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Comment on Ask HN: Burning idea for a story you've always wanted written?

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A book about a guy who crowdsources idea for a book, and ultimately decides that the story will be about a guy crowdsourcing ideas for a book.

Repeat indefinitely.

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Alternatively, outsource several trillion monkeys to type apparently random characters until you are left with a work that is more intelligent than Huxley, more potent than Shakespeare, and wittier than Stephen Fry.

Write it in the second person about the reader, who is crowdfunding said book, a la "If on a winter's night a traveler".

This just stepped up to a whole new level.

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