A Novel Idea

Reader beware: this is a failed idea. One time I tried to start National Novel Writing Month and I wrote for 20 minutes and then wanted to murder my brain. And then I got an idea (this failed idea) to get everyone to slowly contribute to a book, one chapter at a time, and then when we were done we could make money by printing it at Kinko's and selling it to each other. I wrote some stupid stuff, then some other people wrote some stupid stuff, and then we all ignored it because it was terrible. Capisce?

A Tale of Twenty-Two Heads

Submitted by Marcus on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 15:15

A young boy was walking down the path one day.

He came upon a bean.

He planted the bean.

The bean grew.

He climbed up the bean and into the clouds.

There he was given twenty-two heads.

Chapter 23: The Beginning Was Near

Submitted by JQuist on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 01:28

And so it begun...

And begun it did so nearly...

But as it was nearly begunning...

We realized it had already begun.

 

 

Chapter 4: A list of names I thought of (from most plausible to least plausible)

Submitted by M Sly on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 03:24

Miles Unger
Stan Carlsbad
Peter Hunt
Steve Walker
Brad Jennings
Mike Grass
Harvey Jenner
Craig Storeyard
Reggie Van Hoeuf
Leonard Munt
Barry Train
Ivan Goti
Vick Nutterly
Greg Fifenheimer
Walter Poleton
Xavier Bolognese
Jack Bienstock
Uncle Grandpa

Chapter 3: An Entirely New (non-retarded) Story

Submitted by M Sly on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 03:20
 

That last story is an example of what the whole book would have been like if I tried to write a real novel.  I know nothing about literature, have no story in mind, and generally am incompetent when it comes to sentence structure and vocabulary.  Yet I trudge on?

Chapter 2: Matt writes a short story

Submitted by M Sly on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 03:16
I told myself I wasn't going to write a novel this year.  Two days into last year's novel, I developed a sort of writer's block that they don't tell you about in the movies.  There I was, sitting in Noah's basement, hot laptop slowly irradiating all of my organs as I typed a word, deleted a word.  Typed a word, deleted a word.  Deleted the word before it. Deleted the whole sentence.  Typed a word.  I understand that sometimes you have to take two steps back to take three steps forward, but after half an hour I had walked backward so far that I could see myself coming from the other direction.  And not in the good quantum physics sort of way.

So it is with much chagrin that I sit here slowly melting all of my future children, doing my best to walk sideways, if not forward.

 

Let's Write a Book!

Submitted by M Sly on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 17:32

I  knew there was something brilliant I was supposed to do this month.......

Let's write a book!  If we all pitch in and write a few segments of it, it will be fucking awesome, and we can get it published at Kinko's and sell it on the site.  Who doesn't want to be a part of something like that?  

This all stemmed out of National Novel Writing Month (this month) last year, when Nathan and I were going to write a book and didn't.  Now its this month again, but I think if we put our minds together we can really write a kickass thing that will be fun for everyone to look back on.  Also it could spread the word about the site.  It doesn't have to be much, just a lot of short bullshit that we can put together however we want.  Here's a segment of what I've done so far, for those of you who are saying, "we can't write a book!"