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Peter Bowring

Hi M.L. :) Sulu is really cute but what I would like is some focus on your martial arts. Your combat scenes are fantastic and it's obvious that you have some experience, insight and possibly, some really good advisors. Could you (please) share some insight into martial arts from your perspective? Thanks! Greetings from Australia! :)

M. L. Wang

Hi Peter! Thanks for the comment. Due to the pandemic, it's now been years since I properly practiced martial arts (the things that are really fun about it are just not possible without another person breathing at you). I honestly feel shakier about my action scene writing all the time as I'm farther and farther removed from the physical experience of fighting a person. However, back when The Sword of Kaigen had its own little blog tour in the Before Times, I wrote this craft post on action scenes: https://mlwangbooks.com/2019/11/20/writing-fighting-action-as-character-conversation-guest-post-sample/ My brain was in a much martial artsier space at the time (I had just recently stopped working full-time at my old dojang and was still fighting tournaments). If you have any follow-up questions to that, I'll happily try to answer them.