new story notes

Funny, time and circumstance and fate how it all shakes up, fairly or not. Anyway, i was listening to Howard stern on my way to work this morning, a show from 2009 and i just kept thinking and remembering who i was and what i was searching for in 2009. I couldn't shake the memories so here i am just getting it off my chest. Ok now where's my ladder?  April 2009 through October 2009... November 2009 through December 2011....In medias res, told through a woman character or omnipotent narrator to see more than the confines of one character......So opens with him explaining the shittiness of his life through details in real time and space and hes at the height of his anger and his drunkenness and then thinks, it wasn't always like this

might as well keep everything together. well due to personal stuff I have going on I won't be actively writing this new story until after the new year but I am thinking about it and taking notes and free forming ideas until then. ill keep that here so if I'm struck with idea or ideas I can just go on my phone wherever I am and write it down lest I forget....

so I'm not sure if I want to have a main character who is a despicable character who finds his way, much like the Grinch and turns around... or just a sad character who falls in love and is happy again only to be left behind by her and now sad once again... like is this going to be some form of love story or not... even though i used the security guard character in a short story already I think because I know it so well and there's a lot of room for me to explore more with it, I think this character will be an overnight security guard. I can develop that even more and it lends itself to any story really well... overnight grocery clerk or warehouse worker or electrician just doesn't do it, I think. Overnight is key element to story and overnight security who roams huge empty financial institutions leaves even more room to explore... is character married, single, divorced... children... younger or older... married but having an affair with another married person? Single but having an affair w a married person? or married... and having multiple affairs, kind of like a secret life... this could work but might be difficult to make believable... or take any romance or affairs out of it. maybe he has an adventure? ive often talked about using the old Facebook heavily in a story like this... obviously, my time frame is before Tinder and such... actually maybe even before Facebook when men and women wanted to hook up they went to bars... alcohol is going to be a huge factor, maybe drugs. not sure about violence yet..I guess what I should do first is draw up a preliminary sketch of the main character and give him a face and history and go from there... so many questions to think about. Thinking cap on. 

if he's married and having multiple affairs he would have to be separated, living in his own place in order to carry on with multiple partners... or he would have to invent some sort of phony business to tell his wife 'oh yeah, I'm going away on business for a day or two.' or... he could be hosting little parties at his work because as an overnight security officer, he has keys and access to almost entire empty building and so he could carry on in an office or closet or entire floor haha now that would be cool.  Or his "guys night out" or "golfing weekends" or "poker nights" could actually be rendezvous'. ok now da ideas be a flowin....