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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Interesting that you said do not open with a fight scene. When I spoke with a traditional publisher about my fisrt book, they told me that the opposit, and I added a fight scene to the opening of my book based on thier advice. Its only a few pages long depending on the size of your e-reader.
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Well, I don't mean do not open with a fight scene, but don't open it with a mediocre one.
I love fight scenes. I grew up on shounen manga, sword and sorcery, and all that stuff. I love it when mooks get beat up in creative ways. There's entire books and comics where there's nothing going for it except for the fight scenes, and I still love them to death (growing up, Hellsing was one of my most favourite mangas. There's nothing going for it other than aesthetics and ridiculous fight scenes. It's amazing). But mediocre fight scenes in the beginning of the book? Pass. I just don't like getting thrown into dreary wars in the beginning of a book where there's nothing at stake for me yet. A fight scene in the beginning has to be either (1) creative (2) illuminates the central conflict (3) tells something about the main character. A fight scene alone does not make a scene exciting, especially when it takes itself too seriously without being clear as to why.