another way of looking at it

Willie, once again,

Maybe this picture is the Wizard of Oz. If ever a whiz of a wiz there was, Peterman is, because because...

I think we are well served by discussing the various avenues that might bring our pilgrims together. There are good reasons for a picnic and good reasons for a funeral. In some ways, we don't have to decide, or our decision doesn't always matter. To first expose the character, we don't need to know. AND, once the characters DO meet, how and why is less important than what they do while they are together. But that middle, the part where we are deciding how much we need to know about various characters- like if we want him to shoot somebody, we have to give him the gun in advance- THAT certainly colors the other parts.

So, a Vote? a debate? right now we can afford to throw around ideas that may not survive, like the Honor Roll checks or the gay brother. This may be like setting the table with forks and spoons that won't be used, or it may be like going ahead and getting a few extra napkins.

So , who likes what and why? Is our theme the relationships between posters, or do we all really want to see Oz? Is the face to face the real thing or is that just the logical extension of the posts? What about the much discussed I Katz? Is he the glue or the wood?

Me, I talk too much, but I like the idea of enough relating before the meeting that the hook has been set- seeing each other face to face already HAS to work because these people, well, they love each other already. It may not be kiss kiss love, but it is deep attachment. It may include longing that won't work out or it may be just what Ig never had the chance to enjoy - a relationship built on other attractions than the physical that culminates In the physical, because they are too far gone to care about looks by now.

And any man who meets a woman he is already in love with and DOESN'T SAY "You are much prettier than I thought or wished or had any right to hope for..." well, that man deserves to go home alone. Even if he says it to all three women.

Isn't this the pitch?
Five or six people meet online and are drawn together first by their love for the community, then thrown together by circumstances and they have a good time.


Do you reckon that's it? So we have to make that first bond and its sources obvious, then think of a force to create the second bond, then come up with some way to make the two bonds either work together or at least not negate each other. And then we have to do something to let it end.

Cause let's face it, drawing the lines between chapters is half of the battle,.

I may not have told everybody but I am a lawyer, a criminal defense lawyer. A smarter guy than I am said that any story of an assault is really a story of self-defense. You just have to know where to start the story.

And where to start and end the story determines whether it is a story of anticipating something, the story of getting what you worked hard for, the story of being disappointed when your life didn't change after you got the thing you worked so hard for, or what. Will our six people climb the mountain and attain enlightenment? Will they all reach decisions? Will they get lucky? I suggest that we need to figure out what will make us say "My character ended up in a good place"

I talk too much, but who likes what and why and what is your character's ideal end-place?
To bow and to bend, we shan't be ashamed. To turn, turn will be our delight, til by turning turning, we come down right.