Very noir, I enjoyed it. Miss Barbosa seems to be making the rounds in your work.
Thanks, I'm glad you caught that! I have a hard time coming up with new characters. That reminds me, I had an idea for something we could do for #storyclub. I think the ongoing discussion of part 1 of 2666 jogged my memory a bit too. I'm eager to see the current "Caribou" story shape up, but what if we got people to collaborate on creating characters? We could even have different groups of people working on characters, fleshing them out first before dropping them in a setting with a conflict and then creating the story together from there. We could even use the existing characters in the Caribou story as a way of figuring out where the story inevitably goes. I think it might be a good opportunity for us to stretch writing skills and to learn about looking at things differently. Anyway, it's an idea. Let me know if you think it's something that might add to #storyclub.
That sounds like fun. I have zero writing training, but I would participate. It'd be your baby though. Maybe after 2666? Hubski should be fun and when you get too many "responsibilities" it can loose that aspect. Word to the wise.
Haha, not looking for responsibility for anyone, just thought it might be a way to include more people at the same time. Writing can get pretty technical, but people that write like that tend to enjoy writing that way. Maybe I'll see how it goes, but scaled very small.
I meant responsibility for you. These things take shepherding as you have no doubt found from the shortstoryclub and the book club.