Get Out The Scissors, Cosplayers: Leia in Razor’s Edge Art

September 19, 2013September 19, 2013 Fangirl Del Rey, Empire and Rebellion, EU, Magali Villeneuve, Princess Leia, Razor's Edge, Star Wars

The star of Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion: Razor’s Edge artwork makes an appearance.

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Let The Speculation Begin! – Part Two: Context

August 23, 2013January 15, 2014 Fangirl Ahsoka Tano, Ashley Eckstein, Dark Horse, Dave Filoni, Del Rey, Episode VII, EU, Fangirls, George Lucas, Movies, Star Wars, Tim Zahn

The second part of a discussion of how fans speculate and the implication of the recent Episode VII media exposure

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Fangirls Around the Web: January 30, 2013

January 30, 2013January 29, 2013 Fangirl "Star Wars" (Dark Horse comic), Ashley Eckstein, Brian Wood, Cat Taber, Fangirls Around the Web, Star Wars, The Clone Wars, Wonder Woman

Fangirls Around the Web for January 30, 2013.

Troy Denning – Part Two

FG: When someone raised the issue of the potential deaths of the Big Three at the Del Rey panel yesterday,

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The Heroine’s Journey: How Campbell’s Model Doesn’t Fit

April 30, 2012April 4, 2017 Lex Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hero's Journey, heroine, Heroine's Journey, Hunger Games, Jaina Solo, Joseph Campbell, Katniss Everdeen, Matt Stover, monomyth, Once Upon a Time, Princess Leia Organa Solo, Seeking Strong Female Heroines, Star Wars, writing

Why isn’t the existing Hero’s Journey model already good enough to use for heroine-centered stories? In this post, we address the three main problems we see in Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and its impact on storytelling, and how we hope to design the Heroine’s Journey model differently to avoid them.