Day Six

God: Wild at Heart has taken a huge turn in the bold department. This chapter has made a few statements that would turn some heads in a church. The authors states that men like beautiful women more for validation of themselves than for the physical aspects of her body. Also, that women like a guy they can tame, but once they are tamed, the passion disappears. My question then becomes, "What if the guy is already tamed?" I'm not saying that my life is completely tamed, but I do think that I've got my 'checkers lined up.' So where does that leave me? Is that an unattractive quality? To me, it's like the same thing in the writing world. No one wants to read a book by a guy who has it together. They want to read about the single mom who was a prostitute and a drug addict. Her story will sell and she'll be the one writing the book. Just ask James Frey. But I accept that. No one wants to be with someone they just 'get' right away. That's why we don't date with our resumes.

Writing: Struggled to finish Chapter 16. I mapped out the rest of the novel in my mind. I've got ten more chapters to go. That should leave me at about 50K words or so. Sadly, that's more than my master's project.

Magic: Getting more interested in making balloon animals. Need to practice though.

Fish: So I think the fish are stabilizing, finally. No recent deaths, although one of the snails seems to have pulled a Houdini on me and disappeared. I'm sure it will show up.