Fiction Writing

Fiction writing in the Rebel Squadrons is done through the Aurora Force, which uses the Topica mailing lists. It's a common misconception that we use our forums for our writing -- we most certainly do not.

Through our run-on storyline (which has been extant for several years, with new people adding and old people leaving throughout that period), we have developed a tale that is actually quite long. One major storyline alone ended up reaching more than three hundred pages. Most story arcs are not quite that expansive.

Having a guide for Star Wars fiction writing is a little odd, but here is some advice from the sage Kaz:

Don't be a douchebag, you don't have superpowers.

You are not the world's most renowned Jedi, you are not an unstoppable pilot or commando.

Here's a little more from Indy:

You control only your character, no one else's.  If you're not sure what another character
would say in a given situation, it might be a good idea to contact the person who plays said 
other character and talk out the situation you're trying to write.

Paragraphs, punctuation, and other grammatical things are your friends.  Do not disrespect 
them...or us.  Spelling does matter most of the time.

Write your posts in Word, Wordpad, Notepad -- some kind of word processing system -- before 
you try to send them out.  This prevents you from losing an entire post due to e-mail errors, 
ect.  It took the XO a couple of years to learn this lesson, and he is much happier for having 
learned, as are we all.