Andrew vs. The Collective
A Fiction project in San Francisco, CA by Andrew Fitzgerald ·
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Update #8: Story #4 - It's that time!
Posted on February 24, 2010
Hey all - Story #3 is out there and it seems to be making the rounds. It's already gotten 10 times the number of views than the first one. Great work, Collective!
So what are we going to do with Story #4? I don't have a big high concept idea for this one like the last two - but the manner of its composition will be a challenge in itself. This Thursday evening I'll be getting on the red-eye to go to Massachusetts for the weekend. Our fourth story will be a tale-in-transit.
As always, send me your submissions. Make them villainous.
But this time, also send me your ideas about what to do both inside and even outside of the story to make this one a different experience.
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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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ADVERSARY: You get to submit one noun per story. // You'll receive: All the emails and digital PDFs AND a copy of my very first novel The Collective.
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FOE: You get to submit one sentence per story. (Think about the power you'll wield!) // You'll receive: Emails and PDFs, obviously. And I will mail you a SIGNED copy of my book.
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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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EVIL DOPPLEGANGER: Send me an email. No, seriously. You can give me any direction you want. Anything you can come up with. Just send me an email. // You'll receive: Everything above and I will include your name in the acknowledgments of The Collective as you are truly a giving benefactor for my writing career.
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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.
CHARACTER: Eli Jørgensen is the left half of a pair of conjoined twins. He designs roller coasters but has never actually ridden one due to his physical condition. He can't even go to the theme parks where his better roller coasters are displayed, because people tend to assume he is there for a freak show and protest out of political correctness.
Since I excel at procrastinating and breaking rules, I'd like to submit 3 adjectives for this story, to make up for the ones I failed to submit the last 2 stories. Do what you will. Here goes. TUMULTUOUS. ASTRONOMICAL. ERINACEOUS. Can you use all in one sentence? Come on. I'm pretty sure you can. Ain't nothing to it but to do it!
@Dan: A costume eight months in the making? That's going to be epic. You'll have to find some way to share pix with the Collective ...
@Jayson: I'm flattered, especially since when I read yours I could think of nothing cooler. this.thrustEmergencyKill(thrusterPID); for the second time, indeed!