Books you'd write

[xNTP]

So I was thinking today... if you had to write a book, what would the title be, and what would it be about, if...

1. You had to write a book RIGHT NOW and publish it within a year?
2. You had to write a book over your lifetime, to be published in 40 years?

[xNTP]

1. "The Power of SOON" - If I had to write a book right now, it would be about Zen and Humor, merging social psychology, neuroscience, and positive psychology with INTP humor. Not sold on the title yet.

2. "My Thoughts, if you're interested" - My lifelong project would be an athropological look at society, and what I find interesting and amazing about humans and the way they do things, with suggestions for improving one's quality of life.

[rhinosaur]

So I was thinking today... if you had to write a book, what would the title be, and what would it be about, if...

1. You had to write a book RIGHT NOW and publish it within a year?
2. You had to write a book over your lifetime, to be published in 40 years?

I'm considering writing a biography of William Nealy (http://www.paddlermagazine.com/issues/2001_6/article_148.shtml). Publishing a book is too expensive, though, and I don't have the money for it. :(

[Herr_Rosen]

If I could write a book it would be something along the lines of "The Rise and Fall of the Best Job Ever"

I was fortunate enough to get a very stable, well-paying job straight out of high school. Fortunate because it got me through the 6 years of tuition fees and changed majors.

Being a student I primarily do the weekend shift free of mangers and the like, and for the first two years we had a glorious run of bypassing network firewalls and spectating the nastiest porno we could find, every bit of drama imaginable, people showing up to work drunk, stoned, beaten up, whatever.

Basically, after a few years our budget evaporated, people quit and weren't replaced, IT figured out what it was doing, and snitches were hired to keep us in line.

I've had an urge to write the book for a while, but memory's fading, the best moments I wanted to take pictures of are long gone, and I'm just too bitter and tired to really bother at this point.

[booyalab]

All Worldly Knowledge and Wisdom for Dummies, pretty self-explanatory

[inspectorgadget]

Inspectorgadget's CRAZAY and WILD collection of YO MOMMA jokes!

And, the one about my life: Shot Dead Over a Dumb Joke

[Samurai Drifter]

Samurai Drifter's Book of Philosophy.

All it would do would be give my views of the world. Obviously no one would buy it. I'd write it more for my own amusement.

The second one that I AM writing is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi story.

[Kyrielle]

1. What Not to Say to Goblins About a girl who uses the stories her grandfather told her as a girl (stories about goblins and all sorts of mischievous beings) to find her way through the maze of cities to get to a house where something awaits her.

2. About Art, Life, and Death A self-explanatory title.

[Oculus Sinister]

A graphic novel about two friends, one friend who always gives his friend shit for dropping out of college while he studies all the time. It would be acolyptic and based in the present.

[Kyrielle]

By the way, thank you for the thread...I think I might actually write that "What Not to Say to Goblins" book/story. Maybe I'll even illustrate it, but this idea is too fun to ignore.

[xNTP]

By the way, thank you for the thread...I think I might actually write that "What Not to Say to Goblins" book/story. Maybe I'll even illustrate it, but this idea is too fun to ignore.

Cheers! I like the title.

[Ghost-Girl]

Lately i've wanted to write a book titled "Atlas goes bowling"

[Ellipsis]

Books I am thinking about writing short term:
"2Day"- Impact of Generation X on the world and the future of the world examing socail and political changes being brought about by the internet. Kinda like wikionomics but with more theory and predictions.
"A War"- (Humour possibly)basically I examine what would have happened if everything went right with the war in Iraq and explian how that is almost impossible. Also examines similar situations that may occur in the near future and explain how nothing will ever go "right" with those wars eithier.
"Water,Bread and Faith"-Examing the role faith provides in the world and in politics, also examining it's changes though the ages and how religon will have to change in response to "global communication"(might just be part of 2Day).
-(Some of these are probably already written)

Long term-
This one is really being written-Ukla
My goal of it is to be a Narnia of the 21st century...with slightly less bizzare creatures.

[TheGiftofWork]

The Past of Mine

-A book about a person's thoughts and feelings inside their head, from birth to death.

[outmywindow]

The Past of Mine

-A book about a person's thoughts and feelings inside their head, from birth to death.

...So, a journal?

[bluebell]

1. if it had to be written within a year, possibly the model in my head about human behaviour/personality.

I did start a novel (wrote a coupla chapters) loosely based on some bad shit that happened to me and my sister when I was 14 but rewritten with a much happier ending - but it got too distressing so I stopped. Maybe I'll finish it one day or try to write in a short story format, cut the crap.

2. long term - I'd love to learn how to draw cartoons, or find someone who could cartoon, and write one about science academia. Like Dilbert but geekier and drunker. This is another project that I started but had to give up cos I couldn't come up with vaguely decent drawings. And the INTP-I'm-bored-now didn't help. But I've kept my notes and first crappy sketches.

[Ferrus]

'A guide to being a loner: 12 step program that will see you sloughing as much human interaction as is possible'

[Methofelis]

So I was thinking today... if you had to write a book, what would the title be, and what would it be about, if...

1. You had to write a book RIGHT NOW and publish it within a year?


I'm already writing a book based off of a recurring dream I've had. It basically boils down to this:
It is the last year of my main characters life. He is unaware, as is everyone else around him -- it end with his death. But within alternating chapters, it also follows him through the afterlife (or my version of it) and the trials he must go through. It's odd, but my proofreader seemed to adore it.

