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dariusk / NaNoGenMo-2014

National Novel Generation Month, 2014 edition.
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Like grammar for chocolate #72

Open cymatiste opened 10 years ago

cymatiste commented 10 years ago

Late to the start, and very new to all of this (in terms of practical experience anyway). My intent is to convert a cookbook into a novel by changing verbs from imperative to past tense, converting 2nd person pronouns to 3rd, and liberally scattering in adverb & adjective phrases, e.g.:

Chapter 1 - Strawberry Shortcake With a heavy heart she mixed the flour, salt, baking powder, and 3 tablespoons of the sugar in a melancholy bowl.

I have lots of ideas for how to add themes to the process to give it a more narrative feel, assuming I manage to accomplish the main task with time to spare!

dariusk commented 10 years ago

Omg I love it

eseyffarth commented 10 years ago

That's a lovely idea! Reminds me of this twitter bot: https://twitter.com/wikisext

cymatiste commented 10 years ago

LOL - yes, I guess that's the same recipe, perfect! "sext: i excitedly put my puppy in my warm area while you roughly put your puppy on soft blanket so water doesn’t drip on the floor" ... oh boy...

robinrendle commented 10 years ago

Amazing. Love this idea.

moonmilk commented 10 years ago

What a great idea!

MichaelPaulukonis commented 9 years ago

Any update? I was really looking forward to this.

enkiv2 commented 9 years ago

Michael has set up a mailing list, for those of us who are continuing with generative text stuff outside of november. It's kind of a ghost town right now -- it might be worth joining.

On Fri Dec 19 2014 at 1:40:27 PM Sarah Imrisek notifications@github.com wrote:

Thank you -- Sad to say I got blindsided by life this November, so I never started, but I'm still keen to do it unofficially in the new year!

Sarah Imrisek

416.826.9159 sarahimrisek@gmail.com

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Michael Paulukonis < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Any update? I was really looking forward to this.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub < https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/72#issuecomment-67677971>

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— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/72#issuecomment-67678464 .

cymatiste commented 9 years ago

(reposting without my phone#-oops) Thank you -- Sad to say I got blindsided by life this November, so I never started, but I'm still keen to do it unofficially in the new year!

cymatiste commented 9 years ago

Thanks enkiv2, I've joined the list!