Will's Good Idea for the Week of 10-15-17

We're thinking The Austrian Painter needs a new scene.

Right now, prepping for his overseas adventure, we describe the Austrian Painter's fancy digs in Munich, a mark of his success as an artist. This is of course the same apartment he owned in real life.

From there we segway into a trip abroad.

Problem is this seems contrived. It almost feels like we need a domestic scene in Munich, separate from this foreign adventure which would be re-spun as its own chapter. There seems to be a need to show the Austrian Painter hob-nobbing with Munich's elite. But would that be interesting?

We could describe some of the world, maybe get into the collapse of the Austrian Empire. Maybe he's there when it happens.

We'll see.