Mallory O'Bier

@aella I’m just finishing over here, but I’ll be back in about an hour or so and then I’ll keep going for a couple hours.

@jess @winter-rose @overcomer @dragon-snapper @bluejay @kate-flournoy @anybody, really

I’m back for a bit! If anyone is up for some writing/editing, I’ll be here for a tinge. 🙂

(Also, @dragon-snapper I celebrate Christmas with a good bit of that- presents {sassy AND sweet for my family and friends, if I can pull it off}, feasts, lights, tree,…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Glad you liked it.

What’s the new quote?

@daeus I’m good with it. 🙂

@rolena-hatfield I really enjoy getting together with family and spending time with them.

@Daeus soooo… I read Cry the Beloved Country. I absolutely loved it. It’s a really unique book— not just the odd original punctuation, but the style, and the relative flatness of the plot, and yet it’s such a stirring book. It’s like reading a poem or something. 😀 Also it was a thinking book, not a preaching book, which I love for obvious…[Read more]

@Daeus yes. Much better. I agree with @Jess that that sentence still seems to be having trouble— perhaps because all subjects of that sentence are not necessarily in the same categorical thought-family, if you know what I mean?— but otherwise I love it.

Otherwise, @daeus I think it’s great!

@daeus Very good!
I have a few suggestions, though.
In the second sentence, you use the word ‘his’ quite a bit. Overly so.

His dedication to his wronged family is powerful enough to bring him through any trial, but his youth and inexperience hold him back.

Maybe you could write it as: “Dedication to his wronged family can bring him…[Read more]

Ok, @kate-flournoy @emma-flournoy @dragon-snapper @ingrid @hope @jess @mark-kamibaya @his-instrument @anyone-else

Here’s take three. Tell me what you think.

Matthew is sworn to avenge a murder. His dedication to his wronged family is powerful enough to bring him through any trial, but his youth and inexperience hold him back. Setting out to find…[Read more]

@i-j-anderson Yes, yes!! Someone got it!! 😀

@Audrey-Caylin not at all. I’m guessing this is probably something we all go through at one point or another. Glad I was in a position to help. 🙂

@Audrey-Caylin Awesome you showed up. (Though we don’t give trophies for that. I’m sure you’re fine without one.) And I have to be the first to welcome you to the bestistest place on the internet.

I know what you mean how the articles seem a little anti explicit Christianity in fiction. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the authors’ intents, but…[Read more]

@Christi-Eaton *bows* Happy to be of service. 😉

Hello @Audrey-Caylin! So great to have you here!

And this is an awesome discussion. It never really gets old. ‘Christian fiction’ can actually be a pretty broad category depending on your perspective and definition, but I’ll do my best to give the short answer that pretty much sums it all up for me, otherwise we’d be stuck here until we turned…[Read more]

@Ethryndal yes, I’ll pray. I know it’s hard having to work family around difficult health issues.

@Christi-Eaton yes. I don’t think there was a single thing about it I disliked. The one thing I was a little miffed on for The Force Awakens was that the plot was basically ‘destroy this huge weapon that is blowing up entire planets’ which was pretty much the plot of A New Hope, but the plot for Rogue One was perfect. And perfectly executed. And…[Read more]