Dasquian Belargic
May 7th, 2011, 03:40:00 PM
I'm just making my way through Violence: A Writers Guide which isn't so much a book on writing technique as it is a guide to writing violence/fights with some sense of realism. The book is just available on eBook, either through the authors website or Amazon Kindle, and is pretty cheap, so I'd recommend a flick through if only to make you re-consider the way you write about physical conflict.
"Violence: A Writer's Guide" is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.
Here's a bit about the author from his website: http://www.chirontraining.com/Site/Home.html
Force is a form of communication. It is the most emphatic possible way of saying “no”. For years my job was to say no, sometimes very emphatically, to violent people.
I can make it sound more official, but in the end I was paid to go into a volatile situation, usually alone and usually outnumbered by sixty or more to one and prevent inmates from preying on each other or attacking my fellow officers.
That was the job.
I have been a Corrections Officer, a Sergeant, a Tactical Team member and a Tactical Team Leader; I have taught corrections and enforcement personnel skills from first aid to physical defense to crisis communication and mental health. I’ve done this from my west coast home to Baghdad. So far, my life has been a blast.
I’m a bit scarred up, but generally happy.
"Violence: A Writer's Guide" is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.
Here's a bit about the author from his website: http://www.chirontraining.com/Site/Home.html
Force is a form of communication. It is the most emphatic possible way of saying “no”. For years my job was to say no, sometimes very emphatically, to violent people.
I can make it sound more official, but in the end I was paid to go into a volatile situation, usually alone and usually outnumbered by sixty or more to one and prevent inmates from preying on each other or attacking my fellow officers.
That was the job.
I have been a Corrections Officer, a Sergeant, a Tactical Team member and a Tactical Team Leader; I have taught corrections and enforcement personnel skills from first aid to physical defense to crisis communication and mental health. I’ve done this from my west coast home to Baghdad. So far, my life has been a blast.
I’m a bit scarred up, but generally happy.