Generate me

Tracery Generated Story - Sketch #1

This was my first experience of programming generative text.  It encouraged thinking in a modular way –like a puzzle but each piece had multiple functions.

The form or structure had to be hardcoded unless you really wanted to tweak your brain with the code.  This structure did not promote new ideas of narrative arcs but new outfits for the story to live in.

I enjoyed how the code told its own story of the narrator.  It was a new way to look at the language instead of the usual, linear sentence structure.  The thought process and the organization methods are unique to each person in our class.  It was fun to see the internal dialogue between human and computer during class presentations.

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