Her purse and shopping bag hit the ground. The bush at the front of her car scraped the headlights and a man’s voice sang, “Jolene, Jolene, Joleeeeeeeene.” She smiled down at the raccoon peeking out of her purse then turned her head toward a noise. She walked to her car whispering to the raccoon that chirped at her from her purse. Jolene walked out of the Dollar General just a few minutes before it closed. For the basic structure of my fight scene, I will still add in notes about evidence and what will happen later so I have a sense of direction as I do rewrites. It doesn’t have to look like the final product.
Again, this basic structure is simply a rough draft. If that is the case, you have the elements of a basic structure.
Sometimes you have a pretty good idea of how you want the fight scene to go. I wasn’t throwing away ideas and I also wasn’t stopping the process. That allowed me to keep the momentum in my writing. Also, you can see that I wasn’t sure about how to obscure the assailant’s face and put down several options. Notice that I didn’t put anything about the actual fight in this placeholder. Also, I can document search “EVIDENCE” at any point as I write if I forget what evidence I need to include. I have the injury noted and made sure to put evidence in its own section because that is information that can impact the rest of the story. I put all the info in list form simply because my brain loves lists. Imprint of Harrah’s Casino coin on Jolene’s cheek Jolene attacked, knocked out, black eye, broken orbital boneĪttacker wearing black Dolly Parton hoodie, blond wig and baby Yoda mask? Lots of makeup? Glittery ski mask? SpongeBob mask? This is a bit of a murder mystery MS tentatively called Night of the NaNoWriMo 9 to 5 Killer: Don’t Do It Dolly! A placeholder fight scene might look like what I have below.
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