Andrew vs. The Collective
A Fiction project in San Francisco, CA by Andrew Fitzgerald ·
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Update #12: Story #6 will be epic
Posted on March 10, 2010
You're going to have to supply the details, but this is what I can promise you:
A young unassuming rural resident will be visited by a mysterious older gray-bearded man possessed of strange and unexplainable powers. Said resident will be told that the world as he/she knows it is in grave, grave danger and only he/she can save it. This will begin an epic journey that will culminate in the ultimate battle of good vs. evil.
Let's make this one a-maz-ing. Send in your submissions!
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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.
I'd love to see you drop a hashtag into this story. Any hashtag will suffice, but if you need one: #nowplaying.
CHARACTER: Elena is a woman who appears to be in her late 20s. A laid-back, lanky brunette. Actually, she's been alive for centuries. When she dies, she revives a few days later, fully intact, in a random spot and she can't die the same way ever again. While Elena is no longer afraid of death, she does find it pretty inconvenient. Her last revival landed her in Bratislava. She loves to travel and she's kind to children. Her favorite candy is Starburst, which she indulges with impunity ever since her once-rotting gums triggered a heart attack. Elena doesn't know it yet, but she's about to die again, thanks to a brain parasite she picked up from eating bad pork during a trip through Oaxaca, Mexico about a week ago.
I'll have the pasta rosa with the sauteed raisins and pine nuts.