Showing posts with label Meet Bill. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

"..."

An internet writing exercise I just thought of:

-Go to WikiQuote
-Click "random page"
-Paste the first quote on each page into a blank document, get about 3 or so
-Imagine the subject matter/story of the novel that these quotes could be an epigraph for.

Here are the ones that just came up for me:

"I got soul but I'm not a soldier "
- The Killers

"The limit to our growth is our ability to get the best talent on the planet and get them working on the toughest computing problems around."
-Wayne Rosing, Former Google VP of Engineering

"Wondering at your good fortune that all your children look like me?"
-Lancelot, King Arthur (2004)

So far as I can tell, this book would involve adultery, cockiness, overcoming cowardice, the internet, business expansion, trying to do really hard stuff. Maybe some cyberpunk would get mixed up in there too, I get the feeling that the novel would be like Neuromancer + Meet Bill. Sounds promising. I'll sell the idea to an agent and get a 99999999$ advance + movie tie-in rights, then start the much-awaited sequel, Son of Virtual Accountant Family Man Hero. Maybe make it a trilogy or quadrilogy.