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Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:37 pm

Hey! I have a computer. Okay, so I rent it. And it's a desktop. But I have three flash drives.

Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:41 pm

And on my desktop I have file complete with pictures and nicknames etc of my characters, locations and plotlines

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:43 pm

Pictures?

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:49 pm

Would anyone hold me it against me if I write a program that grabs words from various sources, along with names, to form random sentences until it has passed the 50,000 word mark and run it through Word's spell and grammar check and see what hilarity and randomness pops out?

TheAnswerIs42 · Post by **TheAnswerIs42** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:01 pm

That would remind me of this.

Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:16 pm

Fredjikrang wrote:Pictures?

I ran a google image search for pictures matching the vision I had in my head of people. And I have a resource collection of various characters and places that i drew from.

Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:17 pm

hee, hee. I was the top post twice in a row.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:45 pm

Unit of Energy wrote:
Fredjikrang wrote:Pictures?
I ran a google image search for pictures matching the vision I had in my head of people. And I have a resource collection of various characters and places that i drew from.

Oh hey! I've done that!

Also: Tao, every time you say 'aye,' I grin. I love you.

That is all.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:23 am

TheAnswerIs42 wrote:That would remind me of this.

That's a cool song. I wonder if I can get my random sentence novel to be that great.

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:01 pm

Broheueoghoaeuh. Asking department chairs for money is nerve-wracking!

Tao · Post by **Tao** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:07 pm

Nanti-SARRMM wrote:Would anyone hold me it against me if I write a program that grabs words from various sources, along with names, to form random sentences until it has passed the 50,000 word mark and run it through Word's spell and grammar check and see what hilarity and randomness pops out?

Heck; bump it up from words and names to paragraphs and chapters, run a seek/replace to alter proper nouns, and you could have a best seller.

bob: I aim to please. Glad to know I hit the mark every now and again.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:30 pm

Tao wrote:Heck; bump it up from words and names to paragraphs and chapters, run a seek/replace to alter proper nouns, and you could have a best seller.

Hmmn.. paragraphs instead of sentence styles... Very good idea Tao. The only drawback from starting it is getting all my homework and studying done. (I am behind enough as it is)

(I was thinking of just having it select random sentence types; like proposition + verb + modifier or something like that, but paragraphs sound good.)

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:47 pm

Tao wrote:Heck; bump it up from words and names to paragraphs and chapters, run a seek/replace to alter proper nouns, and you could have a best seller.

bob: I aim to please. Glad to know I hit the mark every now and again.

I have read both those books, and saw very few similarities. Just so you know.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:49 pm

Fredjikrang wrote: I have read both those books, and saw very few similarities. Just so you know.

I don't know about the lost years of merlin, but from what I understand, Eragon wasn't written properly. I believe Bob explained this to me once.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:54 pm

More like lectured you on it or ranted about it. : D

I'm actually not allowed to say anything about Eragon when my parents are around. They hate that I dislike it so much.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:10 pm

May I just say that this made me laugh a lot.

Tao · Post by **Tao** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:18 pm

Fredjikrang wrote:I have read both those books, and saw very few similarities. Just so you know.

I can be more than forgiving of the Redwall series, I would find it difficult to write a fantasy series without some correlations to LotR. The Lost Years of Merlin was a good read, though I was sure I had read it before. Turns out I had, it was the cliff notes version of the Prydain Chronicles (Black Cauldron and all). Eragon's most annoying trait was the acclaim: "19 year old writer!!!" I would be hard pressed to find a chapter in it that was original. Tolkein, Anne McCaffrey, and many others should be getting heavy royalties from that book. (The second one was admittedly much better, though it took some convincing before I would even pick it up.)

Blatant plagiarism doesn't make a book bad in and of itself, in fact, it has been the lifeblood of many an artist. You just have to have the intestinal fortitude to pull it off.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:56 pm

Tao wrote:
Nanti-SARRMM wrote:Would anyone hold me it against me if I write a program that grabs words from various sources, along with names, to form random sentences until it has passed the 50,000 word mark and run it through Word's spell and grammar check and see what hilarity and randomness pops out?
Heck; bump it up from words and names to paragraphs and chapters, run a seek/replace to alter proper nouns, and you could have a best seller.

bob: I aim to please. Glad to know I hit the mark every now and again.

Hey.. I like the Lost Years of Merlin. Eragon, not so much. And Redwall, I read most of those in fifth grade, and then stopped.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:50 am

Tao wrote:
Fredjikrang wrote:I have read both those books, and saw very few similarities. Just so you know.
I can be more than forgiving of the Redwall series, I would find it difficult to write a fantasy series without some correlations to LotR. The Lost Years of Merlin was a good read, though I was sure I had read it before. Turns out I had, it was the cliff notes version of the Prydain Chronicles (Black Cauldron and all). Eragon's most annoying trait was the acclaim: "19 year old writer!!!" I would be hard pressed to find a chapter in it that was original. Tolkein, Anne McCaffrey, and many others should be getting heavy royalties from that book. (The second one was admittedly much better, though it took some convincing before I would even pick it up.)

Blatant plagiarism doesn't make a book bad in and of itself, in fact, it has been the lifeblood of many an artist. You just have to have the intestinal fortitude to pull it off.

IAWTC

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:53 am

Problem: my eyes are bloodshot for some reason and not taking too kindly to contacts.

Problem: my glasses are broken.

Problem: I can skip the choir retreat today, but I can't skip work. I'm closing.

Solution: ???