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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] 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.