Why we like villains About what makes an effective villain

Top 10 of SW 2005 I saw the Top 10 of SW 2005 and had to do one of my own, since this is definitely the year of SW mania.

Everything I needed to know about writing, I learned from Palpatine All right, so I gave you the preview of what I learned about writing from Star Wars and now that I'm nearly 200 pages into my own novel, I'm sitting here and going "I know I like Palpatine, but this is ridiculous!"

What We Missed from the Deleted Scenes--A Bailfan's Lament My thoughts on why the deleted scenes should have been kept in.

Everything I need to know about writing, I learned from Star Wars I am about to do something audacious. When my mother turned 50, she applied for graduate school to get her Master's in Piano Pedagogy. I am turning 25 on November 26 and I have promised myself that I will have written 25 chapters of my first novel by

A note of explanation on Yodaspeak An answer to why I referred to Yoda in the same sentence as Biblical Hebrew.

EP. 5 Let me start out by warning you. This is my absolute favorite of all the Star Wars movies and I am coming off a viewing high. I went to Mediaplay with my friend Marianna the other day and, while perusing the DVDs, I couldn't stop hearing lightsabers and

Episode IV: A writer's critique of the OT, Part 1 As you can tell, I am primarily a writer. I've done a lot of writing workshops as a result and have been the critic for dozens of friends and all three of my siblings. As a result, I tend to look at things with a slightly skewed viewpoint. When I first

On writing--an interview with me from tf.n This was done in the Jaina/Jag index at boards.theforce.net, but deals a lot with my general practices in writing.

KILL LUKIE!--how to make all of your characters love the Dark Side Ideas on how to create the Dark Side in characters.