Where People Are Stabbed If your character is wielding a knife or on the receiving end of a blade, you might be …
Where to Punch a Character and Why
If you are blocking a fight scene ripe with punches, this post is for you. It's important to know where to punch a …
Injuries by Magic: Four Things to Consider
Injuries by magic! If you are a fantasy writer, this is a subject near and dear to your heart. And, at conferences for …
Dislocating A Thumb to Escape Handcuffs
Is dislocating a thumb to escape handcuffs a "thing?" Recently, at a writer's conference, I was on a panel called "Blood …
Emergency Room Terms for Writers
Where there is a fight, there is often injury. If your character ends up in the ER, here are some emergency room terms …
Bullwhips Use & Bullwhip Injuries
I was recently asked about bullwhip injuries via an IG story posted by @rachelschadeauthor which, I LOVED!!!!! Buy …
Describing Pain for Writers and their Character
Looking for a word to describe that pain? Here are some adjectives for pain as well as descriptions of the five major …
X-Choke Arm Bar
I do Brazilian jiu-jitsu and all along I am asked to do videos for BJJSoul. In my Writer's Digest/Penguin book, Fight …
Breaking Zip Ties – For Writers
Zip ties are little strips of plastic used to bind items together. I'm not sure who came up these suckers, but they are …
How Women Kill
Female hostility is different than that of men. However, it’s the male version with which we are most familiar. That’s …
Hitting a Pro
Disparity between combatants is the most common issue that authors present to me. Either one combatant is larger than …
Surviving a Throat Cut – Featured FightWriter: Heather Titus
Our featured FightWriter Heather Titus asks: Can a character survive his throat being cut? That is a very good …
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