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Open hugovk opened this issue 7 years ago • 7 comments

Not sure what to do yet, some throwaway ideas:

  • [x] A boring diary. Or is it a rubbish reference book? Just clock times: "The time is twelve am. Twelve oh one am. Twelve oh two pm... And thirty seconds."
  • [ ] Chained tweets: 1. Find tweet, 2. find tweet starting with the previous tweet's last word, 3. repeat to 50k. Maybe ignore tweets with @ or links or #.
  • [x] Dear Santa, I have been good this year and want: 1. [from Twitter, I want [thing]], 2. repeat to 50k.
  • [ ] A poet, struggling, gets stuck with words, tries others. Modify an existing epic poem, use Wordnik's related words.
  • [x] A 50k version of Leevi and the Leavings' "Onnelliset". [Done in 2019]
  • [ ] A Dictionary of Loved and Hated words. A bit like A Dictionary of Not-A-Words but using @lovihatibot instead: perhaps a loved then a hated word. Perhaps a loved, and then the same word hated, with example tweets. Perhaps alongside definitions. Perhaps definitions. Perhaps a chronological report thing to show top ones from each month over the last year.
  • [ ] A friend says he has trouble reading Russian literature due to keeping track of the unfamiliar names. So perhaps rewrite some Dostoyevsky with names like Dennis, Michelle.

My stuff from 2015 and 2014.

hugovk avatar Oct 26 '16 04:10 hugovk

A variant on clock times was done in 2013 by Nick Monfort - World Clock [notes + python source]

Also available POD: http://www.harvard.com/book/world_clock/

An interesting lecture (transcription at link) on the problems of translating World Clock.

MichaelPaulukonis avatar Oct 26 '16 13:10 MichaelPaulukonis

It sounds like you could get all of these done by December :-)

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:40 AM Hugo [email protected] wrote:

Not sure what to do yet, some throwaway ideas:

  • A poet, struggling, gets stuck with words, tries others. Modify an existing epic poem, use Wordnik's related words.
  • Dear Santa, I have been good this year and want: 1. , 2. repeat to 50k.
  • Chained tweets: 1. Find tweet, 2. find tweet starting with the previous tweet's last word, 3. repeat to 50k. Maybe ignore tweets with @ or links or #.
  • A 50k version of Lassi and the Leavings' "Onnelliset".
  • A Dictionary of Loved and Hated words. A bit like A Dictionary of Not-A-Words https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/90 but using @lovihatibot https://twitter.com/lovihatibot instead: perhaps a loved then a hated word. Perhaps a loved, and then the same word hated, with example tweets. Perhaps alongside definitions. Perhaps definitions. Perhaps a chronological report thing to show top ones from each month over the last year.
  • A boring diary. Or is it a rubbish reference book? Just clock times: "The time is twelve am. Twelve oh one am. Twelve oh two pm... And thirty seconds."
  • A friend says he has trouble reading Russian literature due to keeping track of the unfamiliar names. So perhaps rewrite some Dostoyevsky with names like Dennis, Michelle.

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enkiv2 avatar Oct 26 '16 15:10 enkiv2

I would love to take a look at the chained tweets novel and the code, I had the same idea a few years ago but I find it a bit tricky to implement nicely. Good luck! ;)

WhiteFangs avatar Oct 31 '16 13:10 WhiteFangs

Righto, first throwaway idea thrown:

A boring diary

https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2016/issues/61

hugovk avatar Nov 01 '16 20:11 hugovk

A preview of Dear Santa:

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Perhaps I'll collect 24 chapters of 50k/24 words in case there's some variation, or maybe four times a day for a week.

hugovk avatar Nov 06 '16 13:11 hugovk

Another preview of Dear Santa, taken from during a recent victory speech:

screenshot 2016-11-14 21 16 06

And later that day:

screenshot 2016-11-14 21 16 47

hugovk avatar Nov 14 '16 19:11 hugovk

Dear Santa,

#138

hugovk avatar Nov 29 '16 20:11 hugovk