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so on a whim darius kazemi decided to create nanogenmo, the national novel generation month, in opposition to nanowrimo. while the rest of the world writes a novel, i will be writing a program to spit out a novel. in the meantime i will be using this as a dev blog. if you don't care about that you can mute the #nanogenmo hashtag – i can't imagine it will be used for much else.

i signed up for this not fully realizing what it would entail but fuck it, i'm going through with it, so i've been reading about text manipulation algorithms and other toys for the past few hours and so far gotten nowhere. it's interesting stuff but it's hard to grasp broad algorithm descriptions without looking at working code in a language i know that doesn't use lots of libraries to be "robust." simplicity seems somewhat underrated in so-called example programs.

that said, there's some cool stuff. i have been looking at textblob and it seems very useful. dissociated press also seems like it could yield some fun, though it will almost certainly create high levels of unreadability if applied too liberally. but i think a few sprinklings could yield humorous turns.

i have decided on a style, and it may be overly ambitious but i am taking the programmer's adage of "fail early, fail often" and appending "fail hard" to the end as my approach. some of the preliminary entries are in and they're all very flippant, as two-hour preliminary entries to a "generate a fifty thousand word novel with a program" are destined to be, but i want to take this task completely seriously. i want a novel to be both readable and meaningful. i want to write a program that will write a novel about something. this is the novel i would have written had i done nanowrimo like everyone else; i'm just writing it by proxy of python.

stylistically, it will be stream of (non)consciousness. it is not required to make sense; indeed, i'm hoping most of it is disjointed, because if random free-associative meanings don't arise from the digital noise i won't feel like the "generative" aspect of the novel has been satisfied. it must have some semblance of character, of a plot, of story, but more than that it must have meaning beyond that which i write into it.

the text will be wholly original. i may take word data (or random words) from external sources but i will not steal text fragments, defined for these purposes as "more than three consecutive words, unless it's a really common or really clever phrase." (i am being very rigorous here.) i will try to hand-write as little as possible, however i suspect this is unavoidable if i want the end result to have even a remote stab at coherence.