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Star Wars Writing Resources

Note: None of the resources below are mine. I just assembled them in one place for your and my convenience. Feel free to use and reblog. If you know of any other useful site missing from the list, let me know and I’ll gladly add it.

Places

Interactive Galaxy Map by Henry Bernberg

Map of the Galaxy

List of planets and moons [Wikipedia /needs expanding]

Planet Name Generator 1 [SciFi Ideas]

Planetary System Generator [Donjon]

Character Development

Star Wars Name Generator 1 [Donjon]

Star Wars OC flow chart by @thefoodwiththedood

Star Wars Name Generator 2 [FantasyNames]

Star Wars Name Generator 3 [FantasyNames]

The character creator

Droid Name Generator

Star Wars Randomizer

Clone Trooper face/helmet template pack by @maiseey

Clone Picrew by @batdad

Character Picrew [Twi-leks, Zabraks, Torgutas and Nautolans] @/megaramikaeli

Star Wars Character Templates by SmacksArt [the ULTIMATE battery of template for any human/humanoid original character in any era. From troopers to droids, from Jedi to Sith, from KOTOR to the sequel Trilogy. 100% RECOMMENDED]

Miscellaneous

Standard Calendar and Holidays [including month names!]

Galactic Standard Calendar [wookiepedia // including week day names]

Date converter according to SWTOR [Google sheet]

Hyperspace Travel Times (to calculate how much time would take to go from point A to point B within the GFFA)

Materials (fabrics, leathers, silks, plastics, construction, metal composites, etc.)

List of TCW Opening Quotes

Ship Generator 3D

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Republic Military Hierarchy Flowcharts by @cacodaemonia

Languages; Phrases and Slang; Vocabulary

Coruscant Translator (from/to Basic from/to Old Corellian, Proto-Basic, and Smuggler’s Cant; Catharese and High Cathar; Cheunh and Minnisiat; Echani and Thyrsian; Mirialan; Flora Colossi, Ortolan, and -everyone’s favorite- Mando'a)

In-Universe phrases and slang [Google sheet]

List of phrases and slang [wookiepedia]

List of equivalents to real-world objects [wookiepidia]

Star Wars Menu Generator

Helpful blogs

The amazing @maiseey, who not only makes astonishing art and write an amazing fic, she also responds to medical questions and gives all kinds of references for writing medic characters.

@writebetterstarwars, which seems to be inactive, but there are a bunch of references there.

@howtofightwrite The place to find out how to write a good fight scene.

@scriptmedic no longer active, but it has a great deal of useful information.

@scripttorture for your whump needs. Major trigger warning for all its content.

Writing in General (For those who don’t want to die like Stormtroopers)

SlickWrite: Completely free; online. Checks grammar, punctuation, flow, and writing style according to different settings (including fiction writing).

ProWritingAid: [RECOMMENDED] One of the most thorough online proofreader I’ve ever used. Although when using a free account gives extremely thorough feedback, it gives +20 different in-depth reports for only the first 500 words for free. However, you can earn a premium account license (for a year or for life) if you get 10 or 20 new users signing up for free; (if you wouldn’t mind doing so using the link above and help me earn mine, please). The settings allow you to check your writing according to your needs, from general to formal to creative. It has a bonus that you can check depending on the genre you’re writing. For example, in creative, you can choose romance or sci-fiction (there are 14 sub-genre in total). And they just add a new feature, which just like google docs, you can share a document, and people can view, comment or edit.

LanguageTool: [RECOMMENDED] Another excellent proofreader. It also has a word limit in free accounts, but if you use the add-on for Google Docs, it counts each page as a new document, so hitting the limit is nearly impossible. It helps you to rewrite a sentence, even if it doesn’t raise any flags; it’s very useful for when your sentence is grammatically correct, but it doesn’t feel quite right.

Grammarly, Hemingway Editor: No so great, but they do the basic job.

[ldrloversblog]

How about you shut up??? She doesn’t owe YOU ANYTHING!!!!

