So I have a few book ideas that sound cool, but I doubt I'll ever write.
Leadership Lessons from the Bottom of the Ladder
Do you guys have some?
Lets see, I have a few. Note my bias having came from the RPG Maker community:
Tales Of Destiny 20,000
Quest Of The Four Ruins Thrones 7
Tales Of The Peasant Warrior 23
Destiny Of The Dark Knight
A Spaceship And Its Dark Knight
Again there is a reason my titles tend to be more like: Blood Of Katolinio, Jonah NumeroHex, or recently Home From The Corn Maze (a children's horror flash fiction.)
My most trite sounding is Eternity Of The Night, which is a flash fiction version of such poetry as known to reverse in on itself: I am a dragon born to burn a town of whicker wood born to burn a dragon, I am.
Kind of a way of fighting back against trite or cliche titles from the RPG Maker community.
Lessons... Bottom... Ladder might be the best unwritten book idea I've ever heard.
Flesh and Metal Legacy
Rabbi Sanjeev and the Periwinkle Valise of Intrigue
The Pop-Up Book of Inappropriate Erections
For real, though, NV (get it: Envy?) was to be my next book before I opted for an album instead. Set in Nevada, obvi.
You could call it eNVy, exactly?
Also, PM me I'll give you the NV inside scoop from a guy who's been around the state... but doesn't like to get out too much.
Even more clever. I've visited maybe ten times, but never lived there. The guy who sits next to me at work is from there, and pretty hardcore Mormon, which I find amusing.
Eh, it's "Sin City" if you visit. If you live there it's just a rather flavorless town (Reno/Vegas anyway) where you stop noticing the mostly unused slot machines in 7-11s. And if you grow up there, the concept of a "liquor store" is confusing for a while.
Oh! I have one... Super Noirio.
I had this idea to make a hard boiled, ostensibly serious detective/PI story involving Mario characters. Toadstool and Luigi could be having an affair behind Mario's back, Bowser would be a drug kingpin (the koopas, of course), possibly in a turf war with the Kongs (Asian triad gang moving in?)... Maybe Mario has some kind of side kick he calls Toad who's Toadstool's nephew or whatever. Maybe he could save the little Toad from a drive-by and Toad could say "thanks Mario, but your princess is in another car" or something.
You'll notice I don't call the princess "Peach." I'm old school, and I hate that ridiculous name.
At some point Mario could throw Molotov cocktails, his motorcycle would be a Japanese import, Yoshi brand, Bowser (who has a strange affinity for venus fly traps) would keep an axe in his office for intimidation that Mario would somehow use to foil him in the end... And if possible, work in an accidental shroom trip in which Mario thinks he's a giant and invades the sewers.
But there's just no way to use all those characters without owing Nintendo all my profits. And I'm not in this to do things for free.
Ladder thing makes me think of Dilbert.
Noirio might sell. If you changed all the names to something punny like that, and didn't include any derivative images, you could maybe claim parody a la MAD Magazine. (<---- This isn't legal advice or counsel, blah blah, etc.)
I thought about it, not sure where the line is drawn with parody and so on. But if the thing wasn't obvious enough, it'd kind of defeat the purpose.
Sooo... anyone around here a lawyer?
I'd read it. Or cowrite it with you.
Is what a video who's done?
The Girl Who Rode the Metro Who Was On Fire.
Sure to be an instant best-seller if buzz words are any indication.
^ I was going to suggest changing the second "who" to "that"
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