Pacing-Tension Action Sequences: Writing Heart-Pounding Fight Scenes, Chases and Climaxes with Angela Knight

A crucial ingredient of great romantic suspense and adventure is the fight scene. Yet many writers have a difficult time pulling off believable fights and climaxes that deliver on reader expectations. New York Times bestselling author Angela Knight discusses the techniques she uses to create heart-pounding action sequences. She discusses how to create heroes and villains who are a good match for each other, how to choreograph fight scenes, and how to build a plotline that rises to a climax that makes readers eager for your next book.

Honor Roll member and New York Times bestselling author Angela Knight discusses the techniques she uses to write effective fight scenes. She provides tips on how to create fights that flow logically in a way readers can visualize without confusion. She reveals how to create a climactic fight that resolves not only the book’s external conflict, but the heroic couples’ internal and romantic conflicts as well. Knight also discusses using the five senses in fights, as well as how to use sentence length and rhythm to create a sense of urgency and threat.

Angela will also do off-list critiques of scenes on Tuesdays and Thursdays off-list for students, so you can get private feedback on your fight scenes if you need it.