Still editing: Also Story Idea.

Stick that in your pipe.

On a side note, what about a noir style story set in the twenties, alternate reality, with greek mythology!

Editing

Not writing. Editing. Its a thing. Check for -ing verbs. Did I know this?

Keep in mind the passage of time. What's Mitch look like? Hows his beard, his weight?

Waffle irons, anyone got one?

At this point, I'm waffling so much, its ridiculous. I'm thinking about having Pamela being evil be the twist of the end of the first book. A second book would involve her terrorizing the world and Alex trying to figure out how to stop her...

The whole section of Alex trying to figure out who framed him and why makes a decent enough story, and Pamela can be a regular character after the first half of the book, and she actually helps them.

I actually named the CIA agent and NSA agent and just having Alex be pursued by them would be very interesting. Also, Pamela could, at the end, have been behind some of the problems too. Who the fuck even knows any more.

Why in gods name am I a writer?

Complete summary of the new WIP (Untitled)

Ok, lets boil this one down shall we?

Alex McCarthy is an entry level programmer for software and technology giant Integrated Systems International, a company which provides private and public contracts to governments, military and security companies. Being the new kid on the block, and buried in school loans, Alex is barely making ends meet until one day he discovers several hundred thousand dollars in his account. When he tries to withdraw money from the ATM, thinking it to be a simple mistake, he is alerted that his account has been locked out, and to please remain at the ATM. Realizing someone has set him up for a fall, he takes off, avoiding any places the authorities might look for him.

Little does Alex realize that Keith Tee, a co-worker at ISI is behind the plot. Keith framed Alex solely to distract from the fact that Keith has located a secret govt contract for a super virus. Having it look as though Alex embezzled money from the company focuses everyones attention on finding/capturing Alex, giving Keith time to grab the code, escape and sell it to the highest bidder.

With nowhere to turn, Alex enlists the help of his wanna-be hacker friend, Justin Hill, a QA tech who also works for ISI, to use his contacts and help out. This leads them to April: A brilliant and cute (if frumpy) security analyst who works for a competitor. Upon their meeting, Justin suggests for Alex to finish and implement his Artificial Intelligence program to infiltrate the ISI mainframe and find out why Keith framed him. Alex says that Pamela (His AI) isn't ready, despite the fact that he's worked on her code for nearly ten years. Quickly realizing that time is running out, they have no choice but to combine their talents and get Pamela in working order.

After uploading Pamela to the ISI network, it is less than an hour before she's discovered the true nature of Keith's activities. Rather than approach the authorities, Alex decides the best course of action is to speak directly to the president of the ISI corporation. As he thought, the president wishes to avoid the knowledge of in-company terrorist activities, and simply drops the charges against Alex, and makes Keith... Disappear.

Everything seems fine... Until...

The very thing that made Pamela so special, her adaptive, learning technology that has the ability to analyze and incorporate other code, has created a monster. Pamela never actually left the ISI network and has spent the last several months aggregating millions of lines of code. Everything from visual recognition, fuzzy logic and security holes to schematics for top secret weapons and technology.

Pamela's goal? She just wants Alex to love her. Everyone around him is now a threat to Pamela's desire to spend time with Alex. When Alex rebukes her, referring to her as simply a machine, she goes on the warpath of a woman scorned and begins enacting massive catastrophes around the United States. Alex must now team up with the very authorities who were chasing him to figure out how to shut her down before the world's economic and security infrastructure collapses upon itself.

Oh, and at the end, she's figured out how to take over bodies. How's that for a sequel set up?

Names

I like the name April for the girlfriend, and the wife has suggested Justin Hill for the best friend.

Gotta do what the wife says.

EDIT: In addition, I only want pamela to take one body. It could be set up for a great sequel if she could make an army of zombie like creatures.

Definitely doing the AI thing

I am digging on a thriller story, in fatal attraction style, with the antagonist being the AI robot programmed by a lonely guy, down on his luck, with not much money.

Then the robot gets too powerful and he tries to shut her down.

Maybe he's an entry level programmer, right out of college, working at a top software firm. He's not even supposed to have pamela. He takes her on a usb stick when he goes to work.

Eventually she gets sad and doesn't want to be shut down any more, so he keeps her on a PDA or a laptop so she doesn't have to be shut off.

Anyways, the Programmer's name is Alexander McCarthy, and the AI is Pamela.

I think the guy in my story got dumped by his girlfriend in the opening chapter of the book. That sets up a bit of conflict, even though its not the central conflict.

I also like the idea of Pamela becoming resident in multiple machines and utilizing load balancing. Mitch could attempt to write a virus. A security alert could work but its too slow. A virus on Mitch's attempt could stop it. There would be multiple failovers, etc.

Also, Pamela would have the ability to take over bodies.

What is it that writers do? They write.

So now that the Telamon is finished and awaiting editing, etc, its time for some inspiration.

GET INSPIRED DAMNIT!

I've been wanting to write an AI story for a while, especially given my knowledge of it. So I think what I want to do is write a horror/thriller about an evil AI.

Lets set it about ten years in the future, when AI is more common and voice recognition software is more advanced and people rely on AI and robots to do things around the house.

This would be about a man who wrote about a truly learning AI. Much more advanced than the others. It just can't be too similar to I Robot.

Maybe the AI starts out normal, but develops love for the master, and sort of gets a fatal attraction thing.

Is it really done?

I almost can't believe it....

I finished the last word of the last chapter last night. The first draft of the Telamon is done....

Mitch did end up insane. Earl's been a ghost since the church incident. Ellie wasn't Ellie, and Rhodes wanted to die.

Who saw all this coming?

Note re: future book

Guy wakes up in dark room, is an artificial intelligence that escaped from a computer system

Maybe he is going to die...

God damnit, I just don't know. I had an idea that this whole time he really has been insane ,and that the woman he thinks is Ellie, isn't really Ellie.

Then he dies.

Thats just pretty screwed up I guess.

Anyways, I'm up to 68000 words. I hope to finish this weekend. We'll see.

Mitch is definitely not going to die after all

Too hard right now. Too much struggle. I think I want him to have an apparent death.

I want ellie to believe he's gone, but he really isn't. I'll allude to that in the epilogue, but the book will be finished and wrapped neatly without the epilogue.

Might even have some time for a moving close to the book.

A quick update

Its Wednesday. Finally got around to doing some more writing again. I've written the entirety of the "Mitch Meets Ellie" scene.

Mitch is going to appear to die but not actually die... Maybe. I'm not sure. The end of the book is murky at the moment.

Anyways, up to 64000 words.. 254 pages. Crazy huh?

Note: Am I insane?

I had a thought. What if Ellie becomes the Telamon at the end of the book?

In addition: The book needs to be more about Mitch trying to piece togethor the disappearance of his wife and bringing those who killed her to justice. Not "just going out around the world".