Re: P.S.
Subject: Re: P.S.
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 9/9/11, 16:51
To: Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com>
CC: "greggatghc@gmail.com" <greggatghc@gmail.com>

I did send in something that served as a chapter outline, way back when we first started, but I'm not at all happy with it as a whole. However, I think there are a couple things in it that might give us ideas, particularly in the beginning; I'll pull it up and send to you today.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com> wrote:

There’s a second task (besides looking at your calendars) that you need to prepare for pronto:

 

I want you to think in really concrete terms about the outline of this book.  What’s the opening scene?  What comes next?  At what point do you shift back and tell the story of Gregg’s delinquent (law-breaking) prior life?  How and where do you talk about other admired hackers, how you learned the tricks of your trade?  And then a little of the history of Anonymous, and then the point at which YOU joined it, and why you did, how you did.  And then you get into the Ops themselves, right?  And your own brushes with the law close calls, tricks of the trade—all in the service of transparency, of course, and in the service of providing a path by which others, if so motivated, can follow your lead.

 

And where does the book END?  And of course it’s vital to remember that the task, always, will be to showing, through narrative examples, the principles of Anonymous—not through soap-boxing, but by showing ‘Ops’ as they unfold.  

 

Barrett, I vaguely remember a super-rough early try at such a thing—or am I misremembering?  

 

 

Dan Conaway

Literary Agent

Writers House

(212) 696-3825

 




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Barrett Brown
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