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Recently, I saw this question posed on the internet: Where do your ideas come from, and how do you know which ones to pursue? (Short answer to the first part of the question: Everywhere. Long answer to the first part of the question: I will direct you to my post about hobbies.) But it is…

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Perfectionism vs. Following Your Instincts in Creative Writing

Once upon a time, I briefly wrote about perfection vs. instinct when it comes to writing professionally. Now, there’s not really a designated amount of time for how long it should take a person to write a book. For many authors it generally takes about a year; some can whip a book out in an…

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Meditation

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“The king, the priest, the rich man–who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It’s a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers. All depends on the man with the sword.”
“And yet he is no one. He has neither crown nor gold nor favor of the gods, only a piece of pointed steel.”
“That piece of steel is the power of life and death.”
“Just so…yet if it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend our kings hold the power? Why should a strong man with a sword ever obey a child king like Joffrey, or a wine-sodden oaf like his father?”
“Because these child kings and drunken oafs can call other strong men, with other swords.”
“Then these other swordsmen have the true power. Or do they? …Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”
“So power is a mummer’s trick?”
“A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.”

 

Tyrion Lannister and Lord Varys, A Clash of Kings (George R.R. Martin)