I'm looking to write a novel but still searching for a satisfying seed idea. Maybe you have one?
(Yes, I'm basically crowdsourcing ideas for a book).
Ask HN: Burning idea for a story you've always wanted written?
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#2An alternate history in which Bill Gates is killed in a car accident in Albuquerque back when Microsoft is just getting started. What would the computer industry have looked like?
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#3A world where nikola tesla has business acumen
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#4A 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.
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#6An alternate history where smallpox does not exist in Europe, and instead travels from the new world back to Europe. Thus the Inca empire is never destroyed and the Americas are never colonized.
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#7First person narrative of a modern day man with innate knowledge that he is in fact the "Son of God" (Jesus) and that the modern Judeo-Christian religions are man made creations. The story is the Christ story, but placed now, the tone is like Kafka, with not necessarily the expected outcome we are familiar.
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Tons of people write novels in less than a month. Source? http://www.nanowrimo.org
It started yesterday so possibly that's what inspired OP's question.