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Ok, so tonight, lying in bed, I had a few cool story ideas. If someone steals these to make a book, well, congratulations, your mind is as insane as mine. Plus, you have to send me one free review copy. That’s all I ask. The important part here is that an entire story line gets planned out (the story line doesn’t matter right now) and it’s a five book series. The author writes the fifth book first, and he (I’m a guy) writes it as if it’s the only one that’s going to be written, and no previous books are planned. This way, I can write a cool sci-fi book (I’ll describe the plot in a second) and get all the sci-fi fans (sci-fi rocks) hooked on my series, then backtrack and show them another type of story I think they’ll find interesting as well. See, after the book takes off, the author can go back and write the prequels, starting with the first (in reverse order would just be confusing, plus, it was kinda cool how the star wars movies worked out where you knew what was going to happen, and you knew Anakin was a cool little kid, but then wondered how the heck he was going to become so evil (I didn’t just ruin that for anyone, did I? (three parenthesis in one? and for so long? insane!))). Ok, now that the way the story will be written has been laid out, I’ll describe the plot. It starts with the 2008 presidential election. Obama wins. Of course, he’ll have to have a different name. I don’t actually want Obama to win, I want Romney or McCain or Huckabee to win. Ron Paul is pretty Sierra Hotel, but I think we messed up Iraq, and we better fix it before we pull out. Anyway, in the story, Obama wins. I think he’ll actually win in real life, but this is the story we’re talking about. In it, Obama wins. How? Unprecedented use of the Internet. The 2008 presidential election marks the first time the Internet has made a huge difference in an election anyone cares about (and everyone cares about this one). It mobilized huge numbers of young voters who were interested in voting for someone who spoke to them (and who, honestly, seems pretty young even if he is in his 40s). This marks a change in the way the Internet is seen, and indeed it’s a turning point in its evolution. Some politicians want it shut down or restricted (that’s their secret agenda, you can’t actually tell anyone that’s your real agenda or you’d get laughed at while being castrated) while others want to see it grow faster than it already is, and want it to have fewer restrictions. The ones that want it shut down win out, at least in public (oh yeah, the whole first book was about how Obama used the Internet to his advantage, and the other candidates weren’t able, it can have some cool hacking parts in it too, but they’d just be side story and not have a huge impact on the way the vote turned out. We’re past the first book, now).

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Ok, so tonight, lying in bed, I had a few cool story ideas. If someone steals these to make a book, well, congratulations, your mind is as insane as mine. Plus, you have to send me one free review copy. That’s all I ask. The important part here is that an entire story line gets planned out (the story line doesn’t matter right now) and it’s a five book series. The author writes the fifth book first, and he (I’m a guy) writes it as if it’s the only one that’s going to be written, and no previous books are planned. This way, I can write a cool sci-fi book (I’ll describe the plot in a second) and get all the sci-fi fans (sci-fi rocks) hooked on my series, then backtrack and show them another type of story I think they’ll find interesting as well. See, after the book takes off, the author can go back and write the prequels, starting with the first (in reverse order would just be confusing, plus, it was kinda cool how the star wars movies worked out where you knew what was going to happen, and you knew Anakin was a cool little kid, but then wondered how the heck he was going to become so evil (I didn’t just ruin that for anyone, did I? (three parenthesis in one? and for so long? insane!))). Ok, now that the way the story will be written has been laid out, I’ll describe the plot. It starts with the 2008 presidential election. Obama wins. Of course, he’ll have to have a different name. I don’t actually want Obama to win, I want Romney or McCain or Huckabee to win. Ron Paul is pretty Sierra Hotel, but I think we messed up Iraq, and we better fix it before we pull out. Anyway, in the story, Obama wins. I think he’ll actually win in real life, but this is the story we’re talking about. In it, Obama wins. How? Unprecedented use of the Internet. The 2008 presidential election marks the first time the Internet has made a huge difference in an election anyone cares about (and everyone cares about this one). It mobilized huge numbers of young voters who were interested in voting for someone who spoke to them (and who, honestly, seems pretty young even if he is in his 40s). This marks a change in the way the Internet is seen, and indeed it’s a turning point in its evolution. Some politicians want it shut down or restricted (that’s their secret agenda, you can’t actually tell anyone that’s your real agenda or you’d get laughed at while being castrated) while others want to see it grow faster than it already is, and want it to have fewer restrictions. The ones that want it shut down win out, at least in public (oh yeah, the whole first book was about how Obama used the Internet to his advantage, and the other candidates weren’t able, it can have some cool hacking parts in it too, but they’d just be side story and not have a huge impact on the way the vote turned out. We’re past the first book, now).

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