Riffing on Star Wars
July 27, 2016 7:05 AM   Subscribe

Riffing on Star Wars
I've started a new writing project, Riffing on Star Wars, in which once or twice a week I spontaneously choose a random topic from Star Wars and write about it off the top of my head. So far this has run the gamut from the Hutts to Admiral Thrawn. My goal is to broaden my ability to discern potential writing topics for not just Star Wars, but other topics, and simply exercise my writing ability. See below for links to the first ten riffs!

Below are the first ten articles:
Role: Writer
posted by Atreides (3 comments total)

This is good work, keep it up. You should read Somethingawful's Supermechagodzilla, if only to disagree with him violently.
posted by Sebmojo at 5:26 AM on August 13, 2016 [1 favorite]


Thanks! I'll also check out Supermechagodzilla, it isn't the internet if everyone agrees on everything.
posted by Atreides at 6:57 PM on August 13, 2016


New links to the same articles, but now at their central home Brown's Review.

Riffing on Star Wars: #1 - The Hutts
Riffing on Star Wars: #2 - R2-D2, the Fetish
Riffing on Star Wars: # 3 - Luke Skywalker and the Post-Jedi Expanded Universe
Riffing on Star Wars: #4 - Droids, Slaves or Machines?
Riffing on Star Wars: #5 - Thrawn, Rebels, and the Expanded Universe
Riffing on Star Wars: #6 - How the Millennium Falcon Got Its Groove
Riffing on Star Wars: #7 - The X-wings of Our Youth
Riffing on Star Wars: #8 - The Why of Tatooine
Riffing on Star Wars: # 9 - Humanizing the Enemy
Riffing on Star Wars: # 10 - The Fall of the Jedi

Plus additional posts since!

Riffing on Star Wars: #11 – The Sequels to Star Wars
Riffing on Star Wars: #12 – Why Water Matters in Star Wars
Riffing on Star Wars: #13 – Concealment in the Star Wars Universe
Riffing on Star Wars: #14 – The Sadness of The Force Awakens
posted by Atreides at 2:58 PM on August 16, 2016


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