Found a book at the Acid Free Book Fair in LA, that I think counts as a physical #NaNoGenMo. A poet took her Google Data Takeout from browser history,
Maps, Hangout chats, purchases and more, and printed and bound them.

@darius #NaNoGenMo idea: generate 50K words worth of variations on this joke

Unfortunately I didn't fulfill my #bringbackblogs pledge (3 blog posts in January) and just managed to write one on the last possible day. But I point the blame at my elbow, which I promptly broke at the beginning of January 😅 (nearly all good now)

Anyway, here it is - my recap of participating in the the #NaNoGenMo 2022:

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-01-my-nanogenmo-project-novelopment/

( https://bringback.blog/ )

Well that’s my 2023 #nanogenmo project sorted: https://github.com/Priya22/project-dialogism-novel-corpus

I was busy defending a dissertation during much of November, so I wasn't paying as much attention to #NaNoGenMo, and it's possible I missed something. And I haven't had a chance to ask any of the participants about it, so this is all mostly speculation.

Also, GPT-3 and GPT-J are slightly harder to set up locally. There's support now, but there's lots of GPT-2 tutorials and few GPT-Neo tutorials. So if you have a month, as in #NaNoGenMo it is a bigger ask (particularly since you also have to write the novel generator).

One possibility is that it feels too impersonal: the GPT-2 models were custom trained, and it's likely that people feel like they don't have as much control. #NaNoGenMo

Something I found interesting about this year's #NaNoGenMo I that only a few people used GPT-2, and no one used a later text model that I saw.

Not sure why, but I can speculate.

Over 50 Programmers Generate 50,000-Word Novels For 9th Annual 'Nanogenmo' Event

"Since 1999 fiction writers have tried starting and finishing the composition of 50,000-word novels in November for "National Novel Writing Month". But for the last nine years, programmers have instead tried generating 50,000 word novels — and this year's edition received more than 50 entries."

#writing #fiction #NanoWriMo #NanoGenMo

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/22/12/05/0148204/over-50-programmers-generate-50000-word-novels-for-9th-annual-nanogenmo-event

Over 50 Programmers Generate 50,000-Word Novels For 9th Annual 'Nanogenmo' Event

"Since 1999 fiction writers have tried starting and finishing the composition of 50,000-word novels in November for "National Novel Writing Month". But for the last nine years, programmers have instead tried generating 50,000 word novels — and this year's edition received more than 50 entries."

#writing #fiction #NanoWriMo #NanoGenMo

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/22/12/05/0148204/over-50-programmers-generate-50000-word-novels-for-9th-annual-nanogenmo-event

Generate 50,000-Word Novels For 9th Annual #Nanogenmo Event with code.
https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2022/blob/main/README.md

I've made an HTML version of my #NaNoGenMo project, Colonnades:

https://etc.mikelynch.org/nanogenmo2022/

https://carlbettis.com/blog/view/197/november-writing
#Writing #NaNoGenMo

Haven’t really thought this out coherently yet, but I usually end up revisiting these thoughts every November when #NaNoGenMo rolls around (sadly ran out of steam this year to get very far into it, turns out teaching this narrative design summer course is really quite time consuming)

Social media parody generator:
GitHub - verachell/Social-Media-Parody-NaNoGenMo-2022: Generates >50000 words of parody of social media. Output is an html page
https://github.com/verachell/Social-Media-Parody-NaNoGenMo-2022 #nanogenmo

It is December 1 and I failed #NaNoGenMo. I didn't even have time to start. November is a crazy month to try to get anything done except letters of recommendation

But I did write one and a half chapters of a novel about a potential failure mode of longtermism. I guess I accidentally failed #NaNoWriMo too.

Finished my entry for the National Novel Generation Month 2022 #NaNoGenMo last night:
https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2022/issues/24#issuecomment-1332902573 🥳

Novelopment writes novels based on git repositories. "The brightly wondrous story of flask" reached the required 50k words. Great fun, even though (or because) the last 3 evenings were kinda stressful. 😅

Don't run the epub export on untrusted repos btw, i just saw that Jinja2 doesn't autoescape html by default :ablobgrimace:

#nlg #python #git

Finished my entry for the National Novel Generation Month 2022 #NaNoGenMo last night:
https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2022/issues/24#issuecomment-1332902573 🥳

Novelopment writes novels based on git repositories. "The brightly wondrous story of flask" reached the required 50k words. Great fun, even though (or because) the last 3 evenings were kinda stressful. 😅

Don't run the epub export on untrusted repos btw, i just saw that Jinja2 doesn't autoescape html by default :ablobgrimace:

My (admittedly late) entry for #NaNoGenMo this year is https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zqx5lPcyGCc&t=25s
A midi-fied version of an ebook with captions generated by OpenAI's Whisper voice recognition system
I love the way the sounds are nonsense until you read the captions along with them.

Found out via @ranjit that Tom Phillips has passed away - his wonderful treated novel, A Humument, was the inspiration for my most over-the-top #NaNoGenMo in 2019, I PROGNOS MEMBERS

https://mikelynch.org/2019/Nov/22/excavate/