2. You had to write a book over your lifetime, to be published in 40 years?

It would contain minimal writing... more of a collection of important photographs from my lifetime, perhaps ten photos per year of my life. Minor explanations.



I take too long to write anything, though. I would have to push myself fairly hard.

[xNTP]

'A guide to being a loner: 12 step program that will see you sloughing as much human interaction as is possible'

:ph34r: :rofl:

[nittanylion302]

What mathematics REALLY is and why you hated it in School.

[TheGiftofWork]

...So, a journal?

Not necessarily. The character would be entirely made up and his unconscious motives and thoughts would be an integral part of the story.

[dubbeltop]

So I was thinking today... if you had to write a book, what would the title be, and what would it be about, if...

1. You had to write a book RIGHT NOW and publish it within a year?

Title : I ate it all
Price :$25
Subject: the food I ate and the waste it created....pictures included( :) )

2. You had to write a book over your lifetime, to be published in 40 years?

Title : Looking back ....memoires of an invisible man
Price: free (downloadable after my expiration from planet Earth)
Subject : Just a collection of things and thoughts about my presence and experiences of this planet, including pictures and lots of text to read and enjoy.....

[Savy]

1) A story I might actually begin to write soon. The idea has been rolling around in my mind like a piece of inspired garbage. A person (girl, or boy, doesn't matter) who lives in a city made completely of stone and water. The town will have some odd religion and several innovative quirks. About half the book will be describing the town and daily life in it. In the second half, I'll introduce some country bumpkin from a vineyard, escaped to the city to find excitement. The two will meet and together they'll come to some realization. Doesn't sound great in the dull outline, but I'm sure it'll be great when I write it.

I have no idea what a life project would be. A commentary on life? The lessons I've learned? It's too difficult to answer this question as of right now.

[camille]

John Brown - The Man Behind the Murder

My Love Affair With Walt Whitman

[Mempy]

An action/thriller/romance novel. Not sure of the title yet. It would focus on the development of characters, including a few main characters and several less important ones. Street kids, detectives, and murder. Mostly interrogation, arguing, and running, spiced with the occasional romance between a tough, new detective (we're talking late twenties, early thirties here) and a rather bitter, dynamic cop. Lots of mojo. Or I may write a novel that's realistic with lots of fantasy.

A self-help book. It would delve into the Enneagram and other personality systems that encourage self-acceptance and self-growth. I'd include all my most important and profound life lessons - things that gave me problems and how I later solved them. Since I haven't been through half of all my life problems yet, I figure this book could age with me, like fine wine.

[Ferrus]

Wow, some chap in Virigina has made a film version of my book!

[ohtarie_aranel]

1. You had to write a book RIGHT NOW and publish it within a year?
I'd finish one of the ones I've already started. (I like to start things, but finishing them is another matter...)
2. You had to write a book over your lifetime, to be published in 40 years?
I would write a fantasy novel or series with Christian allegories/messages because that would be fun and interesting.

[umin]

1. Love Over Zero - as we evolve ourselves through perspective shift and growth in an infinite possible directions, so to must we converge into one being amongst and infinite others. Over time, ideas branched out, divided into countless pursuits, and they all point to one thing: love.

2. Love Over Zero, 50th anniversary edition (with new commentary by the author)

[xNTP]

1. Love Over Zero - as we evolve ourselves through perspective shift and growth in an infinite possible directions, so to must we converge into one being amongst and infinite others. Over time, ideas branched out, divided into countless pursuits, and they all point to one thing: love.

2. Love Over Zero, 50th anniversary edition (with new commentary by the author)

Cool book idea. Connected to Buddhism, or just general New Age? (or both) (or neither?)

[Anonymous]

1. Selfishness: Wrong? - Going over whether being selfish is really a negative thing, or actually something which we all have a moral and social right to.

2. What You See is Not What You Get - a look at how we perceive reality versus the way in which reality probably is, and all of the contradictions which suddenly disappear when you do away with many of the human perceptions.

[Hermione]

1. Selfishness: Wrong? - Going over whether being selfish is really a negative thing, or actually something which we all have a moral and social right to.

2. What You See is Not What You Get - a look at how we perceive reality versus the way in which reality probably is, all all of the contradictions which suddenly disappear when you do away with many of the human perceptions.

Damn, you're good. I would've picked these myself.
Mine (since I am severely jonesin' for some Harry Potter again):
"Harry Potter and the Zen of Muggles Maintainence"

[xNTP]

1. Selfishness: Wrong? - Going over whether being selfish is really a negative thing, or actually something which we all have a moral and social right to.

2. What You See is Not What You Get - a look at how we perceive reality versus the way in which reality probably is, and all of the contradictions which suddenly disappear when you do away with many of the human perceptions.

Why not have the contents of the second book inform the first book, to say that moral values are a human invention that don't really exist; therefore, the question of whether selfishness is good or bad is faulty.

[Archvile]

2. What You See is Not What You Get - a look at how we perceive reality versus the way in which reality probably is, and all of the contradictions which suddenly disappear when you do away with many of the human perceptions.

Right now I'm developing (in my mind) the concept of 'Frames'. Frames are selected structures of reduced complexity. Every person has his own 'frame' through which one perceives reality. Perhaps I'm gonna make a thread about it...

