[stylist] Need some help. I want my character to do this...

[Justin.Williams2]

Your character gets up to go to the bathroom, or to re-fill his
drink/coffee, and just happens to glance over.  Remember, you are in control
of the situation, and in stories, one in every blue moon events happen.  How
many times do you hear about things on the news that are improbable?

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From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Nat Barrett
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:40 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: [stylist] Need some help. I want my character to do this...


Stylist friends,

I need some help. I'm trying to write a short story and I'd like my
character to become involved in a situation. The problem is, I don't know if
it's possible.

The situation is quite easy to describe, so I'll get straight to it.

I have my character using a public wi-fi spot. Due to all the warnings that
you get about using wi-fi and how people can hijack you and see what you're
doing, I kind of thought, hmm. Maybe my character can inadvertently see what
the person sitting at the next table is doing on their computer. And I don't
mean with their eyes. I was thinking from computer to computer.

I only need this character to see a bit of the webpage this other person is
using.

So far I've found nothing on the internet that talks about this. And another
friend heard what I wanted my character to do and immediately said, not
possible, unless my character is trying to deliberately hijack the other
person.

At this point, I'm thinking I might just have to do ordinary, cliché ways
and have my character just look with their eyes at the other person's
computer. Of course, my friend also vetoed this idea, saying that with flat
screens and being able to turn your screen off, it'll be hard to see
people's screens and what they're doing.

Stylist friends, do any of you have suggestions? I'm even open to ideas.
It's important to my whole story that my main character see something on
this other person's computer. But I'm kind of fresh out of ideas, different
or old.

I even contemplated these characters having identical computers and they
accidentally get switched.

Or, I thought, maybe a  public computer. But the setting of this story is
nowhere near a place that would have public computers.

Sigh.

Anyway, that's pretty much it. If anyone can offer up some suggestions, I'd
be most grateful.

I'll say thanks in advance.
Natalie
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