I love Star Wars.

I read the comics and novels, and I watch the movies and TV shows. 

All of them. 

Including the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi series . . .

Sigh. 

Here is the thing: your story needs to make sense. 

The reader or viewer needs to understand what is happening and why the characters are doing what they are doing. 

The Kenobi series was unfortunately hampered by nonsensical storytelling throughout.  

Here's a simple example: 

In one episode, a young Princess Leia enters a tunnel. A few minutes later, the villain Reva enters the same tunnel following her. When Leia reaches the end of the tunnel, Reva is already there waiting for her. It just doesn’t make sense logically. The audience how know idea whatsoover how Reva got ahead of Leia. 

Ensuring your story’s logic is consistent, its character motivations clear, and its plot free from holes requires planning ahead. 

Planning is something Lucasfilm has struggled with ever since it was acquired by Disney.

In fact, the Disney Star Wars sequel trilogy is nearly universally acknowledged as a disaster at this point. What went wrong? 

Was it the acting? 

The special effects? 

The costumes? 

Nope. It was the writing. 

Lucasfilm went into the trilogy without a plan for the story and the films suffered immensely because of it. 

My free STORY PLAN INTENSIVE program helps writers take a different approach than the one Star Wars has taken of late. 

Rather than having the shaggy dog trilogy Lucasfilm ended up with after making it up as they went along, the writers in this challenge will finish the program with a rock-solid outline that will allow them to double the quality of their first draft while cutting the drafting and revisions time in half.

The outline will set them up for long-term success, rather than the short-term high and long-term pain unplanned manuscripts almost always create.

This challenge is focused on you learning, developing, and implementing the foundational planning techniques professional writers use to write bestselling novels and beloved narratives.

We’re getting started next Monday . . . and I want you to join us.

Sign-up here.

Your pal in writing,

Kevin T. Johns, writing coach

P.S. Don't even get me started on Obi-Wan sneaking Leia out of the Fortress Inquisitorius under a damn trench coat!