"Chaos is a ladder," so says Game of Thrones.

My goal is to meet the person who wrote that line.

Like all great art, there are a million ways you can interpret that line. Please, enjoy your own. But mine? Mine came to me like my first book idea jumping into my head while walking on campus - a bolt of lightning that feels like it's come out of nowhere until you realize it is something that has been building for 24 years.