so.... let's outline a plot, building on a conspiracy theory. (Much more fun than a Covid diary).
So here's the basic premise:
A not very ethical but highly successful thriller writer - let's call him Tom, is unhappily married to a research scientist (more ethical than him, let's call her... Dr Jade.)
Tom's career is taking a nose dive. He knows the formula for writing his kind of thriller, but he's lazy and has expensive tastes, and is difficult to work with. His publisher has dropped him.
One day he discovers by chance that his wife's laboratory (COV labs) has created a virus that could wipe out the world. Not good. Tom is at high risk because he's old and fat and drinks and eats too much and smokes cigars and never exercises. He doesn't want to die. He wants to write a bestseller that earns him enough to retire to Hawaii.
(his goal.) What he needs though is to grow up and stop believing the world owes him a living.)
If the virus gets free, there goes his readership.
Okay, so that's our situation when the story opens. Lazy writer Tom, Dr Jade and the virus.
So now we need an inciting incident. Something to set off the story.
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