Fight Co-Ordination: I am not good at it.

[hells_half_acre]

Well, if my bad knees and lack of training didn't cinch it, my lack of ability to co-ordinate a fight would: I will never be a stunt man or fight choreographer. :P

For one of the stories I'm writing, I have to write a fight involving 4 good guys and 2 bad guys. Good guy #1 has to do something stupid that puts him directly in harm's way. Good guy #2 has to get a minor injury (optional). Good guy #3 has to perform magic from the sidelines to save Good guy #1 without being seen (obviously, this is Merlin). Good guy #4 has to do something so that he's not a waste of space. Bad guy #2 has to somehow sneak up on them after they take out bad guy #1. 

I cannot figure out how to do it. And it is driving me nuts.

Writing is hard.

Comments

[ramblin_rosie]

Considering that my first thought was "Needs more bad guys," I don't think I'll be much help. :P Unless it's a shootout/ambush? (Sorry, I'm currently working mainly on scenarios where the heroes are generally outnumbered 100:1.)

[mymuseandi.livejournal.com]

Happy 2013!! :)

A suggestion: maybe you can watch a vid in youtube of a fight? Or several fights, and then try to describe what you're watching in Merlin terms :)

[thursdaysisters.livejournal.com]

I feel ya, I got a lot of my fight vocabulary reading Raymond Chandler noir (also, Jim Butcher's "Dresden" books would be right up your alley, lots of magic/non-magical combat).

[liliaeth]

Now I assume this will be set in Merlin's era. So what about involving horses. The bad guys spook the horses, gg1 tries to stopthem and nearly gets trampled for his efforts. Merlin could use a spell to calm the horses while 2 nearly gets run over by them as well. 4 can then take one bad guy while 2 takes the other one

[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

Fight scenes are a specialty of mine. When I beta for sandymg, she has sent stories that say 'insert fight scene' to me :)

I'd be happy to help if time is not critical, I have limited free time for the next few days.