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== Literature ==
* Covenant in the ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'' spends a remarkable number of pages not having a real hang of his own [[Wild Magic]]. Most of it is pure instinct, even without his knowledge early on. It's not until the second trilogy that we see him directing it toward definite purposes, complete with a training regimen... he uses his wild magic to shave, precisely to teach himself control over it.
* Say what you will about the [[Door StopperDoorstopper]] length of Robert Jordan's ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, but it does allow the channeling characters a realistic period of time to get a grasp on controlling and developing their powers. Notably, none of the characters become [[Instant Expert|Instant Experts]], but have a learning curve of three or four books before they gain consistent control. Nyneave takes a full ''seven'' books to overcome her block.
** Learning to use ''saidin'' without a teacher is so difficult that Rand finally has to [[Batman Gambit|trap a Forsaken]] to keep from getting himself killed. Later, Nynaeve and Elayne hold another one hostage in order to learn lost techniques that have stayed lost for a good three millennia.
* [[Dragaera|Vladimir Taltos]] has no freaking clue what he's doing with {{spoiler|his new [[Empathic Weapon]], Godslayer}} and has gotten himself in a lot of trouble with such screw-ups as accidentally destroying a sorceress's soul in the process of blocking something nasty she threw at him.
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