Mallory O'Bier

@ethryndal Ooh, that’s a good one. Here are a few that I missed on the vocab test. (trust me, there are more 😛 )

Parsimonious: Excessively cheap with money; stingy

Svelte: Slender and graceful

Embonpoint: Plump

Funambulist: Tightrope walker

@audrey-caylin Ha; that makes sense. There is a fair bit of overlap between these two questions. And that’s awesome. The more you as an author see your characters as real people and write like that, the more your readers will see them as real people as well. Glad to know I’m making people excited about homework. 😉

@ethryndal That looks great! Haven’t read the book myself, but you seem to have analyzed its theme well.

@dragon-snapper Cool; I may have to read that myself sometime. The focusing question may be stronger as just “through means of revenge or forgiveness,” but not having read the short story itself, I couldn’t say for sure.

Ha; I’m sure you are…[Read more]

Here’s one. It might be helpful to all you people who have battles in your stories.

Internecine: Mutually destructive to both sides in a conflict.

@Daeus Good job on that, you made me laugh out loud, which I rarely do. Obi-Wan on a broomstick… I’m at a loss for words. Though you make a good point; that line was always slightly troublesome. And then in Return of the Jedi, he tells Luke that a lot of truths we hold to are based on our point of view, or something like that. So…was he saying…[Read more]

@Emma-Flournoy All cheesy lines and triangles aside, I do like Kili. I agree, the whole Thorin Kili Fili thing was great, though I do wish they had developed Fili just a tad more. I think he would have made pretty interesting character, being the heir of Durin’s line and all. We kind of see the pressure that was on him, and how he was trying to…[Read more]

@faithdk Quite an accomplishment. 😉 I congratulate you.

@dragon-snapper No. His logic was false. It only applies to him because it was a self report.

@emma-flournoy You win a tour of the galaxy!

@daeus Okay, so hypothetically, you’re right. Does that make me a Sith?

@daeus Okay, so hypothetcally, you’re right. Does that make me a Sith?

@daeus Okay, so hypothitcally, you’re right. Does that make me a Sith?

@dragon-snapper It is too!

@daeus @emma-flournoy That is NOT how it went. And that is an image that I will never lose, Daeus. Obi-Wan on a broomstick. Hilarious, but not true. 😛
(Daeus, thanks for making me laugh really really hard. That was truly hilarious)

@daeus @emma-flournoy That is NOT how it went. And that is an image that I will never lose, Daeus. Obi-Wan on a broomstick. Hilarious, but not true. 😛

@emma-flournoy Ok, Obi-Wan has three statements there. Plug statements two and three back into statement one.

@dragon-snapper Methinks it doth sound like a great challenge! So when thou posteths ye newe word, thou must also posteth ye definition thereof?

I got an estimated 21,900 words. To be honest, I thought I’d do quite well (I am a wordy person) 😛 but I was surprised how many words there were that I didn’t know! Anyways, that was an interesting test to take; thanks for sharing, Sierra 😀

@dragon-snapper @emma-flournoy No, I’ll prove it! Here’s direct quotes from episode III.

Obi-Wan: Only Sith deal in absolutes

(about 30 sec later)

Obi-Wan: Chancellor Palpatine is evil!
Anakin: From my point of view, the Jedi are evil
Obi-Wan: Then you are lost *face grows ghostly and wrinkled like Palpatine’s* *cackles manically* *flies away on broom*

Just so you all know, I think the max score is somewhere around 45,000 hundred words. I was curious so I check-marked them all. ( @northerner which means you are a genius 😛 )

@daeus WHHHAAATT!!!!???? @emma-flournoy Obi-Wan is NOT a Sith. Seriously, we need another moderator to moderate this one. And Daeus, Obi-Wan is MY favorite character. 😛