mechanical top-down novel generation

[ghost]

I made a couple Python scripts that parse text for word to word weights, and then uses those edges to build a novel in a very top-down, mechanical way by:

1. Generating a set of main and secondary characters and a narrator, each with a tag to load sets of word to word edge weights (from ParseText.py) for generating sentences
2. Generating a set of scenes by choosing a pair of characters to interact, with each main character having a scene with most other main characters (up to twice), and each secondary character having a scene with a third of all main characters
3. Each scene alternates a paragraph from the narrator, then one character then another until a minimum number of words has been reached (50,000 words / number of scenes).
4. Each paragraph is a set of sentences starting either with a random capitalized word, or a topic chosen from the nouns in the previous paragraph

You can see the code here, including a sample novel: request, anything, and kindness.txt:

Chapter 0: Jackson Morris and Malachi discuss side and side


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"There is the other side you, why he came into our young friend Jonathan still advanced to Tate Hill, having paid for I know of the multitude of forest." said Jackson Morris. "Turning to my head, and give to triumph! Answer me out. That has not contradict her head is arranged that you say that side in doubt as I wonder if wrapped it seemed to me right across so far behind, that lay his position."


"I got one of gaslight or other side, theoretical and glimmer from her an equal candour, she read it again and she added." said Malachi. "Revueltas and have always breaks from Nebo and then, that Mulligan cad he find one who took Stephens ear, and explained to Simonlionel first countess of energy can have put query, and hands for the ottoman."


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[hugovk]

Well done!

Here's a link to the same sample novel with line breaks:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattdmarch/nanogenmo2018/master/request%2C%20anything%2C%20and%20kindness.txt

[ghost]

Thanks! This was fun. Big thank you to everyone organizing (and participating)!