Tariq Ali

# NaNoGenMo 2016 and My Predictions About Text Generation https://dev.to/tra/nanogenmo-2016-and-my-predictions-about-text-generation Disclaimer: I wrote this article to provide some basic news coverage about this year's competition.

[Repo](https://github.com/tra38/track-method) and [Story With Placeholder Text (10,453 words)](https://github.com/tra38/track-method/blob/7ef223bd441af67f5b1fa4afc37e21a8e781e458/story.md). I'm going to have to slowly replace the placeholder text with text to "glue" the different passages together...as well as add an...

- [Human-Readable Short Story](https://github.com/tra38/track-method/blob/master/story.md), 13,606 words - [5 Different Short Stories, Combined Into One Novel](https://github.com/tra38/track-method/blob/master/novel.md), 67,408 words Consider this done, I guess. There's three obvious conclusions I can draw from...

I didn't even think of that. Wikiquotes probably could be leveraged, depending on how well you can either: - sort the quotes into proper categories, or - come up with...

I gave the computer-generated novella to a human editor for review, and while the text appears readable...and he did read it, the text itself appeared too "heavy" and "hard to...

Alright, so after a year of forgetting what was actually in the novella and rediscovering [this thread](http://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=119760) where people praised it, I actually decided to read the computer-generated novella in...

> I think that anything built using manually created templates inherently has this "boring point". No matter how many templates you write, your novel will eventually have a "boring point",...

Really liked the idea. Is it possible for me to use parts of your grammar for a last-minute NaNoGenMo entry? I really liked reading the first sentence of every "section"...

Leah Henderson's blog posts: - [WORKING WITH WORD CLOUDS](https://bhilluminated.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/word-clouds/), July 18th 2017 - using "word clouds" to understand the biases and beliefs of journalists who are covering NaNoGenMo. ("Meta-press coverage",...

Also, Leah Henderson's actual name is Leah Henrickson. :oops: