Inspiration

[ikarth]

Since at this point there are hundreds of projects from past NaNoGenMos, I thought it might be a good idea to list a few of them so that people who weren't aware of them can draw some inspiration.

This is not even close to an exhaustive list. If you have a project or idea that you find inspiring (from a past NaNoGenMo or elsewhere) I encourage you to post it in this thread.

Simulations and Plot Generators

"The Swallows of Summer" by Cat's Eye Technologies
There is an Orange Here
Saga III: Another Original Play by a Computer
Stupid Plotto: the least-effort plotto expansion
Simulationist Fantasy Novel

Graphic Novels and Visual Things

Generated Detective: A NaNoGenMo Comic
The Cover of The Sun Also Rises

Literary Things

"World Clock"
The Null Earth Catalog
"Our Arrival"
cartography of known spaces
Megawatt

Recipes, Lists and Instruction Books

The Greater Book of Transmutation (A DIY Alchemy Guide)
Recipe Book Generator
A Full and Complete Reckoning of Uncommon Mythical and Monstrous Creatures

Travel Stories and guidebooks

Around the World in X Wikipedia Articles
Virgil's Commonplace Book
The Deserts of the West: A travel guide to unknown lands

Puzzles, Mazes, and Games

The Gamebook of Dungeon Tropes
Script for The Swallows of Summer
How Hannah Solved The Twelve-Disk Tower of Hanoi

Text transformation (Markov chains, WordNet, word2vec, Bayesian Poisoning...)

Abscission
In Dialogue
I'm in, and I'm doing horrible things to fanfiction.
Cheating pseudo-entry: Vocabulary mashup
It takes a "Village" to translate "Hamlet"
Character Swap and The Adventures of Charlotte Holmes
Even More Ultraviolent Homer (aka Homeric Violence script)

Statistics and other interesting corpora

The Atheists Who Believe In God

Neural Networks

Neuralgae
Constitution in Armenian generated by char-rnn

Twitter searches as corpus

I got an alligator for a pet by @pentametron
And then I will.

Text expansion and grammars

"Aggressive Passive"
Redwreath and Goldstar Have Traveled to Deathsgate (by zarf)
Expand-filter: a novel-length expansion of a sentence

Story Compilers

A Time for Destiny: The Illustrious Career of Serenity Starlight Warhammer O'James during her First Three Years in the Space Fighters
Goal-driven use of scenes and sequels for capers

50000 Meows

The simple solution
Fake press coverage of NaNoGenMo: a novel

[superMDguy]

Wow, these are really good! Thanks.

[tra38]

If you have a project or idea that you find inspiring (from a past NaNoGenMo or elsewhere) I encourage you to post it in this thread.

While it was a project of my own, (NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0 was very inspiring for me because it illustrated the power of rearranging paragraphs in an existing essay to create a new essay with a new "tone". This approach shouldn't work as well as it does, yet humans' tendencies to see patterns where none exist ("apophenia") makes the approach worthwhile and useful.

Most of my text experiments since November were based on selecting paragraphs from a corpus and randomly arranging them, and ultimately, I built a Ruby gem called Prolefeed that automates the process of rearranging content. And I'll focus on rearranging user content in the future, probably by using Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s plot curves and sentiment analysis. There are limits to inspiration though...you don't want to be stuck in a local maxima by only using one technique over and over.

Of course, "(NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0" was inspired by "Fake press coverage of NaNoGenMo: a novel". Inspiration tends to beget other inspirations.

[enkiv2]

"Fake Press Coverage" should probably be classified under templates &
expansion (since it uses rather complex templating), and "stupid plotto"
should probably be classified under "50000 meows" (since it's just random
entries run through existing filters).

I recommend placing "scene sequel" under simulation, though, since it's a
goal-directed planner just like SAGA.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:32 PM Tariq Ali notifications@github.com wrote:

If you have a project or idea that you find inspiring (from a past
NaNoGenMo or elsewhere) I encourage you to post it in this thread.

While it was a project of my own, (NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0
dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015#180 was very inspiring
for me because it illustrated the power of rearranging paragraphs in an
existing essay to create a new essay with a new "tone". This approach
shouldn't work as well as it does, yet humans' tendencies to see
patterns where none exist ("apophenia") makes the approach worthwhile and
useful.

Most of my text experiments since November were based on selecting
paragraphs from a corpus and randomly arranging them, and ultimately, I
built a Ruby gem called Prolefeed https://github.com/tra38/Prolefeed
that automates the process of rearranging content. And I'll focus on
rearranging user content in the focus, probably by using Kurt Vonnegut
Jr.'s plot curves
http://visual.ly/kurt-vonnegut-shapes-stories-0?utm_source=visually_embed
and sentiment analysis.

Of course, "(NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0" was inspired by "Fake press
coverage of NaNoGenMo: a novel". Inspiration tends to beget other
inspirations.

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[enkiv2]

Nevermind on moving scene/sequel: it's also reasonable to stick it under
story compilers. I just didn't see it the first time :)

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:09 AM John Ohno john.ohno@gmail.com wrote:

"Fake Press Coverage" should probably be classified under templates &
expansion (since it uses rather complex templating), and "stupid plotto"
should probably be classified under "50000 meows" (since it's just random
entries run through existing filters).

I recommend placing "scene sequel" under simulation, though, since it's a
goal-directed planner just like SAGA.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:32 PM Tariq Ali notifications@github.com
wrote:

If you have a project or idea that you find inspiring (from a past
NaNoGenMo or elsewhere) I encourage you to post it in this thread.

While it was a project of my own, (NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0
dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015#180 was very inspiring
for me because it illustrated the power of rearranging paragraphs in an
existing essay to create a new essay with a new "tone". This approach
shouldn't work as well as it does, yet humans' tendencies to see
patterns where none exist ("apophenia") makes the approach worthwhile and
useful.

Most of my text experiments since November were based on selecting
paragraphs from a corpus and randomly arranging them, and ultimately, I
built a Ruby gem called Prolefeed https://github.com/tra38/Prolefeed
that automates the process of rearranging content. And I'll focus on
rearranging user content in the focus, probably by using Kurt Vonnegut
Jr.'s plot curves
http://visual.ly/kurt-vonnegut-shapes-stories-0?utm_source=visually_embed
and sentiment analysis.

Of course, "(NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0" was inspired by "Fake press
coverage of NaNoGenMo: a novel". Inspiration tends to beget other
inspirations.

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