Star Wars Chat Pack: What’s your unexpected advantage?

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Welcome to Day 17 of my NaBloPoMo Challenge, in which I randomly pick a card from the Star Wars Chat Pack.

Today’s question is: Each member of the Bad Batch has qualities that give the team an edge in the field. What’s something different or unique about you, your friends, or siblings, that gives you an unexpected advantage?

When I first pulled this card, at first I saw “Bad Batch,” and I thought, Yay! Finally, a Bad Batch question! And then I read the rest of it and thought, oh crap. Can’t we just talk about the boys and Omega? Because I can’t think of a single thing to answer this question.

Advantage in what? The battlefield? (Clearly, nothing). Work? (Good customer service voice?) Life? Certainly nothing unique (or I wouldn’t be a cashier at the age of 52). I have some decent reading and writing skills, but there’s nothing unique in that.

If I dig deep, deep, deep down, I guess I could say I’m a good listener. While everyone else is jabbering away, I’m listening, observing, coming to conclusions. Maybe seeing or hearing what others don’t. That’s what writers do. And I guess that gives me an advantage if I ever buckle down and decide to pursue writing fiction seriously. Right now I’m distracted by blogging and Star Wars and other people’s creations to focus on my own. I’m having too much fun, and writing fiction with any sense of getting somewhere with it is hard, lol. But maybe someday. Before I, you know, die.

And maybe I interpreted the question wrong and it means what’s your advantage in the Star Wars universe. In which case….still nothing, lol. I’d probably be a waitress in some Outer Rim cantina. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

But enough about me. What’s your unique advantage? Don’t be shy, sing your praises! Let me know in the comments and we’ll talk about it!

And because this question referenced the Bad Batch, and because I love them beyond reason, here’s a few images of our beloved crew:

Meeting Omega on Kamino.
Saying goodbye to Kamino…and Crosshair.
Crosshair’s tipping point.
On Pabu.

Season Three can’t come soon enough!

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7 thoughts on “Star Wars Chat Pack: What’s your unexpected advantage?”

  1. “Right now I’m distracted by blogging and Star Wars and other people’s creations to focus on my own. I’m having too much fun, and writing fiction with any sense of getting somewhere with it is hard.”

    This is why I am writing my first novel at age 60. I knew it was hard work before I started, which perhaps explains why I chose to write a sequel to an existing (but shorter) novella of mine that’s already available on Amazon rather than write a standalone book. Before March, I allowed myself to get distracted by Star Wars, Star Trek, and other interests, plus my blog. But…I’m not getting younger, and when I set out (at age 14) to become a writer, I swore I’d write at least one novel before I go off to the undiscovered country….

    I had hoped to finish “Reunion: Coda” in time for the holidays, but…I’m getting ready to move from Florida to New Hampshire (in less than a month), so I had to put the novel writing aside.

    In case you’re interested in the novella that’s out there, you can read a sample of it here:

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    1. Hi Alex, yes, I’m hoping at some point in my autumn years I can settle down and focus on my own writing. Better late than never, right? Good for you working on your novel. I live in Massachusetts, so we’ll sort of be neighbors when you move to New Hampshire!

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      1. Far out. At least we’ll be in the same region: New England.

        Funny thing about the novel and my move. I started writing the manuscript for “Reunion: Coda” in March when I thought I’d be moving locally. I named one of my two leading ladies (the novel tells two parallel stories, one set in the 1980s, the other in 2000) Madison, aka “Maddie,” not realizing I’d be moving to Madison, NH.

        It’s weird how life works out sometimes, no?

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