User blog comment:CookieKid247/Tips on Writing Fight Scenes?/@comment-5869016-20130622093702

Add humour to it and describe the abilities used.

Before writing a fight scene you should consider the following

1) Personality - the personality of the character can drastically affect his combat ability in certain situations, or even impair it. For example, if Vegeta's pride is mocked, his personality makes him more prone to making mistakes. Similarly, if his pride is shattered, it would affect his strength and make him fight more sloppily, or even run away.

2) Skill - Try to have each character fight according to his own personal skillset. Sure most characters use Ki Blasts, but sometimes strategy wins the fight. I know this seems redundant but between 2 equally powerful people, sometimes a well-placed attack is enough to tip the scales. Use this to tilt the battle in the protagonist/antagonist's favour, creating plot twists if needed.

3) Humour - Sometimes, humour is what separates the best fight scenes from the normal ones. However, do not put too much humour or it will seem less serious than it actually is!

4) Creativity - Try to include your own creative aspects in the fighting scenes! Though it may not seem much, I find it highly tiresome and bothersome to read stories with simple skillsets and not much variety to skills in it. Rather than the simple "Bigger Blast = Bigger Boom", try to have your characters duke it out in unique ways, and have them affect/use the environment. After all, what are epic battles if the environment is not one bit affected?

5) Stakes - I know this should hardly be mentioned, but try to have something important for either person at stake in the battle, such as food or lives, something important for the protagonist.

All-in-all, balance out your fight scenes and don't be afraid to go wild! Especially if the stakes are high! Of course, take D-Disk's advice as well, though he is too plot-oriented for my taste