Ep. 174: How to Write Battle Scenes with Anna Smith Spark (Writing Masterclass)
SFF Addicts · Sep 30, 2025 · 1:16:15
SFF Addicts · Sep 30, 2025 · 1:16:15
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Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson, M.J. Kuhn and Greta Kelly as they delve into a writing masterclass on How to Write Battle Scenes with author Anna Smith Spark. During the episode, Anna arms herself for war (and writing), exploring why we love battle scenes, how to study and analyze historical battles, the immersion/cinematography of a battle, laying the seeds of conflict, approaches to warfare across cultures, setting and styles of battle, scale and shifting perspectives, realism and the aftermath of battle, heightening emotional resonance, war councils, expectations, foreshadowing and more.
NOTE: This is part two of a two-part chat with Anna. Click here to check out part one.
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Anna Smith Spark is the author of the Empires of Dust series, A Woman of the Sword and more. Her latest releases are A Sword of Gold and Ruin and Anderson Versus Death.
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Adrian M. Gibson is the author of Mushroom Blues.
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Greta Kelly is the author of The Queen of Days, The Frozen Crown and The Seventh Queen.
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