Heh...those are a bit dramatic. But something like that, I guess! Either that or I just skip ahead...it's a journal, after all. Rather than drag things out day by day, I could have her not write for a month or so and then do a lot of catching up. Maybe.
I thought about having her car break down and the nice guy coming to the rescue, but I've already had a lot of coincidences happen in the last few days of her life...too many already. Couldn't add yet another without it being nothing short of ridiculous.
Yes, I finished chapter one of your story...
That could work. Or you could give her a cold and let her ramble on in a cold-med induced state for pages and pages and pages. Or... lessee... she could win the lottery or... join an internet board and lose all social life...