Will has made excellent progress on his parallel plot for To Build a Fire. He stated that he modernized the story in the same way that the filmmakers set The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in contemporary times although the original story was set during World War II. Wow! Great idea! Instead of moccasins and mittens, Will's characters have snowmobiles and Gore-Tex. Instead of being a gold miner, Will's main character is a biologist from Northwestern University, conducting research on climate change. His homework is to finish the story and bring the main character to the final destination, "the old claim on the left fork of Henderson Creek, where the boys are already."