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NaNoGenMo / 2019

National Novel Generation Month, 2019 edition.
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Romantic Folklore Generator #37

Closed videlais closed 11 months ago

videlais commented 4 years ago

I'm planning to play around with the act structures of romance stories and combine them with topics from folklore. The goal is to create code that could generate a few thousands words of a short story and build an anthology either based on the same initial seed theme or as grouped around the decided sexuality of the characters from the generation.

replabjohn commented 4 years ago

Sounds interesting. I tried doing something similar, but never got very far with it. You may find these articles useful for the folklore aspects:

Vladimir Propp's entry in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp#Functions

Propp's Morphology of the Folk Tale http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/propp/propp.htm

Winter Mocha Random Story Generator: Propp's Ratchet http://www.gearheadrpg.com/2018/02/26/winter-mocha-random-story-generator-propps-ratchet/

theairdemon commented 4 years ago

Proppian folktales are super interesting if you decide to go that route. Regardless, looks like it'll be a really interesting project, good luck!