Midnight is creeping up on me, and I'm just finishing edits to my 10-year old daughter's school paper. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. It is 10 pages long. Double-spaced, yes, but 10 pages?!? Scout (my daughter - yes, it's from To Kill a Mockingbird) has apparently adopted my verbosity. Here's a sample from the paper:The minstrels begin “Great Calm Plains,” Sallvendale’s most popular song. I pick E Midnight is creeping up on me, and I’m just finishing edits to my 10-year old daughter’s school paper. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. It is 10 pages long. Double-spaced, yes, but 10 pages?!? Scout (my daughter – yes, it’s from To Kill a Mockingbird) has apparently adopted my verbosity. Here’s a sample from the paper:The minstrels begin “Great Calm Plains,” Sallvendale’s most popular song. I pick Ella Jense, Nimbara’s princess, for the dance. She is naturally tan with shiny, black, thick, clean hair. She smells like mint leaves. She is a wonderful dancer and singer. Her smile comes easily like her father’s, who is King Nickolas. She is his main pride ever since Queen Lucy died of food poisoning.Ah, there’s some Morrissey in her, at least. I long for the day that I’ll see her write lyrics like this:Tell all of my friends (I don’t have too many Just some rain-coated lovers’ puny brothers).Morrissey is genius. And I’m verbose. So is Scout. I’m going to have her be my ghost writer. Just need to whip her up into a frenzy of GPL fanaticism and you’ll never know I’ve left. 🙂Thanks for enduring my Brevity Void. Open Source