That sounds great Liese, thanks!

Ok, I need to write a fight/struggle scene between an armed assailant who's not that impressive otherwise, but, you know, gun, and his victim whose main physical activity is, like, a weekly exercise class or something. Neither one of them have to fight like they're on Buffy, but I have no clue how to write about things like that...it's okay, better even, if it's a little sloppy, but physicality is always hard for me to write about. Anything I should keep in mind?

No clue here, but who do you want to win? Or do you want a draw? Cause I'll bet whoever gives you advice can also give you pointers so the fight realistically ends with the results you want? (Actually I do know one thing from Karate years ago. Overwhelmingly the odds are person with gun wins, but it can come out the other way. And if the guy with the gun does not know what they are doing, I'll bet there are mistakes you can have them make that let the unarmed person win the fight.)

It depends on so many factors. There is the fact that people with guns often assume that pointing a gun will get them what they want, so they're not prepared for someone to fight back. A strategy for the unarmed person is to move in close and go for a knee.

I'd try to find some movie clips on You Tube or something where this happens and just watch them over and over again to help visualize how it could work. It may not be realistic, but it'll probably read well. Then try to highlight the emotions of the characters during the fight. Fear, anger, frustration, all that good stuff.

Ooof. 4,778 words written in about under 10 hours total. Someone remind me that one of these days, I should stop waiting until the last minute to write these things for Steampunk Tales. Now to wait for feedback from my awesome beta readers.

That's an impressive rate.

I have some corrections to do still with 28 and 29. My wife looked at 30 and didn't like it, so I redid some of it. Chapter 30 is getting pretty small so I expect I'll roll it into 29. The ending of 29 isn't all that spectacular, so folding in 30 will be good for it. The end of 30 is probably the best chapter ending in the book.

Drabble topic: Bite.

I've finished up 28 and 29, for now at least. I rolled 30 into 29, so I'm on to 31. I think that will be slow going. That part of the rough draft is especially inadequate.

30 is also a bit challenging because it's from the POV of a character who is absentminded normally and currently suffering from a huge shock, so he's not going to be doing a lot of observing of what is happening around him.

Very little progress last night due to needing to do other things. I won't get a chance to work on it tonight either. Hopefully I'll start rocking chapter 30 (I rolled 30 into 29, so 30 is the new 31) tomorrow night.

I'm not sure I'm off to a good start on the chapter, but we'll see. I'll be better than the rough draft, that's for sure. There's also a scene in 31 I'm not sure about, feedback will be important in deciding if it should stay in or not.