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[nagrom]

"The Complete Diaries of Morgan Sutherland (me)"

and/or

"The Missing Link: Linking Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Psychology into a Theory of Everyth..., Volumes I-VI"

[xNTP]

Right now I'm developing (in my mind) the concept of 'Frames'. Frames are selected structures of reduced complexity. Every person has his own 'frame' through which one perceives reality. Perhaps I'm gonna make a thread about it...

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What comprises a frame? Associations/thought patterns? Perceptions? Identifications?

[Anonymous]

Why not have the contents of the second book inform the first book, to say that moral values are a human invention that don't really exist; therefore, the question of whether selfishness is good or bad is faulty.

While that's true, and I agree, you do need some standards to run society well. By "wrong" I meant more of a "not a healthy behavioral pattern to keep a society in which the most possible people are happy". But "wrong" is shorter. Still though, it probably would be a good idea to try and find a better word choice if I were to go ahead and write a book like that.

And Archvile: I think I understand what you mean. I've been thinking of a metaphor recently in which reality is an infinite, blank surface. Since the human brain can't cope with that, we have to draw circles on that surface and tell ourselves that what is held within those circles is reality.

[xNTP]

While that's true, and I agree, you do need some standards to run society well. By "wrong" I meant more of a "not a healthy behavioral pattern to keep a society in which the most possible people are happy". But "wrong" is shorter. Still though, it probably would be a good idea to try and find a better word choice if I were to go ahead and write a book like that.

I have a suspicion that that's the reason many Buddhists use the word "unwholesome". Dysfunctional, maladaptive, anti-utilitarian, and antisocial are some other options. Or you could just say NAHBPTKASIWTMPPAH. It's kinda catchy. ;)

[xNTP]

Damn, you're good. I would've picked these myself.
Mine (since I am severely jonesin' for some Harry Potter again):
"Harry Potter and the Zen of Muggles Maintainence"

I'd watch the movie, for sho.

[Archvile]

What comprises a frame? Associations/thought patterns? Perceptions? Identifications?

Yes. All of them. Right now I'm studying various philosophers in an attempt to find out if there had been concepts similar to mine before, or if my idea is really unique (hardly)...

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[Hermione]

Six Easy Pieces of Pi

[nagrom]

What mathematics REALLY is and why you hated it in School.

Please write this. Seriously, or get somebody else to.

[nagrom]

John Brown - The Man Behind the Murder

My Love Affair With Walt Whitman
The behavioral counselor at my school wrote a book about John Brown.
http://www.amazon.com/Hanging-Old-Brown-Statesmen-Redemption/dp/0275974790



The Past of Mine

-A book about a person's thoughts and feelings inside their head, from birth to death.

I really like this idea. I've been meaning to read Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past", which is basically that.

[nagrom]

Right now I'm developing (in my mind) the concept of 'Frames'. Frames are selected structures of reduced complexity. Every person has his own 'frame' through which one perceives reality. Perhaps I'm gonna make a thread about it...
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I've been fascinated by this as well. Like a computer program is an abstraction of binary, our experience of the world is an abstraction of what really happens.
I'd love to see a book on this, and, I'm sure there is one somewhere.

[Anonymous]

-How to assassinate the president in 6 easy steps.

[umin]

Cool book idea. Connected to Buddhism, or just general New Age? (or both) (or neither?)

Are you a fan of Zen as well?

I like books that connect subjects that connect at sociological points, extra points if they talk about ideas I find interesting.

[xNTP]

Are you a fan of Zen as well?

I like books that connect subjects that connect at sociological points, extra points if they talk about ideas I find interesting.

Yeah, I'm obsessed with Zen. I think that sociological "blimp view" of time and space is tied closely to Zen, too. I could see INTPs moving closer to Zen (or at least the study of it) in the future because it offers a lot of benefits that INTPs tend to aim for -- clarity, wisdom, big-picture views, and insight into reality and human nature. Who could resist such tempting fruit?

[Niffer]

I have no patience for writing books. I would make the first one an almost-picture book, and the second one a short novel, and that's only if I was forced.

1. Verdant - you know the colour of a new leaf? how to..put yourself into the postition of that leaf, and absorb all the nutrients and sunlight you can from the world around you...in a human way.

2. How Can I Help You? - about the children of mid-post-Generation X, how they have grown up in and handled the world left to them, and what is to become of us, and how i would have helped the people of the future as someone from the generation that i am from

[Niffer]

excellent ideas coming from everyone..you all need to get off intpc and start writing!

[Masterofnone]

1. 1001 jokes to break the silence at any party.
"What did Helen Keller yell when she fell off a cliff?
...nothing, she was wearing mittens."


2. point zero, Chain reaction.
A collection of writings and discussions on the cause and effect state of the universe. Mainly essays about the theory that everything that is to happen in the universe is inevitable and meant to be, in a purely scientific way. The main question is, What first event set forth this chain reaction of matter and energy?

[bluebell]

excellent ideas coming from everyone..you all need to get off intpc and start writing!

We're INTPs, where P = procrastination ;)

[Hermione]

Not necessarily. The character would be entirely made up and his unconscious motives and thoughts would be an integral part of the story.

Would you please come at this from a Jungian theory postulum. I swear, if the chicks all have penis envy I'm not buying your work. jk

[GraviTass]

Life Skills For The INTP : Vol I-IV :zz:

[xNTP]

1. 1001 jokes to break the silence at any party.
"What did Helen Keller yell when she fell off a cliff?
...nothing, she was wearing mittens."

