About the Prologue

[gardenof...@googlemail.com]

Hello.

If you haven't read the prologue to Social Psycho go over here:
http://socialpsycho.tumblr.com/ and then come back.

You can use this friend to ask questions about the prologue and spin
out some ideas on how you think the story develops from here.

Much love,
Marcus

[michaelocc]

Loving the concept so far. The big hook, for me, is in: "All of those
costume changes, the name changes, payments made in cash and trying to
find a signal for my mobile phone, updating everything on Twitter,
Flickr and the blog." I like the idea of a serial nutter who plays
out all of his moves through social media. It's like a Son of Sam
letters thing, but all whuffie-fied and updated. This could run and
run.

The easy and cheap thing to do would be for our anti-hero to now go
into flashbacks, relating the murders of 15 high-profile social media
douchebags (identities thinly-veiled or otherwise). But that would be
too predictable and also, dare I say it, far too risky. Much more
interesting, I think, for the victims to be fully-drawn but entirely
fictional individuals with only one thing in common with so many real
world Twitterers - the fact that they complain incessantly. Maybe it's
a troll hunt... I dunno.

More please.

/m

On Apr 15, 10:06 am, gardenoftweet...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hello.
>

> If you haven't read the prologue to Social Psycho go over here:http://socialpsycho.tumblr.com/and then come back.

[gardenof...@googlemail.com]

Hi Michael,

thanks for popping in. The idea that for the main character that I'm
working on at the moment is that he works in customer support for some
kind of online service and therefore has access to a whole bunch of
personal data. He then uses the web to get closer to these people and
plan what he's going to do.

There are two further characters in the prologue; the woman in the
corner and the policeman. I'm hoping that people will take these
characters and start to build them, maybe on a tumblr blog too.

[Kate]

Hi Marcus,

This is intriguing, am looking forward to playing a part. For some
reason, my first thought was in developing a character based on
someone close to one of the victims - their observations of the victim
as he or she is further drawn towards the perpetrator, an insight into
what led the victim to be vulnerable in the first place. Let me know
your thoughts.

What fun

Kate

p.s I'm meeting a few peeps at the pub tomorrow night as we've been
talking about creating a Twitter led mystery so looking forward to
getting my hands dirty with this.

On Apr 16, 12:06 am, gardenoftweet...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hello.
>

> If you haven't read the prologue to Social Psycho go over here:http://socialpsycho.tumblr.com/and then come back.

[Michael O'Connor Clarke]

It would kind of rock if this thing spread its tendrils through the SMEBS-o-sphere like some kind of giant ARG, with the victims having actual FB pages, Twitter accounts, etc. 

Would require a ton of effort and time to bake, but what fun indeed!

/m