Andrew vs. The Collective
A Fiction project in San Francisco, CA by Andrew Fitzgerald ·
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Update #6: Story #3 – Send me your input!
Posted on February 17, 2010
I want to try something a little different with this story. I know no one has submitted any ideas yet, but I already know what I want to write about. I even know what the title is going to be. The story will be called “Search Engine Optimization” and it’s going to be all about the Internet. I’m going to weave every single internet person, internet meme, and internet product I can into this thing. Why? Well as the name suggests, to attract as much internet attention as possible!
So here’s what you can do. Two options:
Option #1: Help me out! Send me your character, sentence, setting or word based on what you love most on the internet or would most like to see written into this story.
Option #2: Admit it, you’re a Luddite, you hate the Internet! You can go the totally opposite direction and still try to stump me. I’ve tipped my hand this time, this might be your chance to really stick it to me.
As always, submissions are due by Friday at Noon PST. Looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with!
(Also, if you haven't read Story #2 yet, go check it out!)
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CHALLENGER: You get to submit one adjective per story. // You'll receive: You get to follow along with the project with all of the emails and digital PDFs backers receive. (But that's it. No novel.)
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ENEMY: You get to submit a character. Give me a name and as much or as little of a description as you want. (You can have some fun with this one: Your friends or family, historical figures, even yourself!) // You'll receive: Emails and PDFs and the signed copy of The Collective.
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NEMESIS: You get to submit a setting in which some of the action has to take place. As with the character you can give me as much or as little as you want. // You'll receive: Everything above AND (here's the big one) a signed printed book of the six stories making up Andrew vs. The Collective! I'm not planning on making this one available for sale - so this will be a very rare commodity (that you helped to write!).
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I'm a media-creator and journalist. I've been trying to write novels since I was five years old (Hardy Boys: Case of the Pirate Treasure) but I just finished my very first one (The Collective). When I'm not excitedly hammering out first drafts or slogging through re-writes, I do online news for San Francisco-based Current TV.
Setting: A failed tweet being sent on a rock climbing wall
sub 140 character sentance:
On stage now, Death-Karoke Showdown: @jkottke vs @NicholasKristof vs @ricksanchezCnn vs #web2hos vs @scobleizer vs @mrskutcheR
Sent these (on time!) via email, but posting here as well... I like being able to read as many of your marching orders as possible alongside the stories!
Character: Phaille, a whale who-- from her home (Sea World)-- controls the vast squadron of spiders and silkworms who weave the World Wide Web, as well as the naked mole rats who dig the series of tubes that serve as the Internet's other key element. [note: there can be other critters/creepy crawlies involved-- crickets who help convey messages between Phaille and her laborers? Monkeys blindly striking away at keyboards in a lab (located deep within in the Condé Nast Building?)] Phaille is coping with the fact that one group or another goes on strike at least once a day-- sometimes once an hour.
Sentence: Even her grade school journals had been written under the assumption that they would someday be read, someday be considered Vital to the Progression of History, so it should come as no surprise that now that she had written so many blogs under the guise of so many alter egos, she feared for her future archivists and biographers-- not to mention the fate of humanity in general.