Posted by Jost on September 6, 2006, at 23:33:12
In reply to Re: {Pow!} Let's Make A Deal » Racer, posted by Poet on September 4, 2006, at 17:57:11
Okay:
Two people who live near one another, although they don't know it, become friends on a psychology message board.Here are two plot ideas:
One: they correspond on the Message board , revealing increasingly intimate details of their lives, etc, and interacting with some other characters on the message boards. Meanwhile their lives go through career disappointments and re-structuring, and the vicissitudes of living with husbands, cats, a meeting with a difficult, but inspiring math teacher who initially is skeptical of the student's aspirations, but who, as a deep thinker and spirit, takes the student under her wing, on trips to Europe (or Canada, or wherever) and adopting her as a spiritual "goddaughter."
There is some sort of sexual tension, but neither teacher or student pursues it, except the student, after doing brilliant work, and moving through struggles about ambition and risk, finally leaves to pursue a graduate education in Math.
Meanwhile our other heroine, initially, dejected by her career failures, and the discouragements of various headhunters, realizes that her true life vocation is as a healer ,and poet. She writes a book of poetry about her infatuation with her online friend, whom she calls her "Light Woman." It is a difficult book of lyric invention, but startles the poetry world, with its inventive wordplay and golden-tongued odic structure.
Suddenly, the two meet, on the plane where one is travelling to her new graduate future, and the other is on a book tour to read a the 92nd st. Y in New York.....
(or you could go for a darker plot/ending, but maybe not...)
There's another plot, but it's a bit more exotic.
Jost
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