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Created: 2020-01-08 16:33 Updated: 2020-01-08 16:40 Notebook: Notebook Stack/PB1099
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Alright, it is January 8th, 8.33 a.m. I'm passing St. Vincent Drive on my way to work and I've been listening to the Alexandria court TET and I've gotten to the point where the narrator, I can't believe I forgot his name but the teacher is writing a tram stop with Melissa and there was that one line, the very names of the tram stops echoed the poetry blah blah blah. I can't remember that but I can search the book for that line and I finally clicked in me how to keep pace and stay in sync with this theme from the very beginning where we just where the creative writing professor says you know if you don't, if your characters, if you don't know where your characters are at every minute, every second of the day, you don't know your characters, you don't have a good character, you haven't created a good model of a character. And so I'm going to kind of project that attitude and an effort in the story, especially when Rosa basically stalks Horace. She follows him the way Geese would follow another Geese or a bird, a crane would follow another crane but two birds together. He of course has no idea she's following him. She follows him all the way back to Houston and initially she follows him home to his apartment in Midland. Or she could follow him to the airport in Lubbock and get on a flight there. But it seems more, yeah, trying to decide if she, if he being someone who works in the oil industry would simply have a second car in Midland that he uses. Or would he, um, does he rent a car possibly? Yeah, he rents a car and then takes a flight back to Houston. But how does she find him again? She has to stay on the flight. And that is where she has to figure out where he's going. And how does she do that? I don't know. I have to think about that some more. But it's either that she stalks him because he's really her character. Or, yeah, again, we have to play with the subtleties as to whether or not Horace is real. And how can Rosa come to terms with a woman going all the way to Egypt? And in fact, the movie, I mean, not the movie, the book should end somewhere in Egypt. Maybe she has a, if she really does buy a one-way ticket or not, does she get in trouble in somewhere? What would happen? What would happen? I have to think about that. Is she really hopping from Airbnb to Airbnb? How is the projected Horace actually helping her? I have to think about that. Well, in one way, we could think about it is that she actually takes, you know, she's on a tour. She's not just backpacking through Egypt, that it's very difficult. I mean, does she have a good street sense about her? Does she have enough money? How does she make sure that men don't, you know, men treat her with respect? In some ways, we could say that she has a manly look about her, but I don't know if that's good enough. Let me think about it some more. Done.

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