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Making progress

The beginnings of a entry...

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Just barely managed to finish a entry this year. It's less elaborate than I had hoped to make it, but it's 50k+ words and even has a vaguely coherent plot, so I'm calling it a success. :)

http://emmajuettner.com/the-forgotten-clue/

Excited for this year, I have a plan and everything: https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2023/issues/13

What I am basically trying to do is write a mystery novel where I do not know the solution until I read it, using code that approximately simulates the mechanics of the game Clue/Cluedo to determine what happens, and using Tracery grammars to slot my own writing onto that plot structure. That is my goal anyway, we'll see how it goes in practice! :)

With due to start shortly, I wanted to have a way to take a grammar and stick it on a static webpage to show it off with minimal hassle. So, I made a very basic little tracery webpage template!

Github repo: https://github.com/emmajuettner/tracery-template

An example showing the template in use, displaying my entry from last year: https://emmajuettner.com/an-expanded-meditation/

I don't know much about JS so the code is kind of cobbled together haphazardly, but it works well enough for my purposes. Feel free to suggest improvements and/or use for your own projects!