novel blending

[asakiyume]

A friend was talking about National Novel Generation Month--Not National Novel Writing Month, mind you, but National Novel Generation Month: a month spent working on code to generate a 50,000-word novel. Like a fantasy-name generator, only way harder and longer.

One technique the friend mentioned was to take the nouns from one work of fiction and replace them with the nouns from another. Like Mad Libs! Forthwith we decided to try it. We replaced nouns in For Whom the Bell Tolls [ETA: the healing angel tells me it was actually The Sun Also Rises] with nouns from Ready Player One--two books my kids had as assigned reading. I have not actually read either, I have to confess.

But I loved this line, created from that blending:

Those who live by the message-waiting indicator are destined to perish by the null-communications zone.

Let that be a warning!

Comments

[egg-shell.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It was an interesting experiment :-)

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

or rather more than cool... chilling!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes--wouldn't want to end up in the null-communications zone!

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I think one could come up with some really fruitful blends.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I don't understand it, but it sounds threatening!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Definitely ominous--could come from a YA dystopia!

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

You should never ask for whom the message-waiting indicator tolls...

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

bwahaha

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

No man is a null-communications zone unto himself.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It was a fun experiment.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I am learning a bit of programming at the moment, but sadly I lack both the skills and the time to try this, but it sounds like a lot of fun!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Even just shooting the breeze, we were thinking about ways to refine on it--like, fine-tuning it so that proper nouns were substituted for other proper nouns, etc.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

I consider myself warned.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Good. My work here is done.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :D

And what a Borgesian project.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It *is* Borghesian, isn't it!