Consider other scents, such as the ambient aroma in the scene. You often see or hear a fight, but can you smell it? In person, what would the fight smell like? Probably sweat. Smell is one of my favorite senses to add to a fight scene because it’s rarely called upon. Describe how the characters feel and interact with each other physically. Touch is perhaps one of the easiest senses to convey. Instead of using phrases like, “he could taste fear in the air,” go for something more concrete like, “blood mixed with strawberry lip gloss was a strange taste indeed.” I hope you come up with something better than that, but you get the point. Taste is another sense to introduce into your fight scenes. By onomatopoeia, I don't mean turning your writing into a comic book style, with words like kapow or bang! Instead, I suggest using more subtle examples, such as: Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like what it is describing. I think a fight scene is a perfect time to introduce onomatopoeia into your narrative. You’ll describe exactly what the characters are seeing and what the reader should pay attention to in the scene. Think of how you can use these five descriptors in your writing to immediately transport the reader to the scene. This includes sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. One of the best ways to get visceral when describing a fight is to activate every sense possible. Fights should never go on for pages (unless you’re discussing an epic battle between armies, and not individuals). Introspection happens before and after a fight, not during.
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