└── README.md /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # _This is for the 2018 NaNoGenMo. [See here](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2019) for the 2019 repo!_ 2 | 3 | # NaNoGenMo 2018 4 | 5 | [![entries: completed][~completed]](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues?q=label%3Acompleted) 6 | [![entries: preview][~preview]](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues?q=label%3Apreview) 7 | [![issues: admin][~admin]](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues?q=label%3Aadmin) 8 | [![twitter: nanogenmobot][~twitter]](https://twitter.com/nanogenmobot) 9 | 10 | [~completed]: https://img.shields.io/badge/entries-completed-0e8a16.svg 11 | [~preview]: https://img.shields.io/badge/entries-preview-c5def5.svg 12 | [~admin]: https://img.shields.io/badge/issues-admin-fef2c0.svg 13 | [~twitter]: https://img.shields.io/badge/twitter-NaNoGenMoBot-00aced.svg?logo=twitter 14 | 15 | National Novel Generation Month - based on [an idea Darius tweeted on a whim](https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/tinysubversions/status/396305662000775168), where people are challenged to write code that writes a novel. 16 | 17 |

Hey, who wants to join me in NaNoGenMo: spend the month writing code that generates a 50k word novel, share the novel & the code at the end

18 | 19 | This is the 2018 edition. For previous years see: 20 | * [2017](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017) 21 | * [2016](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2016) 22 | * [2015](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015) 23 | * [2014](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014) 24 | * [2013](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo) 25 | 26 | ## The Goal 27 | 28 | Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel of 50k+ words. This is in the spirit of [National Novel Writing Month](http://nanowrimo.org/)'s interesting [definition of a novel](https://nanowrimo.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/329132-why-50-000-words-and-how-do-you-define-novel) as 50,000 words of fiction. 29 | 30 | ## The Rules 31 | 32 | The only rule is that you share at least one novel and also your source code at the end. 33 | 34 | The source code does not have to be licensed in a particular way, so long as you share it. The code itself does not need to be on GitHub, either. We use this repo as a place to organize the community. (Convenient because many programmers have GitHub accounts and the Issues section works like a forum with excellent syntax highlighting.) 35 | 36 | The "novel" is defined however you want. It could be 50,000 repetitions of the word "meow" (and [yes it's been done!](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/50)). It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg. It doesn't matter, as long as it's 50k+ words. 37 | 38 | _Please try to respect copyright._ We're not going to police it, as ultimately it's on your head if you want to just copy/paste a Stephen King novel or whatever, but the most useful/interesting implementations are going to be ones that don't engender lawsuits. 39 | 40 | This activity starts at 12:01am GMT on Nov 1st and ends at 12:01am GMT Dec 1st. 41 | 42 | ## How to Participate 43 | 44 | [Open an issue](../../issues/new) on this repo and declare your intent to participate. _If you already have some inkling of the kind of project you'll be doing, please title your issue accordingly._ You may continually update the issue as you work over the course of the month. Feel free to post dev diaries, sample output, etc. 45 | 46 | If you have more than one project you're attempting, feel free to post a new issue for that project and keep that one up to date as well. 47 | 48 | Also feel free to comment on [other participants' issues](../../issues). 49 | 50 | ## Admins 51 | 52 | Official admins for NaNoGenMo are @dariusk, @hugovk, @MichaelPaulukonis, and @mewo2. We'll be doing our best to keep the issues section well organized and tagged. 53 | 54 | ## Resources 55 | 56 | There's [an open issue](../../issues/1) where you can add resources (libraries, corpuses, APIs, techniques, etc). 57 | 58 | There are already a ton of resources on the old resources threads for 59 | the [2013 edition](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo/issues/11), 60 | the [2014 edition](https://github.com/dariusk/nanogenmo-2014/issues/1), 61 | the [2015 edition](https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/1), 62 | the [2016 edition](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2016/issues/1), 63 | and the [2017 edition](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/1). 64 | 65 | You might want to check out [corpora](https://github.com/dariusk/corpora), a repository of public domain lists of things: animals, foods, names, occupations, countries, etc. 66 | 67 | ## That's It 68 | 69 | Have fun! 70 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------