That's awful...

...awfully hilarious!

*rimshot*

[SilverFalcon]

I AM writing a book, so this might be a little easier for me. However, I refuse to give it a title yet. You need to truly look at your book before you give it a title. The title is what first draws in readers. I'll start a thread if/when it hits markets.

[jleonardbc]

I would write a book about foundations of music, especially with respect to mathematics...I think that could explain a lot about why we like what we like and provide a more empirical way of seeing what makes good music good--the elegance of good music explained by the elegance of mathematical structures. some people are doing work on this, but not much is known to date.

[nagrom]

I would write a book about foundations of music, especially with respect to mathematics...I think that could explain a lot about why we like what we like and provide a more empirical way of seeing what makes good music good--the elegance of good music explained by the elegance of mathematical structures. some people are doing work on this, but not much is known to date.

I was extremely frustrated in my music theory class this year because the only thing that was interesting to me was the mathematics... and music theory is about memorizing a bunch of techniques so you can easily collaborate with others and write down what you've done.

[jleonardbc]

I was extremely frustrated in my music theory class this year because the only thing that was interesting to me was the mathematics... and music theory is about memorizing a bunch of techniques so you can easily collaborate with others and write down what you've done.

I replied to this, but the rollback deleted it and I didn't save...suffice it to say that music notation is to music as language notation (alphabet, punctuation, etc.) is to a spoken language, and the study of music theory is comparable to the study of grammar, a pursuit that can enable one to speak freely and creatively.

[Larkin]

The bazaar, tragic and courageous life and death of Madelyn Murray O'Hair

[ed_dunn84]

The Three R's

Reckless
Random
IrResponsible

It would be based on the road trip adventures i've had. All fueled with beer and adderall. It would make Hunter S Thompson look like a normal guy.

[Ponderous]

Since I was a teenager, I've made a note when I have a book idea so that I can think about writing it later. About 10 years ago, I even got a cool book that let me put these ideas in one location rather than misplacing them from time to time. Now if I could just find that book...

In response to the OP, I'll go with the idea that I had yesterday in the hopes that somebody will run with it. It's not entirely new, but sounded like fun.

I'd like to see a book entirely from the perspective of a computer. How does the computer perceive reality? What is reality for it? Perhaps the book would go in the direction of the computer becoming sentient, perhaps not. Perhaps the computer would exist only to serve, but always have a running commentary about the idiots it worked for. A lot of fun could be had by the conversations the computer "overhears" and the story could entirely play out that way.

[eviloatmeal]

"World Domination for Dummies"

(Illustrated by John Kovalic)

[belladona]

Perhaps the computer would exist only to serve, but always have a running commentary about the idiots it worked for. A lot of fun could be had by the conversations the computer "overhears" and the story could entirely play out that way.

This book is told from 3 perspectives and I think only 1 falls into the category above but it was fun: Greenthieves by Alan Dean Foster :)

Answering the original question, I'd write something with a catchy title about 'why economics matter and why you shouldn't listen to what politicians say about it'. In the long term, I'd write a compilation of erotic stories with introductions about the historical hysteria over various sex acts. Somewhere in between would be some fantasy and sci-fi and a book about depression.

[Ellipsis]

Book I am curently writing(probably will go no where but don't tell me that!)(Also I was basically just writign down ideas...still doesn't flow right...clearly seen in the last few sentences...)


The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Horizon Military Training Center
Orbiting Mars (Sol System)
September, 1st 2678 A.D.

He was afraid, more then ever before. Tomas, a child of just five years had never before been in space, to him it was something, odd and exciting. For the first part of his life he had been raised by the military, fed clothed, and taught by them. The perfect solider, that was what the tax payers where paying for. He and the other 4042 were the ones that survived the genetic advancements and other tampering. The original number ordered was 10,000, most died in birth or the days following. There where no mothers for these creations they where created by science in artificial wombs. No even the D.N.A. was artificially created. From the moment of birth there was a strict, very strict plan for every minute of every day. No, their creators did not believe them to be human, not even close.


Where does it go from here? Well basically through training...I am thinking of this as a sorta like Halo:Fall of Reach and Ender's Game.....you know rise of the super commender....except that I think I might have the character have more P leanings(a source of internel conflict)...I am thinking of introducing another character who will be the better leader( and J) but who the goverment selected for something else (This will also show the Nurture vs Nature aregument....except Nature this time is genetically engineered)...Still unsure of introducing a xenophobic aleins species....it seems so cliche

[Ellipsis]

Since I was a teenager, I've made a note when I have a book idea so that I can think about writing it later. About 10 years ago, I even got a cool book that let me put these ideas in one location rather than misplacing them from time to time. Now if I could just find that book...

In response to the OP, I'll go with the idea that I had yesterday in the hopes that somebody will run with it. It's not entirely new, but sounded like fun.

I'd like to see a book entirely from the perspective of a computer. How does the computer perceive reality? What is reality for it? Perhaps the book would go in the direction of the computer becoming sentient, perhaps not. Perhaps the computer would exist only to serve, but always have a running commentary about the idiots it worked for. A lot of fun could be had by the conversations the computer "overhears" and the story could entirely play out that way.


I like this idea....it would be a great way to do a third person narritive...Amazing....lets hope someone will run it....

