oaklandwatch [soylentnews.org] writes:
Last month 188 entries turned up on GitHub in an event
challenging programmers to write computer code to generate 50,000-word novels [thenewstack.io]. "The 'novel' is defined however you want," wrote the organizer for
National Novel-Generating Month [github.com]. "It could be 50,000 repetitions of the word 'meow.' It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg. It doesn't matter, as long as it's 50k+ words." Novels were submitted as Issues on the event's GitHub repository, and this year saw intriguing titles like "The Hero with Arbitrarily-Many Faces," "THE CYBERWHALE – a cyberpunk version of Moby Dick," and "Terms and Conditions – a Legal Thriller."
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