Unlock the Secrets Behind Writing Fight Scenes That Leap Off the Page
That’s just dumb. If you’re showing your reader a movie in their head, don’t run the movie backwards.
Show Sequence, not Simultaneity
It rarely makes sense to try to make two different actions simultaneous in a fight scene.
Why? Because a fight scene is chock full of all different sorts of actions, each of which takes a different amount of time. If one action takes a tenth of a second and another takes two seconds, the action will feel distorted if the author asserts that they happen simultaneously.
