One thing I *can* do at work

Research. There are too many interruptions to get any writing done, but I can look shit up on the internet.

I've been trying to figure out a story about the ghost stations in Berlin, and I think I have. It's about a Turkish girl, whose father brought her & her mother & her siblings there in 198570 after he saved enough money. She can see ghosts. It's also a story about the history of public transit, the U-bahn and S-bahn, and DB, in Berlin. I think it has a plot, even.

With this story, I'm trying something new and exciting: having a story arc mapped out before I sit down to write. I know, crazy. Everything I've written so far, fanfic, the draft of Nothing Beside, "A Game of Empire," has been written starting with an idea. I've been meaning to meta on my writing habits, so be warned. ( Here's some meta. )