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

[Barbara Hammel]

I don't know logistics either but could the other person maybe not be as 
techie or very careless or oblivious to the fact that someone may try 
reading their screen from nearby?
Barbara




Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Nat Barrett
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 2:39 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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