 18, 2016 By Andrew Jack

Happy Holidays?

This is super late. Sorry folks, I am bad about recognizing the abstract concept of time. It's been a pretty bad year for a lot of people. In … [Read more...]

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December 1, 2016 By Andrew Jack

Writing Fighting: Music to Maim To

A quick post today...because I'm a terrible person and left this way too late. I deserve all the scorn. ALL OF IT. Ahem. Anyway, I've been … [Read more...]

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November 17, 2016 By Andrew Jack

Writing fighting: Fear

Fear is a weird thing. It has different flavors. It's supposed to keep us alive, but it can be our undoing. It's supposed to inspire fight or flight, … [Read more...]

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October 21, 2016 By Andrew Jack

Writing fighting: Five options for characters who are outgunned, outmuscled and out of luck.

The normal caveat applies twice for this one: This is advice about writing about fighting based on the experiences and training I've had, not the be … [Read more...]

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October 6, 2016 By Andrew Jack

A common enemy

Brace yourselves, this is a weird one. I've been thinking a lot about mooks. The anonymous, often faceless masses of low level bad guys a … [Read more...]

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September 21, 2016 By Andrew Jack

Writing fighting: Time perception

We see it so often in movies that it’s a cliché…something terribly stressful happens and our protagonist, either through otherworldly skill, powers or … [Read more...]

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September 7, 2016 By Andrew Jack

Ten way to mess up your writing convention experience

I recently bit the eighteen hours of travel and enormous cost bullet of travelling to the USA to attend MidAmericon2 (WorldCon) in Kansas City, … [Read more...]

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August 26, 2016 By Andrew Jack

Nothing beats experience

I'm in Missouri right now. This might not seem like a big deal to anyone else, but I'm a Kiwi, a person from New Zealand. I am a long, long way … [Read more...]

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August 12, 2016 By Andrew Jack

OODA Loops

This blog post is brought to you by the letter P, for panic, and the letter D, for disorganization. I completely forgot I had an article due, and … [Read more...]

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July 21, 2016 By Andrew Jack

Swim in the right direction

So I was going to write about the Russian Martial Art SAMBO this week, but I got a little too into the research phase ended up with a half finished … [Read more...]

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June 30, 2016 By Andrew Jack

Writing fighting: Catch Wrestling

Almost every story has conflict in it, and a surprising amount of that fictional conflict ends up being facey punchy type fighting. A lot of our … [Read more...]

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June 15, 2016 By Andrew Jack

Writing fighting: Big and strong.

I read a lot of fiction and I see some tropes repeat themselves over and over (this isn't even the first time I've said this). One of the ones that … [Read more...]

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