One of the segments in this year’s PBS special, “Alive from Pop!Tech”, (specifically the segment with Ed Castronova and Ivan Marovic) inspired a viewer in New Jersey to write a novel for the National Novel Writing Month! The novel, called “Ursula Unplugged”, is set 200 years in the future and follows two online friends whose relationship starts through a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.

You can track the author’s progress as she writes the novel. Currently, she is at about 22,349 words. The goal for all the novels is to reach 50,000 words.

Here’s the story — see the line(s) about us about halfway down:

Glad to see that Pop!Tech continues to inspire people in big and small ways…