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Writers usually meet in the [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=32 Writers' Forum]. This is where you can go to discuss possible contributions to mainline Wesnoth writing (campaign dialog, unit descriptions, etc.), work on the Wesnoth Manual, collect reference information about the world of Wesnoth, world-build, and do other writerly things.
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Writers usually meet in the [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=32 Writers' Forum]. This is where you can go to discuss possible contributions to mainline Wesnoth writing (campaign dialog, unit descriptions, etc.), work on the Wesnoth Manual, collect reference information about the world of Wesnoth, world-build, and do other writerly things. If you have an IRC client, you can also contact Turuk about joining the [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth-writing #wesnoth-writing] channel on irc.freenode.net and talk about writing in realtime.
  
 
To be included in the Battle for Wesnoth, text must be released and available under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Gnu General Public License]. Read [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2015 this forum post by Jetryl] and [[Wesnoth:Copyrights]] for more information on this.
 
To be included in the Battle for Wesnoth, text must be released and available under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Gnu General Public License]. Read [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2015 this forum post by Jetryl] and [[Wesnoth:Copyrights]] for more information on this.

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Getting Started

General Information

Writers usually meet in the Writers' Forum. This is where you can go to discuss possible contributions to mainline Wesnoth writing (campaign dialog, unit descriptions, etc.), work on the Wesnoth Manual, collect reference information about the world of Wesnoth, world-build, and do other writerly things. If you have an IRC client, you can also contact Turuk about joining the #wesnoth-writing channel on irc.freenode.net and talk about writing in realtime.

To be included in the Battle for Wesnoth, text must be released and available under the Gnu General Public License. Read this forum post by Jetryl and Wesnoth:Copyrights for more information on this.

Where Should I Start?

The Writers' Forum is fairly new. It's fairly easy to have a look around and see what's up.

Part of what writers are doing now is world building; keep in mind that this involves bringing together information from all over the Wesnoth universe. In other words, this forum does contain spoilers.

Reference Material

These materials may contain spoilers. This is necessary for writers, who may not want or need to play through a campaign to work over the dialog. If you don't want spoilers, you're in the wrong place.

Current Writing

The current text for Wesnoth can be accessed in various places. Most obviously, you see the text when you play the game. Less obviously, you can look through the scenario config files (found in your game data directory) to see the dialogue, and you can easily access unit descriptions through the Wesnoth Unit Tree.

There is also a current project to copy all campaign dialogue onto the wiki.

The world of Wesnoth

Useful Resources: These are not tutorials!

You can't really have a tutorial on how to write. Everyone has a different process. However, here are some pages from the internet that you could glance at before taking up your pen.