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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.
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.
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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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! ;)
A preview of Dear Santa:
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.
Another preview of Dear Santa, taken from during a recent victory speech:
And later that day: