Marie Brennan

R. A. Salvatore’s Dark Elf series

I’ve gotten more experience along the way. Apart from fencing, I studied kung fu briefly in college, and karate more extensively in recent years.

And, of course, I’ve continued to write, with eight novels out and more on the way, many of which contain some kind of combat.

So my background in the topic is as a writer, a fight choreographer, and a fan.

If you have for some reason never seen this movie, drop everything and go watch it now, you poor, deprived soul.

This guide collates, revises, and expands a series of posts made on the SF Novelists blog and my own LiveJournal.

It isn’t—or shouldn’t be—pure spectacle, especially in prose.

Even when the matter isn’t life-or-death, violent actions can be very telling.

What is the purpose of this fight?

is gifted at combat beyond the norm.