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Cyrano Jones ([personal profile] cyrano) wrote2010-08-25 01:17 pm
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The occasional and infrequent drawbacks to a life less cluttered

I was sitting here thinking "I need a working title for this story. And it pretty nearly *must* be a Shakespeare quote. Oh! Hey! I spent years marking up my scripts when I found lines that I liked. I'll just...."
Yeah. They're all in California.

EDIT: Apparently this entry is being used as a place holder for title ideas. Feel free to contribute your own.
Basic story is Gibsonian cyberpunk. A bizcorp president is ousted from his position by his brother's underhanded maneuverings. He goes underground to escape assassination, and assembles a troupe of actors to plot his revenge.

[identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com 2010-08-25 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"We Petty Men"
(From Julius Caesar)

[identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com 2010-08-25 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Holy Saints and Wronged Souls"
(From Richard III)

[identity profile] technocowboy.livejournal.com 2010-08-25 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
The most obvious one I can think of is "The Play's the Thing."

[identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com 2010-08-25 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I thought about that, and if I don't end up using that device at the end of the story then that'd be a good choice, but I don't want to hang a lantern on my climax. There's going to be a lot of Hamlet in there, I expect, along with Richard and Caesar.

[identity profile] scarywhitegirl.livejournal.com 2010-08-25 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I suspect if you found an online copy of the script for Hamlet, it would be bursting with ideas. :)

Sadly, all I can think of from Hamlet right now is David Tennant wandering around in a red T-shirt, showing off his hip bones... yummy.

[identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com 2010-08-25 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You say that like it's a bad thing.

[identity profile] scarywhitegirl.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Not a bad thing. Just not very helpful to you in your current predicament. :)

[identity profile] roseneko.livejournal.com 2010-08-25 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Now, *that's* a juicy idea. Good luck with it.

(I got nothing on the quotes, sorry.)