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National Novel Generation Month, 2014 edition.
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this is not a love story #16

Open clavis-magna opened 10 years ago

clavis-magna commented 10 years ago

seeds of an idea :

In the 1999 I made an interactive installation called 'this is not a love story'. It has scant documentation [ http://miscellanea.com/artworks/this-is-not-a-love-story ] but at its heart was a short narrative in 16 episodes (and 1517 words). One of the aims of the work was to enlist the viewer to expand upon these narrative fragments and bring their own stories to mind, and in doing so, complete my own.

The exact text of that installation will act as a seed for my nanogenmo project, which will take the same title. These 1517 words will be used to find a greater narrative - the other 48483 words of the resulting text will be generated from text sourced from the open web.

repo > https://github.com/clavis-magna/this-is-not-a-love-story

js / node.js (probably) html5 / js / php js / node.js

clavis-magna commented 10 years ago

Here is a test output of things as they stand at the moment. It is producing 9000 words + or - depending on the run. Not very coherent and a long way to go to achieve narrative cohesion. (a lot of my time so far has gone into learning new tools) But hey, we are only at day 6.

https://github.com/clavis-magna/this-is-not-a-love-story/blob/master/output/this%20is%20not%20a%20love%20story%200-1-2.pdf

clavis-magna commented 10 years ago

The code now generates a crowd sourced first person narrative of around 6000 words and formats it (sort of) nicely with drop caps, chapter subtitles and all. All text is sourced from recent tweets. Still a long way to go, but I can see it taking shape through the nonsense and (apparent) randomness.

example output here > https://github.com/clavis-magna/this-is-not-a-love-story/blob/master/output/thisisnotalovestory0-2-0.pdf

clavis-magna commented 10 years ago

and just for the record another from the same code > https://github.com/clavis-magna/this-is-not-a-love-story/blob/master/output/this%20is%20not%20a%20love%20story%20v0-2-0(2).pdf

MichaelPaulukonis commented 9 years ago

Any update?

clavis-magna commented 9 years ago

I ended up being away from a computer for the second half of November, so while this project is not abandoned, it obviously did not make it in time for the end of November.