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While Action is not a magic bullet as the reader actually has to take what is presented, think about it and apply it, the book is a good resource. It presents another way of looking at action scenes just as "Writing Fight Scenes" or "Fight" present different ways of looking at action scenes. I found the movie way of looking at an action scene useful as it can be applied to about any kind of weapon, hand to hand, brawl or battle scene. Writing action scenes is much easier if the author has some experience in the type of scene they are writing of course. But that said, there are lots of resources to help with getting that knowledge such as combat vets if you are their friend, weapons experts, martial arts experts and tons of youtube videos to watch.
Breaking down action into a scene, engagement, sequence provides a helpful approach to the action. The author provides some good exercises to help with these concepts if the reader actually does them. Pacing is the flow of the action during a scene. It is what gives life to the action. The description of Pacing was applied to different types of scenes. But the Pacing section could have had more illustrative content.
One consistent suggestion in this book was to analyze action scenes in your favorite movies. IMHO the Bourne Series has some great close combat scenes to analyze.
Overall I would recommend "Action" as a useful tool in the author tool box along with some other approaches to writing these types of scenes.
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