Pretty powerful questions and conflicts. Excellent post, Kristen.

Chris

”You (or in this case your character) must do the thing you think you cannot do.” It is why I tell people that I write fiction. My James Bond character is six-foot tall and a handsome blonde blue-eyed superior athlete who has mastered the Martial Arts. John Pate has a gorgeous five-foot ten blonde blue-eyed girlfriend/wife with a great body named Samantha Radford. – Bewitched

“Why must one let go of the goal of love in order to be worthy of love?” It is the reason that I am still single. The happiness of a woman is more important to me than my own happiness. The ladies are better off with that taller and better looking and better athlete with a steady income. I have to let them go or I expect them not to stay because I have no money. They have to decide that they want me as I am. My romance novels become predictable.

“What is the key to belonging–biology or ideology?” For me it would be ideology because why would I want to belong to a social organization if I do not like the members. I would rather be alone. Thank God for Social Media. You can tell women on the Internet not to date me because I am not really an athlete or I cannot afford things and I will be a bum for the rest of my life. I will not care because I do not have to hang out with you in the same fraternity house or eat at the same cafeteria table for breakfast and lunch and supper. I will not be expected to play golf with the members or poker on weekends while wearing those alligator shirts and Top-Sider loafers. It does not include trying to get me to smoke that weed to have friends or tell me not to date women I would marry because I am not worshiping Jesus Christ. It would be Ideology. I would surf for better friends.

Groundhog Day question: Why must one let go of the goal of love in order to be worthy of love?

Pan’s Labyrinth question: What is the key to belonging–biology or ideology?