Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, continuing Part 3 of the book: Other Beats. This one deals with:

Fights

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Fights. The staple in many a genre. Where would be without them? Here are a few words that may prove useful when describing a fight:

• He crushed his opponent.
• He crashed against the floor.
• She hurled the stone at him.
• He pinned her to the ground.
• He pummeled the shield.
• She splintered the wood.
• She plunged at him.
• She swerved his sword.
• He catapulted at her.
• He wrenched the knife from her hand.
• He was already hurtling toward them.
• He lunged at her, wielding a huge axe.
• He swung his axe.
• He flung his axe at her.
• He dashed /…

Some of you will have noticed KDP’s switch to a new interface:

The new dashboard offers several advantages over the old one. The tabbed browsing allows you to access historical data. It also breaks down royalties and sales by marketplace, author, title, and format.

The Real Change

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The real change, however, lies behind the scenes — and it’s not a good one: Amazon has now integrated script-blocking on the Reports page. I recently advocated using the free Book Report bookmarklet to make sense of Amazon’s insufficient data. Well, Book Report (and any similar tool, like John Logsdon’s ReaderLinks, currently in its beta stage) will no longer work on the Report page.

BookReport is currently getting around this by making a new version of their tool that works from you starting from the KDP Bookshelf page. This is a quick hack, but Liam is presumably working on…