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For NaNoGenMo 2024, I wanted to write a children's primer in Shavian. Which I did not succeed in doing, but I produced something and I learned a lot.

( Project writeup )

( Some technical details )

I would like, at some point, to produce a Shavian alphabet picture book without the length and time restrictions of NaNoGenMo, but it won't be today.

My NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) project for 2023 is at https://github.com/mmoskowitz/NaNoGenMo-MMXXIII , and the novel itself is at https://github.com/mmoskowitz/NaNoGenMo-MMXXIII/blob/main/novel.txt

This text is a myriad of epic nonsense.

That is to say, this is 10,006 lines of Latin dactylic hexameter, which is syntactically and metrically valid, but which makes semantic sense only accidentally. From Lȳsidamus spatham honōret holarcticus almam (May Lysidamus from near the North Pole honor his nourishing sword) to Arachnae ballia depsant, (Arachnes knead custodies) this has been composed by a program that makes use of a lexicon extracted from the Latin entries in Wiktionary, and assembles them like Mad-Libs into different sentence structures within the constraints of dactylic hexameter. There is no narrative and a very limited set of sentence structures, but it was an interesting exercise to build (and does not contain any machine learning) and I hope it is enjoyable, though I certainly wouldn’t recommend trying to read any large part of it.

More info and code at the link above!

Hello! Thank you so much for writing for me!

( Things I Love, DNWs, and Fandom Prompts )

On the morning of Saturday, November 27, I was thinking about NaNoGenMo. NaNoGenMo is National Novel Generation Month, which challenges participants to use technology to generate a novel (very loosely defined) of at least 50,000 words during the month of November. While doing so, I came up with an idea that I wanted to attempt.

You may notice that coming up with the idea on the 27th gave me four days to complete the task, two of them workdays. But I succeeded!

( What I made, with links to pdfs along with an image )
( How I made it, with GitHub links )
( What I learned )

Thank you very much for writing for me!

( Consolidated Likes and DNWs )

( Ariel - Dean Friedman (Song) )

( Bad At Love - Halsey (Music Video) )

( All Alone - fun. (Song) )

( Pile Driver - Stan Ridgway (Song) )

( メギツネ | Megitsune - BABYMETAL (Music Video) )

( unfinished political song parody that needed to get out of my head )

Suggestions for rhymes in the chorus appreciated.