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How to write great action. Number 1, give the reader the moment in the order it actually happens. We greatly underestimate how quickly readers process what is happening on the page. So if you write, she hit him with the bat, the reader first pictures her hitting him with her fist. And then when the reader sees with the bat, they have to go back in time in their head and rebuild what actually happened. It should read, she swung the bat at him. Number 2, show the action only and not the result of the action. Just have her swing the bat and then have the protagonist jump back or react to being hit. Just write, she swung the bat, and then show the bat connecting with him and then what he does next. Number 3, cut everything that the camera can't see. Action works the best when it is pure showing, so cut anything that a camera with a microphone can't pick up. For more writing tips, subscribe below.