The Young Siward fight from Macbeth in the style of John Scalzi. Scalzi is one of my favorite living authors. His style is heavy on dialog and tends toward comedy (which I’m obviously going for here) but also features tremendous emotional depth, especially in his empathy for peripheral characters. I’m doing him a disservice in […]
The Young Siward fight from Macbeth in the style of Mark Twain. [1] I asked him his name, and he said, “Thou’lt be afraid to hear it.” Well I didn’t put much stock in that. I can’t think of a time I ever met a man and was afraid to hear his name. I wondered […]
Long, long ago, I took a stage combat workshop where we had to choreograph a fight scene but were limited to a single move (for contrast, a typical stage fight might be 10-20 moves long). [1] What could we do to make one move interesting? Eventually we realized that we’d have to focus on the […]
Love, Blood & Rhetoric 