First draft finished

I have finished the first draft of my new story. I think it is funny how when I create a story how things can change. When I first thought of the story my main character was a female. But as I started writing I started visualizing the character as a male. when I thought of the main character as being a male it felt right. I did try to stick to the character being a female as I did want a story about a female Jedi but it just felt right to have the main character being a male. I then decided to go with my gut feeling and as soon as I had done that it felt right.

I will just have to write another story about a female Jedi.

I am glad that I have finished the first draft. I am happy with the story so far. I do need to read up about how to write out the fight scenes as I wrote a quick fight version of these that I know I want to pad out more.

Now for the challenging bit. I will start off by typing up the story. I am not sure why but I just like writing the very first version on paper before I type it up. Once it has been typed up I will start the editing process. This is the process that seems to take the longest for me. It is trying to work out the point when I have to say enough editing is enough. One author (I think it was Ian Rankin) said that an author never truly finishes the book. They can always go back and change something.

Next story

I have decided what my next Star Wars short story will be about. I have decided against using a character that I have already created. I am going to create another new character.


The idea came to me during the day and I just knew that I could create a story as it was forming as I was thinking of the idea. It seemed to flow nicely and the storyline seemed to come together nicely.

I will be basing the story around the end of the Clone Wars. The story will be starting around the time of Order 66. I suppose the fact that I have been catching up on season 2 of The Clone Wars - the animated series had played a big part in the decision about the next story.

I do think it would be good experience of writing about combat. that is one area that I have not had much experience in writing about. Even less than the writing experience that I have had. But I will definitely do my best to write it to the best of my ability. I think I will have to read through some of the fight scenes in the Star Wars book that I have got to help me out and see if there are any tips online to help me.

I am looking forward to writing the story.

Finishing a story

I have published my Star Wars stories on fanfiction.net 

It started off by just putting on the first story that I had done. I was told that there is a very small chance that it could get seen and published on Hyperspace. I was told it is like winning the lottery but I had to try.

I was so pleased that I had done it that I re-looked at the second story that I had written, printed it off and edited it. I am actually happy with it now. The last time I looked at it I was not sure how I should edit it. But I was able to start editing the story last night and finish it this morning.

I think I will start another Star Wars story based around one of the characters that I have already written about.

Here are the links to where I put my stories.

Hide and Seek

The tale of the dancing spy

This month

I still have a lot on so even if I can manage to get something written then that would bee good enough. Anything else will be a bonus.