Tips On How To Write An Action Scene That Is Tight

Follow these 3 tips to make it jump off the page

Geri Spieler
Writers’ Blokke
Published in
3 min readMar 4, 2022

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Here is the first thing you have to decide: What are you writing? Is it a battle or a physical fight? It’s an important question as the answers will be different.

To be clear, this post is all about the action scenes. Short and tight.

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Geri Spieler
Writers’ Blokke

Award-winning writer, master researcher, journalist, former Gartner analyst, non-fiction author. Reach me at gspieler@gmail.com