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Link September 10, 2014 Chelsea Schmitt

Weapons (and Women)

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Aw Gawd, she’s back again with those rants about women and X, run for the hills!

Actually, this (hopefully) won’t be so much of a rant. It’s designed to be a catalogue of weapons, but in addition, I’ll be adding a few notes on their usage by women. Some of that will be…

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Previous PostSo I really like adventure and action stories and I come up with a lot of them but the problem is I’m not confident in my ability to write action sequences. One of the reasons is that I don’t know the mindset of a fighter (or people in danger in general). Another one of my problems is that I don’t know how much detail I should go into when describing an action scene. Do you have any advice on how I can work on these things?Next PostNext Post

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