[Meticulum]

If you had to write a book, what would the title be, and what would it be about, if...

1. You had to write a book RIGHT NOW and publish it within a year?
2. You had to write a book over your lifetime, to be published in 40 years?


Great question. Really made me stop and think. For me it would be the following:

1. The Art of the Graft: Handbook of Asexual Fruit Tree Propagation
2. Lamb Abbey: 40 Years of Contentment in an Acadian Orchard

John

[Ellipsis]

(NOW EDITED....for basic spelling!!!!)


New idea:

Basic idea-Sci-fi

Sometime in the near future(like next year) SETI finally hears something...but due to some gravity well or something
A: they can't isolate its location for certain

B: information is coming much faster then them the flow of time...thus the government has hijacked a few super computers to store the information while it comes at them and put it together....

Main Character-Some anthropologist with a shitty life....who is suddenly hired by the government to look at the information.

So they start...first signals are radio....the linguists and super computers have found the basic structure of the language and it is now translational....the teams of specialists start looking at the programs...everything from news to sports is seen.... quickly the government starts the real project and sends more cash at it as it appears there is only a limited window for them to receive this information (and the technologies it may afford...thus the main character's project is given less funding)....the guy starts turning around his life bit by bit and faces major challenges (like working for a big secret government organization in which everything he discovers is seen as un-important whereas the discoveries would be schocking if released to the mainstream public).....well this continues for 5-10 years....during which the government has seen the development of many wepons....then the bombshell...he finds the start of Armageddon on the world and watches it unfold...he discloses this to his bosses...he is almost at once shut down(for fear if anyone find out about this the technology discovered might be more feared..as it should be)... and told to keep his mouth shut...they rather then risk throwing him out...they give him other jobs like sorting out random bits the super computers found unimportant in the main searches....he agrees....but sinks back into old habits and his life starts falling apart again as he loses hope in humanity once more....but he soon stumbles on many things the other teams missed certain technologies that did not appear in the "main stream"(ones looking for wepons ) searches.... he is forced to hide these and shares them with outside help... like the secrets to special computer systems for storing vast amounts of data....which he instantly uses and manages to store all his own stuff....

Thats basically how it will go....not going to reveal the ending....

Now all it will take is major interest......and a lack of being lazy.....
__________________

[xNTP]

GC, just write it in this thread. You're got a good start already...

[Ellipsis]

GC, just write it in this thread. You're got a good start already...

Hmmm....good idea....

The thing that is inspiring me is that the post I made was #66 and that happens to be a number that follows me around a lot....

Not that I am the anti-christ or anything :whistle:

....missing the one 6.......

[xNTP]

:)

[Ellipsis]

:)

Also as you might have noticed I need spellcheck.....

[xNTP]

Yes, and a new Enter key.

[Limey]

The book I would write (or wish I had contributed to) was already written.
It is "Career Hacking, Information Security" by Sybex
Since I walk the line between the INTP back room "coder geeks" and the ENTP and ENTJ archetypal customer facing consultants, I think I would offer further insight to the distinct camps in my field.

[xNTP]

What exactly is career hacking?

[Spring]

1: The Elite Oligarchy of America and Why Ron Paul Will Never be President: a book exploring how big business and the rich of the country manipulate our two party system and place puppets in the Presidency.

2: Life's a Bitch and Then You Die.: a book for the youth (which they will never read) that basically explains how youth is wasted on the young because we are so hung up on our insignificant insecurities and anxieties about life that we fail to pursue our happiness.

[Katzchen]

Lately i've wanted to write a book titled "Atlas goes bowling"

:rofl: make it a children's book.



If I wrote a book it would probably be a memoir about the people I know/knew, and how interesting they are even though they fail to see it because they're so busy focusing on whatever trite fantasies they have this week.

...It sounds really F of me but I think a lot of people are more interesting than... they think I think they are. :thelook: It isn't even that people don't think they're interesting (plenty of people do) but they think they're interesting for the wrong reasons.

Also, there are a lot of people who don't think they're interesting but really are. ;)

So essentially it would be a book about what I think of people, only with an attempt to focus on the positive. (That's what I mean by F.)

If I had to write a book in forty years, well, it would probably be the same thing only longer and more well-written.

[Limey]

What exactly is career hacking?

It's pretty much a guide for becoming the best in your field and picking the best suited field to begin with, since Information Security has grown to be a fairly sizable sub-set of the parent, I.T.

It's also a play on words, since part of IS, (also the part I do) is known as "Ethical Hacking".

It's probably something a "J" can appreciate more since it's primarily written by driven people that are doing well in this field, writing about developing skills to be a ninja in this novel career path, which incidentally is filled with more INTJs and ENTJs than you can shake a[n optionally shit covered] stick at, and most of us are well aware of MBTI and actively keep SF types out as well as low IQ and paper cert holders. I do this routinely as part of the interview process.

Sex, Race and Nationality don't really matter as much as they used to - if you're a ten year IT/IS career vet and you're INTJ or INTP, you're usually golden.

[Jonanory]

1.For the right now one, I would probably right something that would have something to do with the dog eat dog world. It would probably be called "Nature's Arena" It would be about a mega arena which has one of all species of animals in it, fighting to see which animal is the greatest. The book would probably be in the view of one of the animals (preferably a flying one)

2.The book to be written in a long time would be more of a non-fiction one. It would include possibilities of the reason for man's existence, from The Big Bang causing the world and there is no meaning to the whole world is a figment of your imagination that is taken from the real world (however that would mean that this life only lasts for a few hours before the real you gets hungry and stops imagining this life).

