Summary

Act Two opens with small descriptions of the Four of Cups, the Ten of Swords, and the Tower. Washuta says that the beginning of a narrative is easy, but the middle needs more action and obstacles. Act two should end with the protagonist at the lowest level. This book has an arc but the tension is focused on what happened when she wrote it. She describes the scientific method and that an experiment is narrative. Washuta says this is the point where she makes a mess.

"White City" opens with the same quotes from the previous essays. Washuta says she saw her future self during her bus ride home. She lived in Madison Park for five years and once remembers when she refused to swim on the hottest day in Seattle. She was afraid of something in the water and, instead...