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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.