[Henry]

Chicken Soup for the Disgruntled Hack Writer's Soul

[Nighthawk]

My Sexual Conquests ... the pages would be blank.

[eyebyte_atWork]

I would write "100 ways to strike out with Hooter's Waitresses - An Autobiography"

[Ferrus]

I would write "100 ways to strike out with Hooter's Waitresses - An Autobiography"
Will it include diagrams?

[MadamI'madaM]

A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' piece

Pathetically Awkward Interactions with the Opposite Sex

I've seriously toyed with the idea of this as a satirical essay/novella

EDIT: God only knows I've no shortage of useable material

[Shipper]

1. The Conglomerate: an autobiographical analogy of my nonsensical life and those who influence it.

2. Evolving Attitudes: the chronicle of a dynamic culture in the first half of the twenty-first century.

[Accidental]

i has a karot and sum vegibles: a pictorial guide to healthy eating

[Shipper]

i has a karot and sum vegibles: a pictorial guide to healthy eating

LOL

[Rhu]

After a couple weeks of having one idea for a story that I don't want to write, it started festering, branching, and expanding, until it became an idea for a book.

It would be a sort of bleak fantasy world--a single tile of white underneath a sunless white sky, stretching out endlessly in all directions. The book would start as a series of fables involving the interaction of archetypical embodyments. It would continue with first hand accounts of the rare travelers who live their lives traveling from village to village on the infinitely grand continent.

Then it would develop the characters of those who would delve into the ground to build the first cities, towers and such. Then there would be accounts of the logistics and horrors of war brought about by their hording descendents.

Finally, there'd be an exploration of the outward ripples of humanity from the starting point on the plane, and the strange things on the fringes returning home after war collapses the center.

[LongSilence]

After a couple weeks of having one idea for a story that I don't want to write, it started festering, branching, and expanding, until it became an idea for a book.

It would be a sort of bleak fantasy world--a single tile of white underneath a sunless white sky, stretching out endlessly in all directions. The book would start as a series of fables involving the interaction of archetypical embodyments. It would continue with first hand accounts of the rare travelers who live their lives traveling from village to village on the infinitely grand continent.

Then it would develop the characters of those who would delve into the ground to build the first cities, towers and such. Then there would be accounts of the logistics and horrors of war brought about by their hording descendents.

Finally, there'd be an exploration of the outward ripples of humanity from the starting point on the plane, and the strange things on the fringes returning home after war collapses the center.

I'm guessing all the cities would be constructed out of white tile too...

[Rhu]

I'm guessing all the cities would be constructed out of white tile too...
Absolutely... Mortared with the gunk that draw from underground wells. Though for some reason, I'm seeing that stuff as running in yellow, red, and purple streams. Maybe they taste like preserves.

[TPol]

By the way, thank you for the thread...I think I might actually write that "What Not to Say to Goblins" book/story. Maybe I'll even illustrate it, but this idea is too fun to ignore.

Go for it! And, the same company (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing) who published Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (Spiderwick Chronicles) might publish yours. Worth a try.

[Mahavidya]

Train of thought novel covering most of my dreams, that I can still remember.

[Kathara]

As long as it is good, I dont care when it is published. And speaking of that, I am getting published next year. I have enriched my MA paper, and voila, I will be a publish author!

[kuranes]

1. What Not to Say to Goblins About a girl who uses the stories her grandfather told her as a girl (stories about goblins and all sorts of mischievous beings) to find her way through the maze of cities to get to a house where something awaits her.

2. About Art, Life, and Death A self-explanatory title.

Sounds like it has a lot of potential. Do it !


Six Easy Pieces of Pi

Hmmm. Intriguing. Maybe get that restaurant chain that emphasizes it's pies to underwrite you. :)


What mathematics REALLY is and why you hated it in School.
I would love to read this.




I really like this idea. I've been meaning to read Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past",

I've been meaning to get to this ever since hearing that Neal Cassady loved it. I like the idea of it a lot, but I have a feeling that the reality of it may be less engaging than expected, as Proust's world was so different than mine. Finding a hip, modern take on this would be awesome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Cassady


I would write a book about foundations of music, especially with respect to mathematics...I think that could explain a lot about why we like what we like and provide a more empirical way of seeing what makes good music good--the elegance of good music explained by the elegance of mathematical structures. some people are doing work on this, but not much is known to date.

This sounds very interesting. You might talk to Elliott Sharp as one source of ideas, as he's especially interested in this. There is also a guy here in Chicago who is doing a huge book on music theory which includes all sorts of diagrams showing different tunings and so forth too, as well as going into differences between Western and modal etc. He was once the lead guitar player for Miles Davis ( in the electric period ) and is brimming with ideas. Three other sources of input would be George Russell's "Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization", Dr. Yusef Lateef's ideas, and finally the new "root progression system" concepts of Louisiana based Alvin Batiste, who ( while updating my notes for this post, I note with sadness has recently passed ) was a teacher of up and comer Maurice Brown.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/new_orleans_mourns_the_loss_of.html



I'd like to see a book entirely from the perspective of a computer. How does the computer perceive reality? What is reality for it? Perhaps the book would go in the direction of the computer becoming sentient, perhaps not. Perhaps the computer would exist only to serve, but always have a running commentary about the idiots it worked for. A lot of fun could be had by the conversations the computer "overhears" and the story could entirely play out that way.

