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STAR WARS WRITING RESOURCES

PLEASE REBLOG AND ADD ANY OTHERS YOU MIGHT KNOW OF <3 <3

WOOKIEEPEDIA. The source of anything and everything you want to know related to Star Wars. Good for fact-checking, character history, or simply killing time. There is also, of course, the official Star Wars Databank! STAR WARS GALAXY MAP. A fantastic project that maps the Star Wars galaxy as we know it. Consider donating ( if you can! ) to help keep the site up and running! Also check out W.R. van Hage’s map and the Star Wars Atlas Online Companion. TIMELINE. While hosted on Wookieepedia, this is nevertheless deserving of its own bullet point. This page provides an approximate timeline with dates of all canon material. You can also filter items, so that it displays only TV episodes, for example, or only books, or only movies! Find the Legends timeline here. STAR WARS SLANG AND PHRASES. A collection I’ve been keeping of phases, slang, idioms, insults, and more from the Star Wars universe. This also contains a glossary of frequently used terms, such as “refresher” in place of “restroom”. Please feel free to use/share! 

STAR WARS NAME GENERATOR. This is a fun one AND a life saver. You can generate up to 100 Star Wars-sounding names ( first and last! ) with a click. 

OTHER GENERATORS: 

Spaceship names as well as spaceship type/models

Earth-like alien planets for any alien planet you don’t have info on

Random landscapes, see above

Technobabble generator for when you need a reason for a red alert

Alien plant/herb/flower name generator. Also: mineral/metal/gemstone names, material names, medication names, and descriptions of alien substances

Scifi tool names for gadgets and gizmos

OTHER WEBSITES:

Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions, Dirk Loechel’s Sci-fi Spaceship Size Comparisons, and other Star Wars Deckplans

Star Wars Post 

Star Wars News Net

TheForce.net

[motherofclones]

Here you go writers:D

[texasdreamer01]

The Complete Wermo’s Guide - A fan guide to some of the languages in Star Wars. Articles and accessory pages feature links to source material and further reading.

Erik Stormtrooper’s Imperial Gallery - A fansite the features fonts for Star Wars languages, as well as information on Star Wars toys.

Mando’a Database - The official website for Mando’a, by author Karen Traviss. Features a dictionary, phrase list, and forum.

Star Wars Fan Database - This link goes specifically to the PDF of all original scripts for Episodes I-VI. Includes deleted scenes. Website contains themed games, and encyclopedia, drawing references, and IRL news relating to Star Wars.

Star Wars Helmets - Link goes directly to the recommended sites page, but the site features information about helmets found in Star Wars as well as related information.

[meandmyechoes]

Hyperspace Travel Time Calculator

Coruscant Translator - translate from Basic

Materials Glossary - fabrics, plastic, metal etc.

Star Wars Food

Species Anatomy - my tag for speculation, meta and headcanons for various aliens

Canon Characters Age Chart by @stairset

(expanded version)

[comet-cola]

Every cishet person I've seen talking about Luca: "It was a fun time, but not one of pixar's best, y'know? It was missing that usual magic."

Every queer person I've seen talking about Luca: "THESE BITCHES GAY, GOOD FOR THEM-" *cue violent sobbing*

[aye-write]

[veliseraptor]

i love reading old fic of mine and being like “hey this is pretty good” but also i hate reading old fic of mine and being like “why can’t you do this anymore huh”

[writeouswriter]

Really in love with this new original character of mine, wish I knew his name

[caddy-whump-us]

Y’know, normally I’m kind of cynical when people are like “Yeah, sometimes my characters just seem to do things on their own.” And I’m like “ha ha, okay,” but I’m skeptical.

Except I swear the scumbag who’s helping to disappear Nick just rolled up to the hospital with drugged, bleeding Nick in the backseat of his car and the doctor is like “What’s his name?”

“Uh, Nicholas.”

“What’s his last name?”

“Fuck, I don’t know. Cage.”

And the doctor and I are just looking at the scumbag like did u just? 

[redwingedwhump]

THEY DO THIS STUPID CRAP ON THEIR OWN AND THEN EXPECT ME TO TAKE BLAME like I am sorry you’re a dumpster fire Sir but you arrived in my imagination like that and I can’t help you. _writermoods

[headspace-hotel]

what people think is hard about writing: describing the joy, love, beauty, grief, loss and hope that form the richness of human experience

what is actually hard about writing: describing basic actions such as turning, leaning over, reclining, gesturing, saying something in a quiet voice, breathing, getting up from chairs, and walking across rooms

[raigash]

Me trying to write this woman WAKING UP WHY IS IT SO HARD

[toboldlywrite]

Me to me: you know you don’t have to have a tragic backstory reason for every one of your character’s quirks/preferences.

Also me:

[wheeloffortune-design]

How to write a novel

I was talking to a girl at ComicCon, the kind of person who has a million creative projects at the same time. As many people do, she has a story she wants to write, with amazing characters she wants to share with the world, but writing is hard and a first novel can be daunting. Here’s what I told her.

Now, this applies to the people who REALLY want to see their story done. These are the main pillars of the cathedral that is your story. Let’s begin.

