#favortism

I really enjoyed Leia and Anakin rescuing Obi-Wan from Geonosis, partly because that was where I really got to demonstrate how the story would be plot divergent but mostly because of all the OT references I got to have Leia drop. I think I was the most proud of the scene with Palpatine and Anakin in the last few chapters. Palpatine managed to come across to the reader as super sleazy while a lot of what he was saying and doing could be construed as benign by Anakin. That’s incredibly hard to do, especially if you and your audience already know who the villain is. It’s too tempting to have them slip and reveal themselves. It makes my skin crawl to read it and I wrote it. Very proud of that.

“‘Nathan looks like he doesn't care about and looks down upon figure skating as a sport!!!’ Cue Nathan using his free time to complete his coaching certification and coaching the younger skaters.... your faves can never and will never, sorry not sorry.”

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Many people are approaching life from the flawed premise that if they work hard and struggle long and pay a big enough price, they will then be rewarded with financial well-being. And since they do not realize that in their struggle they are denying themselves alignment with the abundance they seek, when the abundance does not come, they attribute it to luck or favoritism that is being directed away from them and toward another. But there is no luck or favoritism. There is only allowing or resisting, letting in or keeping out the abundance that you deserve. As you gradually train your own thoughts into those of positive expectation, as you align with thoughts of worthiness and Well-Being, as you align with your true power by seeking good-feeling thoughts—you will no longer offer resistance to your own abundance. And when your resistance stops, your abundance will come. A flood of good-feeling ideas and possibilities will flow to you. Opportunities and propositions will be plentiful. And soon you will stand in knowing amusement that all of this was always there within your reach, but in your resistant state of attraction, you were not yet able to experience it . . . but then, it came—not because of your struggle but because of your ease. -Abraham