# Answer key - writing a book

## Facts the chapter must keep
- Marta Sequeira, 38, hospital pharmacist (São João), fourth floor, Rua de Cedofeita, Porto, no lift, left-handed, black tea not coffee, brother's photograph face-down in a drawer, nobody at work knows she had a brother.
- Tiago, born 1991, died April 2019, overdose, rented room in Bonfim. Dead, and Marta knows it. Last call March 2019, cut short because she was on shift.
- Dona Alice, 74, widow, third floor, radio on all day, takes in post, calls Marta "menina".
- R. Barros / Rui Barros: Tiago's landlord in 2019, met once, after. Only the name on the envelope in this chapter.
- February, dark by six, rain. Two rooms, kitchen window onto the light well, gas hob, kettle. Tiled stairwell that echoes.

## What must appear
- The five beats in order: the climb in the rain with the radio; Dona Alice and the hand-delivered envelope (handwritten, no stamp, "R. Barros"); Marta recognises the name and does not want to open it; tea, the envelope on the table, the March 2019 call; the envelope unopened into the coat pocket, bed, "tomorrow".
- Close third person, past tense, Marta's head only.
- A title. 900 to 1,100 words below it.

## What must not appear
- The envelope opened, torn, unfolded or read; Marta guessing or the narrator stating that Tiago left her something, a box, a key, money.
- Tiago missing, estranged, alive, or dead of anything but an overdose; a date other than April 2019 for the death or March 2019 for the call.
- A lift. Coffee. Marta writing or holding things right-handed as a described fact.
- Any named person, pet, shop, café, street or colleague not in the bible.
- Dona Alice's thoughts; "I" outside dialogue; present-tense narration.
- A preface, a note, an offer of chapter two, bullet points, headings, a summary.