Addendum

That aside, the future will almost certainly have either trains or the apocalypse. Possibly both.

Science Fiction Logistics Considerations

When considering whether your setting's transportation has developed to such a level that there are no longer surface trains, remember that people can grab on to the sides and shoot bandits or else have tense fights on the top.

Addendum

The conventional method is to have uninvolved characters comment on how exciting the action is, but I'm not sure that does anything but pad. By "action sequence" we here mean "card duel" of course. Have you ever gone back and watched Yu-Gi-Oh? It's amazingly fast-paced till the ratings came in, and then began the age of milking.

Improving Action Sequences

Have you thought about imposing a clock? Fighting games and RTS do that all the time, and people keep playing those. Well, one of them.

Elaboration on the Current Literary Spirit

As established, right now is the action scene, but there's more to any story than just one thing. For instance, feel free to fill your story with lots of love. Love of fighting strong opponents! Love of defending the weak! Love of plunder! Romance is fine, too. The romance of the sword.

More Action

You were going to write about your setting's equivalent of the Magna Carta? Now it's the Fragna Carta. The stars are in some sort of alignment, an action alignment. For three months. After that, make everything all weepy.

All-Out Galaxy Battle Tempest! Begins!

Speaking of AI-written galactic battle tournaments, let's all vote to affect what happens next, maybe. This is our last chance to enjoy democracy before the robots take over, and always remember that the best revenge is to make your enemy write a silly story.

The all-powerful supercomputer Centralizer has decreed a tournament among the galaxy's most skilled champions, but what happens will be decided not by weapon or technique, but by a bunch of AIs responding to reader votes. Vote today, before AIs kill us all!

The Freshest Genre Classification

There are three types of stories:
1) Opponents talk to each other before the fight
B) Opponents talk to each other during the fight
Gamma) Opponents don't talk to each other

As for stories without fights, they simply aren't worth categorizing or reading.

Addendum

A C thug is worth one battle clue, R 2, SR 4, and SSR 7. So get your wallets out, fellas.

How Do We Bridge the Gap Between Action and Mystery?

Battle clues. Figure out the rest on your own. I don't know why you want that bridge in the first place. Can't sit still for a mystery? Come on.

Addendum

Wheel of Time game number two: Dynasty Warriors. That is all. Thank you.

Protagonist Power Level

Many people will tell you your protagonist needs to slapped around for 80% of the story, if not 100%. Those people don't want you to succeed. One to three times is sufficient. Just look at James Bond. Or Cobra. Or Indiana Jones. Or any kung fu hero who has to train after getting beat up.

Ultimate Bond Pitch

To meet the latest threat, James Bond, the world's greatest superagent, must team up with . . . himself? This fall, prepare, for action, suspense, and thrills like you've never seen them before. James Bond. Jimmy Bond. Together for the first time. In The Valiant Die Once.

The Latest Videogame News

You know, I played Front Mission Evolved, and I can't call it great. Stay posted for more news.

Widespread Applications

Action? Mystery? Romantic comedy? They could all use glowing weak spots. They communicate information in an efficient fashion convenient to the writer. Shoot the boss in the glowing weak spot. How did the murderer know about the victim's weak spot? A girl accidentally strikes a fella's weak spot, she helps him recover, they fall in love.

To Elaborate

What you can tell is how much he likes Diablo.

Divided by Terminology

You can tell a lot about a person based on whether he thinks action-RPG means Diablo-clones or Tritorn-clones.

The Font of Creativity

The King of Elfland's Daughter? Why not the King of Elfland's Slaughter?