{"id":12030,"date":"2014-10-10T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/dont-write-action-sequences\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:20:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T05:20:33","slug":"dont-write-action-sequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/dont-write-action-sequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t write action sequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Write suspense sequences that require action to resolve.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;[&#8230;] every action sequence has its own internal three act structure. Objective, complication, resolution. And not only that, but the complication needs to be something which forces a choice on the character, not just a complication in physical circumstances.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Via (and thanks!) <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104915224203075819082\">Rob Donoghue<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/writing-action-scenes.html'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-PAwByAdob_M\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAABII\/kAhqe5cAXHs\/w120-h120\/photo.jpg' border='0' \/>Writing: Action Scenes<\/a><br \/>Recently, our morphine-grogged friend (get well soon) Josh Friedman penned another one of his mini-masterpieces on writing sex scenes. Specifically, how he find writing sex scenes interesting, but he&#8217;s not all that sussed on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Write suspense sequences that require action to resolve.&quot; &quot;[&#8230;] every action sequence has its own internal three act structure. Objective, complication, resolution. And not only that, but the complication needs to be something which forces a choice on the character, not just a complication in physical circumstances.&quot; Via (and thanks!) +Rob Donoghue. Writing: Action ScenesRecently, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/dont-write-action-sequences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t write action sequences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-12030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15651,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions\/15651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}