>
> > Well, okay... I read that, and similar questions as "Do you
> know
> > what year the hay baler was invented if hay baling is at all
> > relevant to your novel?" I confess that I don't know, off the top
> of
> > my head, how much gold actually weighs either. Though I
> > assume it's heavy. This is, however, the sort of thing I would
> > look up if I were going to have my characters cart truckloads
> of
> > gold around. I already checked with my sister on realistic
> > expectations for the speed/distance a typical packhorse could
> > manage in a day.
>
> *sighs* My novel (first book in a trilogy) has a character who
> started off in the real world and got transported to the fantasy
> world.
>
> I think I'm gonna write a story that answers yes to ALL of those
> questions. THAT should be good.
>
> -Rifty

I suppose we all ought to be very grateful that Sam wrote this exam long after the entire Star Wars set of trilogies was completed. Looking down the list, poor old George's story would've crashed and burned miserably.

Of course, those plot elements were probably put into the exam *because* Star Wars had already used and popularized them. ;)

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