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GSG NaNo Gaiden Podcast – Ep 15

25,000 words. Halfway there. If you’ve made it this far, celebrate! Reward yourself a little!

For me, the writing is becoming its own reward, but that’s not to say that the occasional $20.00 Steam game isn’t a nice incentive also. Writing like this requires discipline, focus, goal-setting and self-control. Whether you’re trying to develop these attributes in yourself is irrelevant – they are being created inside of you by the simple fact of your writing.

At the end of this process, you’ll have a good idea as to whether this is something that fulfills you. And if it is, the challenge becomes this: NEVER QUIT.

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Trust30 – #28 – Hard Words

Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is one of the ways I figure out what I’m thinking, and while I haven’t been doing a lot of it here (or in my fiction projects), I have been doing quite a bit of it in other, more private venues. And it’s been fascinating, on one hand, to get to the bottom of some issues that go right to the core of who I am and what I think. It was this Trust30 challenge that I’m horribly late on that got me started down this road and I’m grateful for what I’ve learned through the process. And at the same time it’s been hard and a part of me wishes that I’d never started.

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Trust30 – #27 – The Triumph of Principles

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The prompt for this day says to take a big hairy life goal that you haven’t started yet, or that you have been having a hard time with, and write down three uncertainties – fears – that you have concerning it. Then break that down a little further and write three reasons for the fear. That’s a good idea, and I may get to that in a future post, but first I have to address the quote. I have a fundamental problem with the first part of this little couplet, because I believe it may contradict the second part. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself? Yes – By submitting to and following correct principles. Because it’s too easy to use that first part to say that “I am a law unto myself.” Without the appropriate perception and attitude, you can spend a lot of time beating your head into walls and thinking that you’re pursuing peace. You don’t get to the moon and back without an understanding of life sciences, gravity, metallurgy, navigation, physics, etc. With the right understanding of the principles involved, even the sky isn’t the limit.

So, what are the principles that we have to adhere to? What principles exist that we can cling to? Are there any?

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