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NaNoGenMo / 2020

National Novel Generation Month, 2020 edition.
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NaNo MetaPoetry #32

Open HazelMeades opened 3 years ago

HazelMeades commented 3 years ago

I've done NaNoWriMo successfully a few times and feel like it is now time to move onto more confusing ventures! This is my first time participating in NaNoGenMo. I'm looking forward to figuring out what on earth I'll make with my novice Python skills. Will it be AI generated fanfiction? Will it be a horror novel based on cookery websites? Who knows? Not me! :D

HazelMeades commented 3 years ago

I decided to start off NNGM with a incredibly meta warmup exercise, just to get into the coding spirit and remind myself how Python works. I followed this handy tutorial and turned all my previous NaNoWriMo attempts (finished and unfinished) into one big NaNo word salad (through the Markovify library).

Every now and then the code spits out a line that sorta makes sense.

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Now to try and make limericks out of the BBC website!

HazelMeades commented 3 years ago

Turns out that making limericks from the BBC website is a tad ambitious for my coding skills, so I'm trying to generate 50k's worth of haiku instead. I'm generating haikus in my warmup dataset (via another handy tutorial) to get me started. It's been a bit hit and miss so far - it doesn't always get the syllable count right. Here are a couple of the better examples:

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HazelMeades commented 3 years ago

I tried adding titles to the haikus. I haven't got the capitalisation right yet, but I do quite like the sentiment of this one.

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HazelMeades commented 3 years ago

I looped the haikus and hit the 50k word count! You can check out the source code here and the PDF result here. I decided to stick with using my own writing for the dataset to get around copyright issues with other source material.

I might have a play around with making this more interactive in the future (and better formatted), but I'm done for now. :)