This sounds fun.



B: information is coming much faster then them the flow of time...thus the government has hijacked a few super computers to store the information while it comes at them and put it together....

Main Character-Some anthropologist with a shitty life....who is suddenly hired by the government to look at the information.

So they start...first signals are radio....the linguists and super computers have found the basic structure of the language and it is now translational....the teams of specialists start looking at the programs...everything from news to sports is seen.... quickly the government starts the real project and sends more cash at it as it appears there is only a limited window for them to receive this information (and the technologies it may afford...thus the main character's project is given less funding)....the guy starts turning around his life bit by bit and faces major challenges (like working for a big secret government organization in which everything he discovers is seen as un-important whereas the discoveries would be schocking if released to the mainstream public).....well this continues for 5-10 years....during which the government has seen the development of many wepons....then the bombshell...he finds the start of Armageddon on the world and watches it unfold...he discloses this to his bosses...he is almost at once shut down(for fear if anyone find out about this the technology discovered might be more feared..as it should be)... and told to keep his mouth shut...they rather then risk throwing him out...they give him other jobs like sorting out random bits the super computers found unimportant in the main searches....he agrees....but sinks back into old habits and his life starts falling apart again as he loses hope in humanity once more....but he soon stumbles on many things the other teams missed certain technologies that did not appear in the "main stream"(ones looking for wepons ) searches.... he is forced to hide these and shares them with outside help... like the secrets to special computer systems for storing vast amounts of data....which he instantly uses and manages to store all his own stuff....

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This sounds very interesting if it gets into specifics a la Tom Clancy. If it sticks to generalities, then...it sounds like you just wrote it. It sounds like such a major undertaking that it might never get off the ground, though. You might want to consider taking it in smaller, more manageable, bites.


The book I would write (or wish I had contributed to) was already written.
It is "Career Hacking, Information Security" by Sybex


I'll have to keep an eye out for this. Just read Mitnick's book. What do you think are some of the best books on social engineering and hacking, in addition to career hacking ?


1: The Elite Oligarchy of America and Why Ron Paul Will Never be President: a book exploring how big business and the rich of the country manipulate our two party system and place puppets in the Presidency.



I'd be interested in this.


A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' piece

Pathetically Awkward Interactions with the Opposite Sex

I've seriously toyed with the idea of this as a satirical essay/novella

EDIT: God only knows I've no shortage of useable material

This could be great if you went into the motivations of the two sides and so it was clear to the reader ( if not the person having the adventure ) why something might fail with one person but work with another based on timing as well as personality preferences, idiosyncrosies etc.

I'm thinking of writing a humorous novel inspired by P.G. Wodehouse, "Confederacy of Dunces", Oliver Hardy, and personal experiences. I will have to force myself to stay on track with the humor and not get into soap box dramatics that distract it into seriousness, even though some of what takes place could have been given a good presentation with that other spin. But good humor is hard to write and I may find myself changing the book as I go along.

I have a lot of other ideas too. Too many. When people talk about "writer's block" they seem to be referring to people having a problem generating ideas. No problem with that here. My "block'" is exactly that it is so much easier to keep having these new ideas than to actually get to grips with taking off the "new ideas" hat and putting on the humbler but necessary typing hat.

[Faust06]

I'm planning on starting a book about a guy who manages to become immortal, and his thoughts spanning many years. It's going to be fucking complicated but amateurish if anything. Possibly written in a "notebook" format.. possibly just straight narration. I just keep thinking about it, and getting new ideas, so it'll eat away at me until I do it.

[Ferrus]

A History of Vojvodina.

[calenwen]

It would be a short story, completely fiction, and require lots of interpretation.

[Roger Mexico]

1. Something about the political significance of dissident subcultures, probably focusing on Germany during World War II since I already wrote an undergrad thesis about it. Not a lot of extant literature on the subject.

2. Some kind of Bildungsroman presenting life lessons and philosophical insights I've accumulated over the years. Not so much autobiographical as representing the progression of my inner monologue in the form of interactions with characters that represent philosophical/ existential archetypes.

[LastRailway]

A futuristic political thriller.

[nittanylion302]

1. Steel: Poems from the Three Rivers.

This would be me wandering around the neighborhoods in my city, and writing prodigiously about what it is like to be from Pittsburgh, and perhaps the surrounding Appalachian region.

2. A Defense of God.

This would be my magnum opus. A defense of God on logical grounds.

[helium]

1. You had to write a book RIGHT NOW and publish it within a year?

Courting Christina: A Dad's Dating Guide. I've already started soliciting anecdotes and have written some chapter outlines. I want to approach it from a perspective of what not to do. How many of you royally embarrassed your teenage selves in front of your dates' parents? Exactly. Maybe I'll leave it open to both sexes, but I'm thinking of the marketing potential of a book written specifically for boys trying to impress girls' dads, followed by a book for girls trying to impress boys' moms.

Tacolosophy. There's a gold mine of philosophies, aphorisms, maxims, and proverbs that contradict one another or otherwise make no sense (and better yet make sense in all the wrong ways) if you don't read far enough into them or read too far into them or what have you. Like tacos, they look great on the plate ... and then you try to pick them up. Instamess!



