<aside> 👨🏼‍🏫 By Zach Whalen | @zachwhalen | www.zachwhalen.net | University of Mary Washington

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<aside> 🔗 This notebook: https://bit.ly/nngm_workshop | Last Updated: March 8, 2022

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About this Document

This page is intended as a guide for a workshop on NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month). The pages linked below include several different kinds of resources, and many of them can stand alone. Others are intended to support a guided activity or process.

All told, the goal of these documents is to help more people participate in NaNoGenMo, so feel free to share this page with anyone who may be interested or adapt them for your own workshop.

All the content I've produced for this guide is hereby released under Creative-Commons CC-BY-SA License.

What to expect today

Here are some things you may accomplish by attending this workshop (or reading through this guide on your own):

Learn about the history, structure, and major themes of NaNoGenMo
Produce your first computer-generated novel
Learn several different methods for generating your next novel(s)

Part 1: Background

History and Structure of NaNoGenMo

Major Themes and Types

Further Reading

The tweet.

Part 2: Workflow

Python and Colab Notebooks

Working with Github

A Book-Shaped Bucket of Words

for w in range(50000):
	print("word ")

Part 3: Methods

Find and Replace

Distant Writing

Creative Appropriation

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