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Namely the bad, annoying, and eye-rolling cliches to avoid, but also knowing the trends that are fairly common but nobody seems to mind, or are perfectly fine with.

The story I'm thinking of is called "Journey of Accluciid". Many centuries into the future, humanity has discovered how to traverse the void between galaxies and is sending ships to start exploring and colonizing distant galaxies. The protagonist and his crew are sent to the Accluciid Galaxy, which is believed to be the largest galaxy ever discovered at the time, and the most mysterious.

Next to nothing is known about this distant galaxy, but it's more than 10,000 times the size of the Milky Way. The protagonist and his team volunteer for a dangerous adventure to begin mapping the galaxy and sending data back to the Milky Way. However, very little of the Accluciid is known, so every jump to a new star system is a risk that could end their lives.

In short, this would be a Sci-Fi that focuses SPECIFICALLY on discovery and exploration and doesn't follow the story of a military faction. Star Wars being a good example of this.

You know the slug that nearly eats Han, Chewie, Leia, and C-3PO in "The Empire Strikes Back"? This novel has one or more characters who would be wanting to study it and learn more about it. However, that's not to say they won't run into issues involving military powers in the story.

I have a life outside of Webnovel. I don't make enough money from this site to sit down and write 8 hours a day. I get burnt out sometimes, and if nobody's reading, then what's the point in me writing?

I need breaks every so often to either refresh myself or plan out the next few chapters. We're not machines who sit in front of our computers all day and have nothing else to do.

Not really a comedy, but everyone who reads my book ends up laughing out loud at the comedy in my novel, which happens on a fairly regular basis.

https://www.webnovel.com/book/mages-of-the-north-the-adventure-begins_17791057805925605

MinxMean Ah. I didn't know such stories existed.

What do you mean by level up?

My work is heavily inspired by Naruto, so you might be interested in checking it out: https://www.webnovel.com/book/mages-of-the-north-the-adventure-begins_17791057805925605

If you're interested, I can also give you my old Fanfiction account link. I don't use it anymore, but I have a few stories.

A friend gave me the name "Reaper's Judgment" so I think I'll be going with that one. I don't think that name can be topped lol

The class of ship is a 17-18th century "Second Ship Of The Line"

The main thing to note here is that this is a fantasy novel with the story taking place in a land called Fiorra. So try to avoid using real names and titles such as "USS" or "HMS"

shadowdrake27 Interesting. It's difficult to write a fighting scene in a novel, especially whenever you've never actually read one that focused specifically on action - more specifically on hand-to-hand combat or swordplay.

Here's an example of a fight I had written towards the end of volume 1 of my novel:

Floris had been hiding his knives out of view as he ran and opened his first attack by throwing one of his knives at Flare at almost point-blank range. Flare's eyes widened a little, and he dodged the knife before it hit its intended target - his heart. The knife went past him and landed in the dirt behind him, but Floris was still closing in. He tossed the knife in his left hand to his right and aggressively started slicing and cutting at Flare with every intention to either kill him or severely wound him.

Flare dodged and blocked Floris' attacks with ease, but played with him to see what he could actually do. He blocked every attack sent his way, blocking Floris' wrists with the palms or backs of his hands, and even catching the knife between his fingers. However, Floris had managed to move Flare to a position where he could roll off to the side and grab his second knife he threw earlier.

Flare's eyes widened again, knowing full well that both knives were poisoned. He had done his research on his students and knew just how deadly even the slightest scratch from one of Floris' poisons could be. There was now some seriousness to the fight, but he couldn't help but be impressed by what he was seeing. He remained silent as he continued to block and dodge Floris' attacks, keeping a close eye on Alvis and Kathrina to see what they were doing.

Kathrina's magic was definitely helping, and Floris was starting to adapt to it fairly quickly. He spun around to his right, then quickly changed direction to his left, aiming his knife at Flare's gut.

Flare dodged it, but Floris quickly flipped in the air and nearly nailed Flare in the face with a sideways kick.

Flare barely managed to dodge Floris' kick and was amazed by what he had seen. Floris had no combat experience and certainly no martial arts training or experience with magic, but his natural ability to adapt to situations had already kicked in. He had already learned how to balance himself with Kathrina's magic, signifying the potential for extremely good teamwork down the line. However, he could also see Floris was already starting to tire from the fight, giving him an opening.

As Floris went in for another attack, Flare grabbed his wrist and held him in the air. He then punched him multiple times in the stomach and chest and slung him through the air over to Kathrina. Floris landed on Kathrina, knocking her off her feet, incapacitating her and canceling her spell.

Floris glared at Flare with anger in his eyes and tried to stand back up to continue the fight, but too much damage had already been done to his body. Now that Kathrina's spell had worn off, he was feeling the stress that he had put on himself rendering him immobile. He lowered his head back down to the ground and breathed heavily, trying to catch his breath.

Don't you only get paid $0.01per 100 words? 7,000 words would only be like seven dollars or so.

Immovable087 Must be nice.

I win! For now

For me, I picture important scenes later on in the story while I'm listening to music and try to picture my characters at their climax.

RJMidnight Okay, that's actually a very clever idea. How the heck did I not think of doing that?! I'll definitely start using that method from now on.

That being said, I'd still like to get an answer from someone who writes fighting scenes really, really well.

LinYang See, that's exactly what I try to do, but it ends up being weirdly written when I go back to read over it.

This is probably one of the most difficult things I struggle with when it comes to writing. I can imagine everything in my head, but explaining how it all goes and making it seem fast-paced is tricky, if not extremely difficult from time-to-time.

Anybody willing to give me some tips?

The novel I'm writing centers around using magic but also has fast-paced hand-to-hand combat, as well as 18th-century warfare.

Krizantem You avoid the migraine later on.

The ability to never get intoxicated, but alcohol tastes and smells like puppy poo

The ability to fly, but you get severe diarrhea

Not sure how you feel about fantasy, but you can try reading mine.

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