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| Howard and friend |
To examine writing fight scenes, Howard will start with generic
scene guidelines. Then Howard will talk about how trained fighters approach a
confrontation, what they think, and how they react. Engaging your readers in
fight scenes will be compared to engaging your readers in sex scenes. If you
can write one you can write the other. He’ll discuss what we can learn from
Bruce Lee and how to use the Shaolin Temple’s five animals in designing
altercations. You’ll read a fight scene as readers and then dissect it as
writers. Bring any questions you have about fight scenes. Someone will know the
answer.
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| Student Denise performing a "Getaway" on Howard |
Next
he will look at how training women for self-defense differs from training for
the martial arts, what a woman needs to know before an assault to help her
mentally and psychologically survive an attack, and how women can use
physiology and physics to “getaway.” Howard will touch on defense against a gun
and how women can use weapons to defend themselves. Then the discussion will
explain how writers can modify their manuscripts to actually help women’s
mental attitude about defense.
There
is still a lot of material. We’ll make it as far as we can.Howard Lewis
modestly says he knows a little about writing and a lot about the martial arts.
He studied Kung Fu for about 20 years and taught at the Central Piedmont
Community College in Charlotte for 10. The highest rank he holds is a
fifth-degree black sash, or master, in the Esoma System of Kung Fu. He’s a
certified instructor in Sil Lum Kung Fu, Esoma Kung Fu, Self Defense of Women,
and Tai Chi for Arthritis. He has taught Martial Arts for Writers as a lecture,
a hands-on class for the Writers’ Police Academy, and as an online course for
the Kiss of Death Chapter of the Romance Writers of America.
Howard
holds a fifth-degree black sash, or master,
in the
Esoma System of Kung Fu.
MEETING DETAILS
Our
monthly meeting will take place on Thursday, February 7th, at The Runway Café,
21 Airport Rd, Greenville, SC. Be there
at 6:15 p.m. to meet Howard Lewis and enjoy chapter fellowship. Supper should
be served at 6:30. Our speakers will begin after new and old business at about
7 p.m. Both dinner and the meeting are open to the public.
Please
e-mail your dinner and drink order before noon on Thursday to Ellis Vidler
(click on link).This speeds service and helps us plan. The link for our special
menu is located on the right-hand column listing.
If
you place an order and do not attend or fail to cancel by noon, you will be
charged for the meal. And like always, we'll enjoy it. Look forward to seeing
you.
JOIN US FOR COMING
EVENTS
March
7—Debra Goldstein, judge, litigator, and author of the Sarah Blair mysteries
April 4--Parks Evans, Greenville County Coroner
May 2--Author A.J. Hartley, who blurs the lines between scifi and thriller
June 6--Jacki Molnar, law enforcement officer with broad range of experience
April 4--Parks Evans, Greenville County Coroner
May 2--Author A.J. Hartley, who blurs the lines between scifi and thriller
June 6--Jacki Molnar, law enforcement officer with broad range of experience
