Fight! Fight! Fight! Excerpt from Ocean of Dust – Graeme Ing, Author

Fight! Fight! Fight! Excerpt from Ocean of Dust

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That scene required help from my writing group to get right. Not being a girl (duh!), I didn't know how they fought. In my original draft  I had them punching each other and all sorts of things. The women in my writing group (bless them!) explained to me “that isn't how it works”. Apparently girls go in for hair pulling and hair dragging. Who knew? So hopefully you female readers are now nodding your heads in agreement in that fight, perhaps remembering your own school days?

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How dirty did you used to play in your fights as a kid? Please leave a comment below. Maybe I can feature your signature move in a future book. That would be fun. 🙂

 

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Victoria Limbert says March 1, 2013

Um, well….It wasn’t my fault I assure you.

My brother knows that if I am tickled I can’t breathe and I panick, but it also happened to be his way of winning a play fight when we were children.

again, before I say what happened..it wasn’t my fault 😛

He was bugging me and bugging me until he took it one step too far and started tickling me. I immediately dropped to the floor and tried to get away from him, kicking backwards as I did so. My foot connected quite nastily with his face (not my fault) and he ended up in tears, I believe there may have been a bruise. I am sure he showed it off to his friends and told them he got in a fight with a huge group of bullies and he single-handedly took them down or something.

So yeah, not my fault right??? haha

With my much older brother, I used to attach myself to his leg while biting his ankle and leaving perfect teeth marks. Strangely this made him laugh… :/

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    Graeme Ing says March 1, 2013

    Ha, ha ha. Too funny. As a kid, I once knocked my sister out with the TV remote. She wound me up so much that I got angry and threw the remote at her. I didn’t expect to be such a marksman that it hit her between the eyes and knocked her out. Oops. Sorry, Sis.

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Gwen Gardner says March 1, 2013

No girl fighting for me. I was taught to fight like a boy and how to him ’em where it hurts. Of course, I wouldn’t have been above some hair pulling, either 🙂

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    victoria limbert says March 2, 2013

    Graeme!!! Oh my haha! Sibling fights are the bees knees to be honest. Always up for a slap fight with my sister. By the way slaps hit worse than any punch haha! they sting sooo badly!

    One of the things I hate about girl fights is that they are dirty, hair pulling is just the start. They rip clothes, scratch faces and bite. OOOOWWCCCHH.

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    Graeme Ing says March 2, 2013

    Ouch! Remind me not to get into an argument with you, Gwen 🙂

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Graeme Ing says March 2, 2013

Oh, and Vicky, thanks for the extra tips. I didn’t have any scratching and biting. Next time, next time!

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Victoria Limbert says March 2, 2013

Its all fun and games until someone loses a fake nail 🙁

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