More Housekeeping

Willie brought up two points that kept me awake last night. I get manic during 'setting the stage' mode, so brace yourselves.
First, the time between a death and a funeral. How will we be notified, make travel plans, get there, etc. It can be done, but my road trip idea doesn't work if it's more than a few hundred miles or so.

And then the overlap between emails and the blog. I'm with Willie. Anything more than a quick question, let's do it in here. Not that the finished product won't be itself interesting, but the fact that six people who have never actually met are writing, live on a blog, about six people who have never actually met, is interesting. So I promise, no more long emails. I'll put it all here.

Willie,
I was also thinking last night that one of us will be the dead guy. I was trying to figure out how he would have dialogue. We could do one of two things, we could do voice overs with words he said in his posts, or we could do flashbacks. I guess we could do both. But I like him being a character.

I also thought it would be interesting if it turns out he died of a long-term illness, so we all learn that all the while he was uplifting and inspiring people on the blog, he knew he was dying. If we went with the idea that one of the women attending really thought 'they'd had something special,' that would be interesting to see her react to him never telling her.

I love the mother critique of her son's weight after his death. That's good stuff.

I agree that we have to make it plausible that the 5 would come. But is it just me and my impetuous nature that I really do think I would go if this happened? Regardless, we can establish credibility. A wealthy poster who can fly. A few who live close enough for a day trip in the car. I still like the idea of one of the characters coming for personal gain of some sort. Curiosity about maybe meeting JP. Maybe a character that was banned at some point but still follows along and learns of the gathering. That could be interesting. And scary!

More later.

Jen