Because In Fantasy Perhaps More Than In

I'm Trying To Make All The Characters Change And Grow, Or Regress.

I Loved To Read And To Write, But Then Something Happened. As I Made My Way Through School, I Kept Getting Handed Books To Read That Didn't Excite Me And Didn't Even Remotely Connect To The Realities Of My Life.

There Is A Difference Between Finding Trouble In Your Path And Going Out Of Your Way Searching For It.” -jacen Solo

"a Man Inferior With The Blade Or With His Thoughts Can Still So Elevate Himself," Entreri Explained Curtly, "if He Can Impart The Belief That Some God Or Other Speaks Through Him. It Is The Greatest Deception In All The World And One Embraced By Kings And Lords, While The Minor Lying Thieves On The Streets Or Calimport And Other Cities Lose Their Tongues For So Attempting To Coax The Purses Of Others."

Nostalgia Is A Necessary Thing, I Believe, And A Way For All Of Us To Find Peace In That Which We Have Accomplished, Or Even Failed To Accomplish. At The Same Time, If Nostalgia Precipitates Actions To Return To That Fabled, Rosy-painted Time, Particularly In One Who Believes His Life To Be A Failure, Then It Is An Empty Thing, Doomed To Produce Nothing But Frustration And An Even Greater Sense Of Failure.