I'm a big Star Wars fan. There's tons of anti imperialism and I love the visual aesthetic, but I always felt we should see the empire doing some actual imperialism, with actual atrocities and the effects of financial imperialism like america does today. I wanted to try my hand at world building so I began writing a story that I felt scratched that itch with a 21st century understanding of technology. So andor comes out and I'm three episodes in and it's exactly what I wanted from the franchise so far.

I hardly felt like my story was going anywhere in terms of publishing or anything. I'm not a great writer, my allegories aren't elegant, and I'm sure it's unintentionally full of liberalism. Plus, like I said, it's almost Star Wars fanfiction. But I'm enjoying writing it and I would like to try to publish it since it's kind of written for bazinga brained libs to try to get them to look this stuff in the face, but I fear it's just going to be called derivative or compared to Andor.

I don't know, I'm going to keep at it. Worst case scenario I'll post it online. This was mostly a vent about losing my inspiration in a way.

Edit: I should be clear, it is not set in the star wars cannon, I'm just worried about it being compared to star wars and losing my own ambition.

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    If you don't mind potentially dumb-ass suggestions from the peanut-gallery,

    A lot of popular science fiction tries to do everything at once -- robots, faster-than-light travel, mind-uploading, holograms, "lazer-swords", oh my! But some really great science fiction was written on the basis of what couldn't be done. Dune exists in a future without computers. Expanse has no FTL.‡ Deciding what isn't possible upfront can give a narrative clear boundaries to work within, and a developmental logic to the magic-technology that is possible.

    ‡

    I'm using this footnote to acknowledge the portal gates, haha, you can't correct me now!

    • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      If you don’t mind potentially dumb-ass suggestions from the peanut-gallery

      I mean, that's all my book is in the first place lol

      some really great science fiction was written on the basis of what couldn’t be done.

      That's a really good point! I have some of that in the story already, but it's things that I personally don't ever see coming to fruition, such as FTL travel without wormholes or the like. I'll definitely keep that in mind as I write!