I guess you could say battle scenes are my specialty, i've got a lot posted around here in my older stories. While a mess of grammatical errors I was always pretty proud of them as I sought to build my skill.

It's hard to explain how to write a good battle scene. What I always tried to do was close my eyes an envision the scene i wanted to portray from a top down view. Once I saw the motions in my head, I started putting pen to paper (or fingers to keys in this case), battles are actually very easy to write once you get over the initial hump of "how to describe this".

Writing about and describing the battle are two different things, however. You need details if your battle scene is gonna garner attention, lots of juicy details. I always found that throwing in metaphors was a great way to liven up combat. First, envision what you want to say, then look for ways to spice it up. Thesauruses are your best friend in this regard. The odd metaphor doesn't hurt either. Words like "torrent" "whirlwind" "storm", while all having literal meanings can take on poetic imagery when used to describe a warrior's movements in battle.


Oh and music. Really good music can work wonders in writing a fight scene, just don't get too focused on the lyrics. Instrumentals are probably the best.

Hope that helps a little.