A Thousand Words (or perhaps just two)
I had to write a thousand words today. I'm preparing a submission for a conference. You have to write 1,000 words about your presentation. I'm preparing one about why we changed to C# from Java for our first language.I can do it in two words: "It's better". But in a 1,000 it is a little more tricky.
The work followed my usual pattern for these efforts. Great difficulty in getting the first 100 words out. Then something like a tap turns on in my head and before I know it I find I've got 1,500 of the blighters and I haven't got as far as the conclusion yet. Cue lots of editing (but I save the wordy version because - you never know) to get it down to the smaller number. It is not quite finished yet, but at least now I have enough to be going on with.
As for this week's puzzle, an oldie but a goodie involving words. Write me a completely correct sentance in english which contains five consecutive occurances of the word "and".