{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/11","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/11/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/11/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/11/events","html_url":"https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/11","id":113341430,"number":11,"title":"Compiler pipeline + writers' techniques = a \"proper novel\" ::blink::","user":{"login":"cpressey","id":6860877,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6860877?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpressey","html_url":"https://github.com/cpressey","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpressey/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpressey/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpressey/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpressey/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpressey/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpressey/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpressey/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpressey/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cpressey/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":30,"created_at":"2015-10-26T12:05:52Z","updated_at":"2015-11-04T15:01:03Z","closed_at":null,"body":"**Observation**: It is very difficult for the average person to read a typical NaNoGenMo-generated novel in its entirety, from beginning to end.\r\n\r\nIt's because the brain begins to tire, right?  It gets all \"I see what you did there\" and balks at facing yet [more unpredictable stuff](http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/2015/10/more-unpredictable-stuff/).\r\n\r\n**Goal**: To write a generator that generates a novel that does not succumb to this effect.\r\n\r\nYou still might not be able to read the resulting novel to the end, but, if you stop reading after the first 2 chapters, it should be because the novel is just plain _bad_, not because its aura of generativeness is burning a hole in your attention span.\r\n\r\nDownloading an existing novel from Project Gutenberg, or similarly trivial approaches, don't count.\r\n\r\nThis is, of course, a completely unrealistic goal.  But one must have *some* goal, mustn't one?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/comments/153754299","html_url":"https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/11#issuecomment-153754299","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/11","id":153754299,"user":{"login":"enkiv2","id":490009,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/490009?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/enkiv2","html_url":"https://github.com/enkiv2","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/enkiv2/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/enkiv2/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/enkiv2/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/enkiv2/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/enkiv2/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/enkiv2/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/enkiv2/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/enkiv2/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/enkiv2/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-04T15:01:03Z","updated_at":"2015-11-04T15:01:03Z","body":"It's not as though there aren't people who will do that for free (see\ncrowdsound, darwintunes, basically every quote DB, and that one project\nwhere a novelist is having randoms vote on his plot elements, along with\ntwitch plays anything). But, getting that audience isn't guaranteed and it\ntakes a while. If we didn't care about November, we could start a thing\nlike that and then just let people discover and play with it as they will.\n\nOn Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:53 AM Michael Paulukonis <notifications@github.com>\nwrote:\n\n> @hugovk <https://github.com/hugovk> - didn't we talk about this in the\n> GenerativeText list? The trouble is the fitness algorithm -- if you've got\n> one, well -- you've solved the problem. Otherwise, we're talking about\n> using human readers via Amazon's Mechanical Turk or something.\n>\n> Nothing that we little people could handle (:money:), but maybe in a few\n> years somebody can think of a sneaky way to grab eyeballs with something\n> like ReCaptcha, or Facebook will heave its vast and labyrinthine bulk in\n> its direction.\n>\n> —\n> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub\n> <https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/11#issuecomment-153751729>\n> .\n>\n"}}