5) I reformatted my #NaNoGenMo entry from 2014 (so old!) so make it more pleasant to read, and it's actually still quite funny. Twide and Twejudice: michellefullwood.com/misc/twide-a... It's Pride and Prejudice but with dialogue replaced by words used in a similar context on Twitter.
My project, _The Living and Dead Prince_, was one of fewer than 20 completed #nanogenmo projects this year (2025).
github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
I published my #NaNoGenMo entry today, and got the coveted green "completed" label.
I learned some #Rust.
I worked out my ideas on parse tree rewriting.
I only implemented a toy example. Implementing all the ideas *while* learning a new language would've been too much.
github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
My 1st year participating in #NaNoGenMo (github.com/NaNoGenMo/2025). My contribution is _The Living and Dead Prince_ (github.com/ec2nd/The-Li...).
My official position on #Rust has long been that Rust forces you to think carefully about memory management, and sometimes that is exactly what you want, and sometimes that is exactly what you DON'T want.
#NaNoGenMo entries usually fall into the "DON'T want" category.
For #NaNoGenMo this year I decided to try to write a generator in Rust, with the goal of learning #Rust.
Why? Because, umm... one questionable idea deserves another?
To learn more about #NaNoGenMo, there are a number of yearly write ups about it that are a easy to find in a search.
I recommend reading what Zach Whalen has written about it, such as in this blog post: zachwhalen.net/posts/can-a-...
And this piece by Liza Daly: medium.com/@liza/why-i-...
For those interested in computer generated writing, including but going way beyond #AI, check out #NaNoGenMo, starting today it’s 13th yearly tradition of dedicating the month of November to writing code that generates a 50k word novel and sharing it and the code on GitHub. nanogenmo.github.io
#elit
The blurbs are among my favorite portions of my #NaNoGenMo book “Principles of Cyborg Criticism by A.I. Richards.” Read all about it— and it— here: github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
A snippet of text in the Shavian phonetic alphabet
For #NaNoGenMo, I made a stab at a Shavian primer and didn't quite succeed: cnoocy.dreamwidth.org/103400.html
My favorite #NaNoGenMo this year is "The foundation of modern magical science - collection of spell discoveries by a famous wizard" github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
Day 735: A storm forces him to seek shelter temporarily. Jose arrives in Rural Municipality of Stuartburn. He asks a local logistics and distribution manager, a swallow-tailed person named James, which way to where he is headed. The logistics and distribution manager motions towards the west. The vastness of the world makes him feel both insignificant and empowered. Distance covered today: 8.61 miles. Day 736: The sun beats down relentlessly. Jose arrives in Rural Municipality of Stuartburn. He asks a local make, an abashed person named Kelly, which way to his destination. The make smiles and gestures west.
I submitted my #NaNoGenMo entry yesterday at the last minute. A Long Walk is the story of a man's walk from Caribou, Maine to Bend, Oregon over the course of 967 days as strangers give him unreliable directions. It came out…fine. Not terribly interesting. github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
Here is the post on my #NaNoGenMo 2024 submission altsoph.medium.com/gallery-of-u... -- evolutionary search for prompts for aesthetical images generation and unsupervised generation of "guidebook" for them.
For 2024 #NaNoGenMo: THE FALL, an offhand, single-page tribute to Thomas E. Kurtz (February 22, 1928 — November 12, 2024). He was co-creator of #BASIC and made computing accessible to millions, including me.
Program, in Yabasic: nickm.com/code/fall.yab
Sample PDF: nickm.com/poems/the_fa...
I have completed a #NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) book, titled "Principles of Cyborg Criticism by A. I. Richards," which you can read here: github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
The appendices respond to a number of influential publications in the field.
Inspired by this conversation, I have completed a #NaNoGenMo book, titled "Principles of Cyborg Criticism by A. I. Richards," which you can read here: github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
Ted, you might want to check out Appendix D, in which A. I. Richards responds to your book "Distant Horizons." 😄
#NaNoGenMo runs for the length of November. The issues page on the Github site is traditionally used as the central discussion forum; the 2024 site is here: github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
![A dream page from "The Seeker", where the protagonist dreams about the concept of DECIDE. The page starts:
==> INITIATE DREAM SEQUENCE...SYSTEM READY
[DECIDE] to leave
[DECIDE] these questions by evidence and...
...reason.i [DECIDE] to take it back and start running..](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gpdihtbjfialgh4qoni4nqkg/bafkreigajq64eycbptzsj2g3lq2ubqveb33a7udtb37l2lowrudvz2ej3i)
A dream page from "The Seeker", where the protagonist dreams about the concept of DECIDE. The page starts: ==> INITIATE DREAM SEQUENCE...SYSTEM READY [DECIDE] to leave [DECIDE] these questions by evidence and... ...reason.i [DECIDE] to take it back and start running..
A page from "The Seeker" which reads: unvision : secret --- ( the glorious character over wayward conspiracies. supposedly killing her compulsive acquaintance over an undiscovered clue. utter creatures securely storing eternal aliens. a hidden hide, vigilantly stumbling. )
One of my favorite #NaNoGenMo novels is thricedotted's "The Seeker", a poetic work that I'd describe as a record of the protagonist's attempt to learn what it is to be human. From reading WikiHow.
National Novel Generation Month is a long running event that started on a whim and brought a bunch of oldschool generative text folks together to attempt the absurd task of having a computer generate an entire 50,000 word novel.
nanogenmo.github.io
#procgen #generative #textgeneration #NaNoGenMo
Anyway, #NaNoGenMo is fun even if you have only a little coding experience, or do it no-code with an LLM. And if you know something about fancy stuff like NLTK, that can be fun, too.
I did my first #NaNoGenMo entries in 2020: "51,300 Baby Names" a Reference Book with Python-generated baby names (GLYNNT WHIXEN THOWRD GRUWEN STOVEL TRYMND...) and "165 Days of Christmas" ("twelve paddlesteamers paddlesteaming, eleven effusiometers effusiometing, ten biogeographers biogeographing"…)
In 2021, I did two #NaNoGenMo projects: "1982 Fauxsumer Electronics Show Product Catalog" — a catalog of products available at a 1982 computer show that I invented. archive.org/details/1982... and "A Finite Number of Monkeys" in which one monkey tries to type Shakespeare. github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
In 2022, my #NaNoGenMo project was Broken Computer Games, which randomly mashed up different games from David Ahl's Basic Computer Games book to create BASIC games that ran (sort of?) archive.org/details/brok...
I've participated in #NaNoGenMo several times over the years and most of what I've made isn't even a "novel." In 2023, I did "Fifi's Big Adventure" a choose-your-own adventure book I wrote with ChatGPT. www.savetz.com/fifi/
It's November, which means it's time for one of my favorite distractions: #NaNoGenMo — spend the month of November writing code that writes a 50,000-word novel. The only rule is that you share at least one novel and also your source code. github.com/NaNoGenMo/2024
Generated combinatorial "story"
About to run my live demo of Humanities in the Age of AI week five: combinatorial texts as inspired by #NaNoGenMo, with thanks to @zachwhalen.bsky.social for tutorials providing some of the inspiration: anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI... #dhmakes
So...NaNoWriMo has decided to remove the "Wri" then?
#NaNoGenMo?
#NaNoNoWriMo?
#NaNoAIWriMo?
