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

[vejas]

In our school we have an Internet system called gradebookwizard, 
where you check grades.
The character's seatmate logs onto gradebook wizard, then gets up 
to go to the bathroom.  Your character then changes all the 
seatmate's grades (from 99 to 79, etc), and when the seatmate 
comes back, they'll freak out.
Just an idea.
Vejas


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Nat Barrett" <hawaiianstar at gmail.com
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 28 May 2012 21:39:43 -1000
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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