1- YOUR GOAL IS TO WRITE A COMPLETE FIRST DRAFT. It will be shit. But it will be complete. You can build on it and rewrite, but the most important thing is to WRITE TILL THE END OF THE STORY.

2- SIT DOWN AND WORK. That’s the difference between writers and the million people who say they have a story that they’ll write someday.

Alright, let’s get technical, and start by the end. 

3- Art is about causing your public to have emotions. Decide right now what emotion you want to leave your readers with when they close your book. Is it happy, sad, bittersweet, hopeful? Pick one. (This can be changed later if you rewrite and find some other ending, but we are working on the first draft.)

— Maybe you have a nice gimmick, a cool idea for a story, like idk, ‘What if you cloned yourself and that clone took over your life’. This is interesting, but it’s not a story in itself. A story needs emotions. If you don’t pick the emotions you want your reader to feel, your idea is just a gimmick. 

4- Now that you have the final emotion, decide your ending in accordance to said emotion. Are characters dying? Is the bad guy defeated? Is everyone splitting up or leaving together as a found family? 

Then we go back to the beginning.

5- You probably have a million characters you all want to write. Pick one to be your protagonist. Yes, just one. Multi-characters stories are harder to write and demand experience and time. We want this novel to exist, and not be stuck in limbo forever. Anyway, people tend to always prefer side characters. Who has heard of someone having a protagonist as a fave?? Your side characters will be loved, no worry. 

How to find your protagonist: It’s the person who makes decisions and makes the plot advance. Simple as that. Not to be mistaken for the leader of a group.  

6- Now that you have your protagonist, you decide what is normal for them. That is your beginning. 

7- And then, you break that normality in some horrible way that will prevent your protagonist to come back to it. That is your inciting incident. 

Then we write the middle

8- You google Three-Act-Structure and get one of these babies. 

(But Talhí, I hear you say, why should I follow this? It’s been overdone, and my story doesn’t follow this, and I have more to write than this… Well, that’s your choice. I’m not the boss of you. I’m just saying that this is a solid model for western storytelling and it’s been proven to work time and time again. You can create outside of this, but again, the main goal here is to get your novel on paper. This is a solid template.)

9- You probably have a general idea of events you want to happen in the story. Place these scenes where you feel they should go on the structure. Like, a confrontation with the main bad guy goes in climax of act three, and the confrontation with the main henchman goes to climax of act two, etc. Be mindful of the rising action and tension: a cute misadventure in the woods would probably go earlier in the story than a fight to the death.

10- Now, a secret: What separates bad writing from good writing? Bad writing is adding a bunch of events in the middle and have the characters go through them like a checklist of scenes. You can often see this in movies. But good writing links the events. Each and every event that happens has to be a result of your character making a decision. Then, an obstacle happens, and your character makes another decision, that leads to your next event/obstacle. 

11- Another secret: A character will gain power, money, weapons and allies through the story. In videogames, this is useful to defeat the bad guy. But storytelling is not videogames. Having a superpowerful hero at the end is boring. What we want is keeping the reader in suspense. So you’ll have to take everything from them. Leave them powerless and alone. And then, break their leg. I mean, not literally, although you can do that too, but have them super disadvantaged. And then they can use the personal growth they got in the adventure to prevail. (What is more interesting: a character fleeing from a facility but with weapons and kickass moves, or a character fleeing the same facility without weapons or shoes and with a broken arm? Who do you root for?)

Other tricks

The rest of the crew: I go with what Pixar does for characters: Main character gets three or more characteristics. That’s your Woody. Second tier character gets two characteristics. That’s your Buzz. Third tier characters get one characteristic, like Rex and Mister Potato Head. Keep control of your character tiers and never give too much time to the lower tiers ones, it doesn’t help your story.  

Herd your cats: Characters will want to wander in every direction, and you’ll want to follow them. Keep them in groups, and even though you can follow a side character for a scene or two, focus 80 to 90% of your story on your protagonist. 

DND is not a novel: I’m pretty sure your campaign is super fun, but you can’t just put it on paper and call it a novel. It needs a narrative arc and serious editing. You can use a campaign as a base, but it needs to be worked as a novel, because you’re changing mediums, and a novel has different requirements. 

That’s pretty much what I can remember for now. This should help you with the bones of your novel, and you can add the meat on that. I hope it helps. But honestly, the best advice I can give you is 

SIT DOWN AND DO THE THING. 

[thoughts-ofawriter]

sometimes I look at my WIP and I’m like “oh my god, I wrote that!” and other times I look at my WIP and I’m like “oh my god I wrote that?”

[cremeboulet-deactivated20181217]

Filmmaker brain can paint a picture in my head but writer brain can’t articulate it

[sassy-un-classy-blog]

YES

[write-on-world]

[rivalwrites]

[writeouswriter]

2 of my writing projects actually fitting together into 1 for once? It’s more likely than you think

[writeouswriter]

Me, two days later:

[promptdumpster]

me: alright, I have all major plot points planned out until arc 2, but what happens on arc 3? how do I finish the story?

my inspiration:

[writtenwolves]

Me: I want to write that WIP please.

My brain:

[lady-of-crowns]