STARWARS Works Introduction

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Special Training and Auxiliary Regulations for Writing And Role-playing Stories

Welcome to the Special Training and Auxiliary Regulations for Writing And Role-playing Stories Workshop, a series of writing lessons collected here on the Vast Empire Wiki, for VE members of all experience levels who are looking to improve the quality of their prose and raise the caliber of intra-club collaborative storytelling.

STARWARS Works serves as a supplement to Basic Training and Flight School (and the various other training offerings of the Vast Empire Naval Academy), and is similarly a work-at-your-own-pace, largely self-guided affair. Unlike BT and FS, however, participation in the STARWARS Workshop (reading the lessons, completing the exercises, abiding by the standards outlined, etc.) is entirely voluntary. The Workshop is designed to be read in order (at least the first time through), and completed over many weeks, however individual participants may wish to focus more or less on particular lessons, and may take more or less time to work through the exercises. That’s fine. Ultimately, how you choose to participate in this Workshop (or even if you choose to participate) is up to you; it is offered here as a free resource, for the use of any who want it, and for the betterment of the VE.

Notes: The STARWARS Workshop is an initiative of the Vast Empire Naval Academy, and is primarily focused on training VE Naval personnel, but most of the lessons should prove useful for members participating in other Divisions, too. The Workshop was conceived, designed, and created by Vast Empire member Wyl “Trick” Trykon, with wiki help from VE member Dracule “Drac” Mihawk. All outside source material is credited, with relevant citations appearing at the bottom of every lesson.

The Meaning of the Acronym - The Goals and Scope of the STARWARS Workshop

The Workshop's titular acronym spells out exactly what it's all about, as follows:

Special Training

Starwars Works is Special Training for writers, in that the exercises and lessons herein are designed to prepare members in the Vast Empire to write bigger and better stories than the common-denominator, 500-word posts demanded of new recruits by Basic Training and Flight School. In other words, STARWARS Works is special training, for special writers who want to advance their craft beyond the basics.

Auxiliary Regulations

STARWARS Works also contains a set of Auxiliary Regulations for club members, in that the "rules" of grammar, spelling, punctuation, formatting, tense, and point of view outlined herein are designed to serve collectively as an official standard for composing prose in the Vast Empire, a higher standard of writing than the rudimentary requirements set forth by Basic Training and Flight School. In other words, STARWARS Works includes auxiliary regulations, which supplement the regulations of the more basic training programs with more challenging, exacting standards.

Writing And Role-playing

STARWARS Works is about Writing, And also Role-playing. The Vast Empire is a literary RPG - we're here to tell stories and have fun together, by writing collaboratively - and that means we have to be skilled writers and skilled role-players.

Stories

In summary, STARWARS Works is about stories. It's for writers who want to write better stories: stories which are more entertaining, more thought-provoking, more emotionally-fraught, and more well-constructed than those they'd be capable of writing if they didn't undergo some Special Training and didn't challenge themselves to follow some Auxiliary Regulations.

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