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[greengableslover]

KAMA SUTRA: A TALE OF LOVE (1996) dir. Mira Nair

[an-atlas-or-other]

Soccer players are the horses of men’s sports. They run around in fields for hours on end. They stub their toe and they die. They fall and they die. They run into each other and

[rebeccalouisaferguson]

REBECCA FERGUSON as Juliette Nichols in SILO Season 3 Episode 2 “It's All Good”

[visenyaism]

because Ormund Hightower getting in his teenage nephew’s face and coke ranting about the glory of the Hightower Reconquista that he has made up in his head that they are divinely ordained to accomplish to because of their special blood and no one understands but them IS exactly how Daemon was moving with fifteen year-old Rhaenyra in the first season of this show. kind of insane

[ondeadpeasantgirls]

the thing with my year of rest and relaxation is that the year is clearly framed as a bad thing. ending it with the revelation that narrator spent the last months of her one friend’s life in an drug induced semi/unconscious haze is a punch in the teeth. it shows wealth can enable depression and apathy to the point you’ve wasted something so incredibly important to you. seeing the book included in the soft feminine, gentle mental illness, female manipulator, thinspo aesthetic is really interesting. the message of the book is ‘get better’ not aspire to be this. i’m not judging, people have the right to feel engage with media however they want it’s just kind of odd to see it be held up in a way that is antithetical to the text.

[ondeadpeasantgirls]

”Claudia manipulated Louis and….”

Lestat was incredibly abusive. Someone, most likely Louis, was going to die in that house. She was more than justified in being as manipulative as possible to get Louis and herself tf out. Fans need to stop using Claudia or Louis doing something unethical as an excuse to be less critical of Lestat or have less empathy for Claudia and Louis.

[winepresswrath]

fantasy I personally want to get an Apple adaptation

1. The Silmarillion/legendarium. Is the Silm adaptable? No idea! Let's find out with a different creative team. I think Amazon technically only has the rights to the appendices and we had like three dueling Sherlocks in the 2010s this is so valid of me.

2. Lions of Al-Rassan or Tigana or both. Why not both? I cannot believe we've never gotten a GGK adaptation (it should not be fionavar tapestry. Sorry fionavar tapestry) but it's depressing. Also in LoAR the ot3 should fuck nasty one (1) time cheat on your perfect wife who is also your soulmate Rodrigo please for me.

3. The crystal caves. Love them badddd I would spend a lot more time with Morgana and Morgause. Honestly it would be so easy to make a terrible adaptation because these books live and die on atmosphere but I would like to see an attempt.

4. OK this one might be unadaptable for real and of course everyone should be aged up please don't @ me in three months saying I should be doxxed and publicly executed for this but Kushiel's Dart come on everyone who read it in high school and cried real tears over Phedre/Melisande knows I'm right and this could be so good.

[frownyalfred]

Words/phrases I often see from British/Australian writers while writing American characters (and some American alternatives because I know it’s tricky!):

Bugger (American: fuck/fucker)

Flat (American: apartment, “my place”)

Bloke (American: guy, asshole, dude)

Queue (American: line, checkout line)

Cuppa (American: cup of tea, hot tea)

Shite (American: bullshit, shit, crap)

Some of these are regional, like all of the various American words for the British “trolley” (American: shopping cart, buggy, cart, etc) but most of the above words are pretty ubiquitous.

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

Dropping the article from nouns (American: the/a hospital, the/a university)

Bin (maybe sommme Americans use it? But mostly trashcan, garbage)

Lift (American: elevator)

Arse (American: ass)

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

We have once again reached the lowered reading comprehension section of the replies. Friends! Please reread the above. There were no value judgements made above. You can continue to use inaccurate terminology for your characters if you choose.

What this is flagging is that the words you are using—in dialogue or narration from an American POV—don’t fit what we use here. and if that’s something that concerns you, or if you want your readers not to get hung up on (to steal an example from the comments) “Why is Midwesterner Dean Winchester talking about a torch??”, these are the words we actually use.

We know what you mean when you use your terminology. We’re saying your American characters would not use those words, so here are the alternatives should you choose to care.

[thatsastepladder]

The weird thing is that American English keeps that convention for some other location nouns. e.g., "I was at school" or "I went to college".

And while we're on the topic of "college" it should be noted that American English treats "college" and "university" as nearly synonymous, with "college" being by far the preferred term in everyday parlance.

Rarely, you'll see "college" used to refer to a 2-year school, otherwise referred to as "junior college" or "community college", while "university" is used to refer to a 4-year institution. But that distinction isn't common.

American English will generally use "college" where British English uses "university", although "university" is still a fairly common word in the language and you're not wrong for using it in place of "college".

You'll just sound super British in doing so.

[librarylexicon]

Or Australian, in my case, since we also say university (uni) like Brits. Good to know!

