A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

As great minds can express much in a few words, so small minds have the contrary talent of talking a great deal without saying anything at all.
 
[Comme c’est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits, au contraire, ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶142 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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Though I did not write all in the same story.
With some 800ish words in the story from the Lent Challenge and some 1200ish from The Princess and The Sword.

I'm couting them both together for the purpose of hitting the daily wordcount of 1000 words.

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#wordcount for today. 📚

CAW Term of the Week - Word Count
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I've started to write a little book about the Fediverse, It has now gotten to over 12k words.

What do you think is a must that needs to be in the book?

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The seven future societies I set out to design have enough detail for now. Time to finally return to drafting the manuscript! Working Title: Springs of Light Words written today: 1,333 #scifi #clifi #novel #writing #morningroutine #wordcount #dailywords #worldbuilding #writingcommunity #booksky

Distinct political structures have now been built for each future society. Resumption of drafting the story is so close! Working Title: Springs of Light Words written today: 1,297 #scifi #clifi #novel #writing #morningroutine #wordcount #dailywords #worldbuilding #writingcommunity #booksky

Word Count - Some standard word count guidelines
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http://georgelthomas.com/2018/09/11/word-count/

Just over 24 hrs later...

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Fleshed out the history and story arc of one future society. Six societies designed, one more to go. I'm almost ready to resume drafting the story. Working Title: Springs of Light Words written today: 2,235 #scifi #clifi #novel #writing #morningroutine #wordcount #dailywords #worldbuilding

One more future society designed today. That makes six sketched out in total. One more to go. Then I return to drafting the story. Working Title: Springs of Light Words written today: 2,027 #scifi #clifi #novel #writing #morningroutine #wordcount #dailywords #worldbuilding

Another future society designed. That makes four societies sketched out. I initially planned two more but now I'm thinking three for seven societies total Working Title: Springs of Light Words written today: 1,155 #scifi #clifi #novel #writing #morningroutine #wordcount #dailywords #worldbuilding

Worked on imagining a human society with altered sense perception and alien consciousness. Hard work, mind-warping, but rewarding. Working Title: Springs of Light Words written today: 1,603 #scifi #clifi #novel #writing #morningroutine #wordcount #dailywords #worldbuilding

One more future society designed. That makes three societies mapped out tentatively. Three more to go (plus one lost society, maybe). Working Title: Springs of Light Words written today: 693 #scifi #clifi #novel #writing #morningroutine #wordcount #dailywords #worldbuilding

The relationships between each of the future societies and how their transformations will shape the climax are coalescing. Working Title: Springs of Light Words written today: 2,081 #scifi #clifi #novel #writing #morningroutine #wordcount #dailywords #worldbuilding

The central concept is clear; I'm now developing the future that results, and each community involved in the narrative. Working Title: Springs of Light Words written: 1,424 #scifi #clifi #novel #writing #morningroutine #wordcount

If ya got #wordcount problems, I feel bad for ya, son...
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["...the fact that he goddamn tried to take me away from this world... None of it had been enough to make me fully turn my back on him.
Most would be worried. Dean was only grateful.
"I love you so much, Princess."
I finally met his eyes, already weeping like a bitch myself, just to confirm, "Fucking ditto."]
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A small amount of research yesterday unlocked a flood of ideas this morning. Feeling very excited about this story, set in a post climate crisis future Working Title: Springs of Light Words written: 2,191 #wordcount #novel #writing #morningroutine #creativeinspiration