[Writingworkshop] Full Birther

[Neale Morison]

I love the POV idea. Unreliable narrators have a great appeal to me,
being one myself. It sounds like you need a few other POVs in there,
as you dabble in the minds of the unwashed and seriously unthoughtful.

Go for it, Daniel. I don't think you can overdo the madness.

Neale

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Daniel Peters <danieltpeters at gmail.com> wrote:
> These days you can't even say "I found the place", because it finds you,
> literally.  If it isn't a context ad or a link a friend shared its clever
> spam in my inbox, anyway you look at it, the line where your agency ends and
> their profit begins is creeping closer to you every second.  But that's
> really only part of it, the real story, for me at least, is the bait itself,
> the pics and headlines that work the actual magic.  That's why they hired
> me.  I'm damn good at it.  I know what you think you want to know.
>
>
> ###
> I see the birther thing going away soon(I hope, sweet god), and I've wanted
> to write about it almost the whole time.  With the release of the long form
> birth certificate I'm thinking that this whole madness is probably going to
> end  and I'd love to take a shot at it while the iron is somewhat hot.
> that, and I've recently discovered the Amazon self publishing via kindle
> platform.  I'd like to throw something on there sooner than later, despite
> the DRM.
> The story is told from the point of view of a recent hire to a new
> fringe-right news site, the new hire is responsible for finding bits of life
> and spinning them into the paranoid fantasies that sell to the most
> racist/homophobic/fanatically-religious of the american right.  If I tell it
> from the cynical viewpoint of a new blogger at this young news site, the
> story arc can progress from him being Birther curious to Full Birther, with
> the meat of the story being the madness he inflicts on the unwashed that
> visit this site everyday.
> Thoughts?
> ###
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