2. You had to write a book over your lifetime, to be published in 40 years?

CRACKED (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=23316). Although I think now it has much more potential as an autobiography of sorts, or a series of essays, instead of a novel (fiction or non-fiction) just about growing up.

[xNTP]

A History of Vojvodina.

The car oil or the STD?


CHow many of you royally embarrassed your teenage selves in front of your dates' parents?

I'd have to ask my therapist since I often confused being perceived as a shmuck for being perceived as smooth.


Like tacos, they look great on the plate ... and then you try to pick them up. Instamess!


Perfect. I love tacos.



CRACKED (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?t=23316).

I had a feeling.

[Ferrus]

The car oil or the STD?
The country* that invented it all.

*Or rather autonomous province. I think it should be independent though, I mean if those smegheads in Kosovo get their own state and whatnot.

[sandman7474]

here is the title to my book:

"the glass is half empty, its water is dirty, it has a chip, and I've just cut my lip on it"

An outlook on life in general by....

[helium]

The car oil or the STD?

If you can believe my bad poetry, maybe it's both.



I'd have to ask my therapist since I often confused being perceived as a shmuck for being perceived as smooth.
[...]
Perfect. I love tacos.

Wait! This is brilliant. Sordid poetry + Boy Meets World + Tacolosophy = ...

Boy Eats Taco!


I had a feeling.

I knew it!

[Kathara]

A History of Vojvodina.

Cool. But I am pretty sure it has been done already. May I suggest Transnistria?

[Ferrus]

Cool. But I am pretty sure it has been done already. May I suggest Transnistria?
That is so old hat... ah, now Ossetia... to go there, live with the locals, learn the language, and write such a book. If only I had been born into a life of leisure, eh?

[Ptah]

1. You had to write a book RIGHT NOW and publish it within a year?
2. You had to write a book over your lifetime, to be published in 40 years?

1. "A New Cosmology: A Guide To All That Is"; a new-age book detailing an entirely fictional cosmology (and implicit requisite philosophy), worded as if factual, so as to establish a new quasi-religion based on nothing more than the elaborations of my life-long imaginary universe, seeking to profit from the (all too common) suggestable, ignorant moojority who will buy it, read it, believe it true, and then purchase more of it's companion books to follow -- which will, of course, explicitly elaborate some points suggested by the implicit philosophy in the first book (making it "practical, every day"). I can and will do better than Scientology.

2. An omnibus of all that implied in 1.

[Xenolith]

When To Give A Fuck

An esoteric book. Discourses the singularity concept, mind hacking, existential crisis, and schizotypals. It basically teaches INTPs and similar temperaments to adapt or counter-dominate the majority herding types.

[Kathara]

That is so old hat... ah, now Ossetia... to go there, live with the locals, learn the language, and write such a book. If only I had been born into a life of leisure, eh?

Well, if this is your life's goal, then work towards it! :devil:

[kuranes]

1. "A New Cosmology: A Guide To All That Is"; a new-age book detailing an entirely fictional cosmology (and implicit requisite philosophy), worded as if factual.

I tend to like stuff like this. Borges was a master of this and HPL is well known for such shenanigans too. Here is something along those lines by a younger person. Not an entire cosmology, but still....

http://www.sfsite.com/10a/tl161.htm

[Ghost-Girl]

When To Give A Fuck

An esoteric book. Discourses the singularity concept, mind hacking, existential crisis, and schizotypals. It basically teaches INTPs and similar temperaments to adapt or counter-dominate the majority herding types.

I might buy that.

Or flip through it in a book store.

[kuranes]

I might buy that.

Or flip through it in a book store.

The book itself might help you with your dilemma of which way to go on that.

[Ellipsis]

Internet (Or more appropriately WEB) Nation (Complete with flag)

A book discussing the values of the internet both for general and heavy users. primarily discussing the internet as if it where a nation of ideas.

Introduction: Basic stats and introduction to out internet nation.
Chapter one: Geography- Discussion of the different regions of the internet perhaps showing the map from xkcd and others.
Chapter two: Climate- Discussing how different interactions occur depending where you are.
Chapter three: Economy
Etc.

[Lethal Sage]

My Good Friend Dissociation: Tales of Bathwater and a Backseat Rider

I Lost My Shoes

[songbird36]

I would write a book entitled "Neophytes Guide to Embracing Rationalism in the New Millennium", which would discuss and describe (with illustrations) the design and construction of robots..

[aiur]

For Now
Why?

Over my life
Why!

[H.Perowne]

Lately, I've had the idea of writing a book that documents the attitude of American service workers. Sales-people at eyeglass stores, customer service representatives for large companies, secretaries at Doctors' offices, etc. The reason I've recently thought of writing this book is because I want to express my frustration at the average American service worker. I want to document examples of situations where these service workers use their asymmetric power position against the consumer. I want to delve into the psychology behind the attitude of these workers and figure out what drives them to make things harder for the consumer. Why does the secretary at the Doctors' office give me a hard time about scheduling rather than understand that I know less about their scheduling system and guide me into understanding. There are so many times where someone with more knowledge than you by virtue of being a worker at a company uses that knowledge against you. It's so contradictory because they represent a company that should be trying to sell you a service! I suspect it's because many of these people are rather low on the totem pole and are looking to assert their power somehow because they clearly have no real power as evidenced by their small incomes, low prestige, etc.