Violence: A Writer's Guide by Rory Miller

Author:Rory Miller [Miller, Rory]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Martial Arts, Writing, villains, military weapons, writing a mystery, police fiction, violence, writing a romance, heroes, military adventure novels
Published: 2010-12-03T07:00:00+00:00

Recap:

-Under extreme stress, hormones are pumped into your system

-These hormones affect your perception, cognition and motor skills

-You can become inured to specific stresses

Chapter 8: Unarmed

It’s a little artificial to break this up by unarmed, impact weapons, edged weapons, firearms and less-lethal, but I’m going to do it anyway. The actual mechanics and use have a lot of things in common. For instance, in most cases, aggression beats skill. A skilled knife player (say silat or arnis) usually chokes when confronted by a prison-yard-style shanking. A good shot tends to be killed by someone who charges blasting away. And blackbelts getting crushed by untrained streetfighters are almost a cliché.

It works the other way, of course. Aggression coupled with good skills and tactics makes an incredible foe. Add the clear predator mindset and it is more a force of nature than a human being. Mix timidity with bad skills (or, especially, bad skills with false confidence) and the person is almost more a danger to himself or bystanders than he is to the bad guy.

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