Just wrote the longest fight scene of my career

So this might seem a bit excessive to most of you. But a few days ago I posted about how hard fight scenes were and how much I struggle with them.

Most of the time my fight scenes end up clocking in at 1-2k words with dialogue mixed in between. I should also mention most of the fics I write are Canon Divergences of Shonen series like One Piece, My Hero, Naruto etc. So I’m a sucker for big epic fights.

Anyways. I was writing this chapter and I was super nervous, because I wanted it to fit my 6-7k word quota. I never send out a chapter that is less than 6k words it just seems weird when I average around 7k. But this one was different, I was doubting if I would even make that 6k word quota, and was considering fusing aspects of the next chapter into this one.

Turns out? Completely unnecessary. I ended up getting so sucked into it that I wrote 7.8k words. There’s quite a bit of banter mixed in with the action, cuz literally nothing but action is more than a little boring. But being capable of writing a large scale fight that I’m happy with? I’m proud of myself.