SciFi/Fantasy – July 5

“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
– Isaac Newton, who on this date in 1687 published his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist’s achievement of a small goal distracts her/him from the fact that s/he missed the opportunity to achieve a much greater goal.

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