Weekend Challenge: Book quote

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Okay, let's go with an old favourite to kick off 2023's first Weekend Challenge!

I am currently reading Book 7 of The Expanse (Persepholis Rising) by James A. Corey, and it has 549 pages. Give me a number or numbers between 1 and 549, and I will give you a quote from that page or pages to hopefully inspire you! Write more than 200 words or create at least 2 icons/1 banner from your prompt by Thursday midnight in your timezone, and I'll reward you with an icon or two of your choice or 100 words in one of my WIPs!

Now come on down and get your prompts!

passing to....

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I got no writing done today...but I've been excited about classes starting on Monday so I've been filling out my day planners and making sure I have all my supplies.

There's always next time as I'll be knee-deep in the semester and writing papers.

Passing on to shanachie_quill. Good luck!

Word of the Day 01/07/23 Oort Cloud

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Oort Cloud (noun)
Oort cloud[ awrt-kloud, ohrt ]

noun Astronomy.
1. a region of our solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto, in which billions of comets move in nearly circular orbits unless one is pulled into a highly eccentric elliptical orbit by a passing star.

Compare Kuiper belt.

ORIGIN: First recorded in 1975–80; after Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort (1900–1992), who proposed its existence

HOW TO USE OORT CLOUD IN A SENTENCE
(Somewhere, on another cloud, live gigabytes of photos from these very parties).
I’M A DIGITAL HOARDER|LIZZIE CROCKER|DECEMBER 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

An innovative gift is the Qardioarm, a blood pressure monitor that records readings and uploads them to the cloud.
NOTHING SAYS I LOVE YOU LIKE DATA|THE DAILY BEAST|DECEMBER 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST

By Alex Orlov for Life by DailyBurn Do dark, chilly days make your mood cloud over this time each year?
9 WAYS TO COPE WITH SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER|DAILYBURN|DECEMBER 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The FSLN-controlled legislative assembly approved the mega-project under a cloud of secrecy in a record seven days.
CHINA’S NICARAGUA CANAL COULD SPARK A NEW CENTRAL AMERICA REVOLUTION|NINA LAKHANI|NOVEMBER 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.

Daily Count reminder

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How is the writing thing going for you? Any bumps or hiccups in remembering the days you're accountable for?

If not, great! If so, that's still great! We're going to help you with that!

Here are the next 7 people for the month! Let's cheer them on to get those words!!

SU 8 – shanachie_quill
MO 9 – itsanonyx
TU 10 – agdhani
WE 11 – calzephyr77
TH 12 – flipflop_diva
FR 13 – Dreamy
SA 14 – skargasm

Happy continued writing!