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

[The Crowd]

He'd have to hack the other computer which is not impossible but certainly 
not something just anyone could do. Maybe a special ops guy or something. 
Glancing over might work sure, if the person isn't aware of it. Or maybe the 
person has in ear phones and the protag hears something, a tiny little voice 
coming from the guys earphones.  Or the person is using a magnifier which 
would make it easier to see. Heck, I don't know, just some suggestions. I 
have quite an imagination. LOL


If it is like Starbucks then he can walk behind the person and glance at 
their screen too.

Atty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nat Barrett" <hawaiianstar at gmail.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 2:39 AM
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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