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Yes, I would say that she would be at full term, or possibly up to two to three weeks away from full term (they might have had to birth the babies a bit early to save their life). Also, I believe it's been stated that Padmé intentionally wore clothes that would hide the pregnancy, though I don't know how effective that could be when you're eight months pregnant with twins.

 

For wizards, sorcerers or warlocks?

 

Thanks. I actually don't mind much of EP III, but the whole way they portrayed the pregnancy drives me insane. And, yeah, many of the public gowns she wears in the film are supposed to conceal her pregnancy, and if the film is supposed to take place over 3-4 months, okay, I'll believe the first few costumes she is in, but the last few, when she clearly gives birth to two healthy, full weight babies, just make me cringe.

 

It doesn't surprise me that they used the same belly prosthesis throughout the film (so I guess, maybe GL did intend the movie to take place over a few days and she is supposed to be around 8 months at the start).

But yeah, I remember reading somewhere that the baby they used was 2 months old, which I guess makes sense out of universe. Newborn babies are kinda hard to get for the purposes of a filming schedule

 

Wondering whether I should start my Wedge/Iella fic from their return from Adumar/engagement, their wedding or a slightly later point that'll kick-off the main plotline. Any suggestions?


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Given that your main plotline starts after the wedding, I would suggest a lead in referencing the wedding and start your main story.

 

Just start it. We'll read!

 

Thanks guys. After the wedding it is!


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I am designing a reptile race, that I call the Proud, for the Unknown Regions based on the 'Alien Bounty Hunter' archetype from the All Flesh Most Be Eaten supplement All Tomorrow's Zombies and want suggestions on how their architecture/s should look like. The Proud have rather human like bodies but with tale and large lizard like heads, their technology is somewhere around Starship Troopers, Avatar, Firefly and Alien and have not, in practise spread outside of their homesystem.

So any suggestions?

 

Hey guys, technical question here. When I try to use spoiler tags, I often get a second, empty spoiler right underneath it. What am I doing wrong?
I use [ spoiler= whatevah] and finish with [ /spoiler]
(no spaces)

 

There must have been a space made by your word processor right above or right below. Happens to me, too; which is why I copy and paste in plain text mode and add italics etc by hand.

 

If you want to take them away, try using "Use BB Code Editor" in the upper right corner.

 

I'm wondering how many civil servants worked for the Empire (at the begining of A New Hope for instance)?

 

A hundred billion at the very least, probably a billion on Coruscant alone, if not more.

 

Wow! I was about to write something like some hundred thousands ^_^
Thanks for the feedback

 

No worries. It is a big galaxy after all, and Coruscant's population has in past EU sources been estimated to be pretty close to a trillion sentients.

 

Does the star around which Coruscant revolves have the same name than the planet?

 

It's Coruscant Prime according to the Wook.

Also, to give you an element of comparison about civil servants, Greece, population 10 million, has ~600,000 civil servants. France has ~700,000 civil servants working in the education sector alone. So yeah, don't be afraid to put a lot of zeros there

 

Thanks a lot!

 

So like, you ever have that issue where you've got a chapter finished, but the end doesn't feel quite right? So you let it sit for a day or two, then come back to it, mess around a bit and still can't figure it out? I've been playing that game with this friggin chapter for a week now.

Has anyone managed to resolve this problem in the past? I don't want to grapple with this thing anymore.

 

Oh yes, that's an issue I have all the time, and if anyone has a permanent solution I'd love to hear it

My band-aid solutions are:

1. Remind myself of the point that chapter was supposed to make -- if that works, it usually entails revising quite a bit of the chapter but not re-writing it from scratch,
2. Write the next chapter in its entirety, and then come back to the troublesome one to rewrite the ending,
3. Write several more chapters and come back to the troublesome one -- sometimes I realise that it wasn't so bad after all and just needs minor tweaking,
4. Let it mature for months, come back to it and either have a flash of genius or, in despair, end up posting it as it is,
5. Go for the radical solution known in Greek as "your head hurts? cut off your head!", i.e. delete the whole chapter and rewrite it from scratch. Yes, I've done that. It was painful, but it worked.

 

A French novelist, Bernard Werber (Empire of the Ants, The Thanatonauts) said, once a novel is finished a first time, to rewrite it completely.

 

I think it depends on where one is with their writing. I see it this way: when one hasn't written for a long time, it may take some time to write stuff that doesn't sound too simple, sterile or whatever and expanding the first version later is a must, as it may seem like the latter work or latter chapters of the same work are better.

 

I think it also depends on the writing style. Some people are the "get it down NOW and revise later" types, but I tend to revise as I go, so as a result, the first draft that I finish, often tends to be almost identical as to what I end up posting.

I agree with Chyntuck. Move on and come back. Maybe you will get a brilliant idea. If not, then decide if it's something you are alright posting anyways (it sucks, but if it's not a super important chapter, sometimes it is best just to accept it and not let it bog down your writing process) or, open a new word document, and completely rewrite the chapter and see where it goes.