These programs are related to writing.

Character Creation Program

The Character Creation Program is designed to help members hone their character creation skills, to write biographies that are suitable both for publication on the BFMS and to serve as the basis for applications to join games within the fleet. Completion of this module should result in a biography that will meet the 'well-developed biography' promotion qualification requirement for the Office of the Chief of Staff.

  • Cadets will develop a familiarity with using canon resources and understanding how Bravo Fleet canon relates to what we see on screen in Star Trek.
  • Cadets will become comfortable using the character creation function on the BFMS.
  • Cadets will understand the relationship between different types of character documents: character sheets, character biographies, and game applications.
  • Cadets will create a well-developed biography for one of their characters.
Completion of the Academy's New Member Program and Member Asset Program (or Command Management Program) are prerequisites of this program.

Fiction Writing Program

This program is designed to accomplish three things:

  • Get you familiar and comfortable with writing on the BFMS.
  • Get you acquainted with the general style of writing in Bravo Fleet, as well as how to bring our lore and canon into your stories.
  • Acquaint you with the Bravo Fleet Fiction Rubric, which details what "good writing" looks like in Bravo Fleet.
Completion of the Academy's Character Creation Program is a prerequisite of this intermediate program. You will be expected to demonstrate knowledge from those programs in your reflections and assignments.

Plot Development Program

The Plot Development Program is a tutorial on planning a mission from start to finish and then enacting that plan. While not all of us regularly write out outlines before starting to write and prefer to let the characters go where they want, this program is meant to focus on structure. It is intentionally meant to challenge you as a writer and to get you out of your comfort zone. By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Identify common narrative structures.
  • Develop a plot for a mission.
  • Execute their planned plot.

During this program, participants will be asked to follow a relatively structured plot mapping process. We recognize that not everyone wants to plan out every single mission they write, but for the purposes of this program, you're being asked to trust in the process. If you've never done something like this before, it will be an opportunity to see whether or not it works for you.

Completion of the Academy's Fiction Writing Program is a prerequisite of this advanced program.  You will be expected to demonstrate your learnings from those programs in your reflections and assignments.