For drama you must have a protagonist who wants/needs
something desperately. Something must be at stake. You need growing
difficulties. Time restraints are good for added tension.  Good unless you’re the protagonist and
this is your  life.

Drama is what happened to me yesterday when I
asked R. where he had put my passport and he said he didn’t have it, he had
given it to me when it was returned with the Indian visa six weeks ago. But I
thought I’d given it back to him to keep with the travel papers. Both of us
even have special little drawers where we keep vital stuff like, well,
passports.

In nine days we leave for India.

We tear the house apart. We check every
pocket in everything we’ve worn for the past six weeks, we go through every
drawer in our offices, the bedroom, closets, look under every piece of
furniture. Nothing is left unturned or unexamined. 

We never find it. This morning I call an
agency that expedites passports and visas. (re: growing difficulties – I didn’t
take the original of my birth certificate to their office, etc. etc.) But if all goes well a
new passport and visa will arrive two days before our departure. (For the cost
of what I once paid for my first car.)