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This is part of a Nerdist Podcast episode with Neil Gaiman. On deliberate writing: "If you only write when you're inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet but you will never be a novelist because you're gonna have to make your word count each day and   those words aren't going to wait for you whether you're inspired or not, so you have to write when you're not inspired and you have to write the scenes that don't inspire you.   And the weird things is that six months later, a year later, you'll look back at them you can't remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired, which scenes you wrote because they had to be written next." On the writing process: "The process of writing can be magical. There are times when you step out of an upper floor window and you just walk across thin air, its absolute nutter happiness.   Mostly it's a process of putting one word after another.   It's like out in p[---] district in Englan...

Don't crave novelty. Appreciate it. Don't seek it Be grateful for new things, but don't get upset when you don't get to have them. There's a virtue in the boring. In structure In consistency

Entrance to the Book Museum The Book Museum cum Ethnology Center is currently a division of three buildings. The first houses a collection of books and other items from different countries by the owner, Atty. Dominador Buhain, who is also president of the publishing company, Rex Bookstore. The next two is a collection of artifacts showcasing the Cordillera Region's cultures and the Southern Areas of the Philippines. The museums have a quiet sense to it. It's an impressive collection of items from all over the world and from the culturally-rich areas of the country. The one's that stand out the most are the "smallest book in the world", sizing at about 3.3 x 3.3  millimeters; the smallest tablet, which contains a Chinese poem; the smallest wood-carved crucifix from Munich, Germany and the smallest wood-carved "The Last Supper" from Angono, Rizal. The area devoted to the Cordillera Region and Visayas/Mindanao, houses artifacts from tribal periods...