What better way to kick off season 3 then to talk about what Larry is best known for- writing action. This week hosts/Authors Steve Diamond and Larry Correia discuss how to best writer action and how to switch it up for maximum impact.
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This week’s episode is sponsored by Jonathan Schuerger’s Shades of Black I: In Darkness Cast
Gideon Halcyon wants nothing more than to save his people from the forces of Hell. Demons and cultists run roughshod over his home, slaughtering and sacrificing to a trifecta of fallen angels on the cusp of destroying the kingdoms of Man. Hope seems infantile in the face of extinction itself…
...until Gideon meets Ashkelon.
Coming from the Void beyond the world, Ashkelon alone survives the world he left in ruins. Cynical and ruthless, the dark sorcerer seethes with millennia of hatred, and his cursed sword Acherlith shrieks with the last screams of a thousand failed heroes.
Ashkelon makes Gideon an offer – to train him to be a hero of the Light beyond the failures sealed within his blade, a peerless warrior exceeding even the exacting standards of the Everlasting Dark. Reluctantly, Gideon accepts, and is thrust into a world of infinite cruelty under Ashkelon’s black fist where the slightest misstep will see him dead at the sorcerer’s hand.
Re: Pretty Princess Sparkly Murder spree
I suspect the trick is to have a character who would have the background and personality that they could see that as a reasonable response to the situation, and they have them then get stuck in the pretty princess role.
So instead of Buffy being an average highschooler who must now deal with vampires, she’s a trained vampire Hunter who just now deal with highschool boyfriends, and after class day jobs, because vampires are broke and you gotta eat something other than instant ramen…
Hyperviolent Sparkle Princess adventure is the diablo 3 pony level – I had someone who had never seen it before get totally shocked when they saw the level of violence and gore inflicted upon the different ponies. That being said, it was Diablo 3, so the promise of gorey violence was there.
“There’s time to feel later” – so, a few years ago, my oldest daughter almost drowned, because she took off her floatie and gave it to her cousin, because she was “done swimming.” I saw her in the water with her hair floating to the top – nobody had realized she got into the pool. I swam across the pool, got her out, checked her breathing, and only when I started grilling hamburgers afterwards (it was labor day or memorial day) did I even have the emotional reaction of how close my family came to tragedy. I don’t know that I had a thought during the time between seeing her in the water and getting her out, let alone feelings.