On a related note, I looked at one of my drafts and I saw that I wrote that a character scraped the soggy remains of his cereal into the (kitchen) 'bin', so I changed it to 'trash'. Just wondering, is there a difference between 'trash' and 'trashcan' in this context, or are they exactly interchangeable? And could you say 'garbage' (or 'garbage can') too?

[maychorian]

I would say that trash, trash can, garbage, and garbage can are all equally common and essentially mean the same thing.

[librarylexicon]

Neat, thanks! I had a moment of wondering if adding 'can' meant it had to be one of those robust outside bins instead of a dinky one under the sink. Lol

[maychorian]

Nope, you're good! I grew up in the Midwest, and people generally say garbage or garbage can to mean the big ones that go out to the curb, but we also use those for little ones inside. I generally only hear trash and trash cans for the little ones inside, though. I've never even thought about that distinction, lol. You could probably use trash or trash can to mean the big ones outside as well and I don't think anyone would blink.

Garbage bin generally means a dumpster, though, I think.

[heywriters]

I really like the use of "mate" in UK/AU dialect because it always sounds so friendly and approachable. In American English however, it cannot fully be separated from the sexual meaning. Loving (gender neutral) epithets for friends in the US are widely varied—pal, bud, bro, dude, man, girl, homie, coz, my guy, etc.—but "mate" is probably best used by an American to their UK/AU friend only.

The other use of "mate" as a way to talk down to a stranger who you may be about to fight is best replaced with "buddy" in the US.

"Watch it, buddy!" or "You sure about that, bud?"

I know people irl who are immediately offended by even passive use of "bud/buddy." Regionally or generationally, dude, bro, and pal may also be used to start a fight. In this same context I hear "man" used most often to diffuse situations. "Look, man, I'm sorry, okay?" and "Hey, man, calm down."

(Quick note for Americans: dude, bro(ther), my man, guy, and a few other terms were common among the boomer generation, so some older folks continue to use them happily).

[ondeadpeasantgirls]

Claudia and Louis are what happens when a kid grows up with an abusive parent and an abused as well as enabling parent. It makes sense Claudia resents and hates Louis even while she loves him. Like I’m glad y’all have never seen a similar family dynamics but think people for God’s sake. And yes I think the showrunners were being racist. What they had Claudia say is imo part of a broader pattern of racism that’s increasingly obvious this season (this is also a critique applicable to fandom, Lestat continues to be awful yet is coddled because he’s white, attractive and charismatic)

[sepofa]

claudia always hated louis which is why she came back home after seeing grace abandoning him. claudia always hated louis whis is why she spent years with him helping him recover after lestat dropped him from the sky. claudia always hated louis which is why she tried to stop lestat from coming back in their home. claudia always hated louis which is why she worried about his happiness in paris. claudia always hated louis which is why she came back to visit him after she left with madeleine. claudia always hated louis which is why she still tried to defend him during the trial...

[murfpersonalblog]

*cough*💯

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You have became this medieval role, how do you feel about it

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

How do you feel?

great!! I love this

good!

It's okay

So bad. I hate this

This is similar to my real job!

Results/other

Remaining time: 21 hours 54 minutes

[apricops]

people saying that nepotism is a problem created by capitalism make me lose my mind. have you heard of this thing called "a king"

[borgialucrezia]

"Mysaria is maybe the first truly romantic connection. She offers a window into a type of hardship that opens Rhaenyra’s eyes to a portion of experience to which she’s had no access." — EMMA D'ARCY

[ondeadpeasantgirls]

The one thing that gets me with how wrong Bridgerton is, is that the Regency period was riddled with sex scandals. Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron. Lord Byron, his bisexuality, his incestuous relationship with his half-sister, his separation from his wife and his affair with Mary Shelley’s step sister. John Church officiating gay marriages on Vere street. The lesbians Ladies of Llangollen who got a royal pension. The Percy-Shelleys and Shelley’s wife. Also whatever was going on with Percy and Shelley’s step sister. And whatever in the unethical polyamory was going on with the Duke of Devonshire, his first wife, her best friend and a future prime minister (though that was old news by the Regency). George IV, and some of his sisters and brothers had secret and illegal marriages. Also George IV’s divorce, debts and general enthusiasm for widows and MILFS. We have more sex scandals in the show but what I’m saying is Lady Whistledown wouldn’t have time to write about the Bridgertons or be generally catty and insulting; she’d be running a full blown tabloid.

Also the Napoleonic wars not being included was a choice.