Setting up office. Thinking about characters, what their stories are.

Theme emerging: temptation. Each character either/both is tempted or tempts others (sometimes other of the characters, sometimes only those in his story, sometimes those in his job).

Nascent outline:
  1. Friday. Drive up to Bend. Introduce main premise, the weekend with college buddies hosted by one of them who’s rich. Meets a girl in Bend and has an erotic encounter.
  2. Saturday. Arrive in Chelan, meets three of the other men: Seth, Dusty and Bart. After the two others go to bed, Dusty tells a story.
  3. Sunday. Ferry ride up the lake: Hap witnesses a conversation between Dusty and Bart. Seth inside looking a little green.
    Arrival at dock. Doc and Greg there in an SUV.
    Arrival at cabin. Shaun is alone there.
    Dinner. General ribald atmosphere, no long story, but a lot of dirty talk.
  4. Monday.
    Hap glimpses Bianca early morning, no interaction.
    Golf. Continuation of ribald atmosphere. After match, mixed talk of business and sex. Perhaps a sort of power game here where choosing to talk about one means you can avoid the other.
    Evening: after dinner, Bart tells a story involving his online business.
  5. Tuesday.
    Another glimpse of Bianca, no interaction, but we get some explanation.
    Bart's additional details.
    Because he is competing for Don’s attention, Greg tells a story.
  6. Wednesday.
    This time, an actual short conversation with Bianca. Hap invites himself on a shopping trip with her, then discovers Seth has been taking her already (earlier in the week).
    Tension between Bart and Greg, and also between Shaun and Greg, between Dusty and Greg. No lone seems to like Greg much. But they all have to be nice to him for a reason.
    Hap tells a story tonight. Then in contrast to him, Shaun does as well.


In order to extend that, I'll need to know more about the conflicts and all.

Popular posts from this blog

Datamining your Twitter feed

Just as I predicted in How They Scored: Twitter is in advanced talks with Microsoft and Google separately about striking data-mining deals, in which the companies would license a full feed from the microblogging service that could then be integrated into the results of their competing search engines. -- Kara Swisher, All Things D
Read more
Yesterday I wrote about 2500 words as a backstory to Shaun... this morning I wrote another 2000, and I only now have just picked up Shaun. Most of that was a story about a girlfriend they shared, Robin. I modeled her on the real Robin I slept with only once or twice back in 1980 -- a cheerful blond girl who had not lost all her babyfat, whom I met doing contact improv. There was one memorable moment in my affair with her -- the moment I came inside her. Other than that, I remember walking her to her place over on Parnassus afterward, and running into her and her mother on a Muni bus some time later after we had mostly lost touch with each other, and trying to keep up a correspondence with her when she moved back to Washington, DC. She was someone I never really knew much about -- I don't know whether that was because she was rather young and unformed, or because I was too self-centered to pay attention. Probably a little of both. Anyway, I kept the blond cheerfulness, the blandness...
Read more

Why do people report on themselves?

Image
Not long after I started using Twitter, I started to wonder: Why? Imagine the familiar movie scenario where a detective is desperate to track and find a suspect, or where a detective is hired by a suspicious spouse to trail their errant husband or wife. Or an alternate scenario from the Cold War, where the secret police manipulate ordinary citizens to inform on one another (cf. the film The Lives of Others , pictured at left). Or the horrible situation of a controlling husband who wants to know where his wife is at every minute of the day. In those situations, one person wants to track another; the person who is tracked would rather not be tracked and sometimes would do anything to avoid it. Now consider yourself, or any ordinary bourgeois, and how much you are tracked on a daily (and sometimes minute-to-minute) basis. Credit card companies and credit reporting firms register every purchase you make with something other than cash. Airlines, grocery stores and other businesses with rew...
Read more