Need to name your school? Try this.
For Example:
- The Lavishly Prep School
- The Liberal Military School of Superior People
- The Scarce School
Need to name your school? Try this.
For Example:
My geek hero, Gary Gygax died today. He’s the guy who invented Dungeons & Dragons. I almost titled this post “HP:0” or something about saving throw, but no. Better to say, “thanks Gary”. Thanks for Dungeons & Dragons, a game I played as a teen, and play now with my preteen kids.
The male offspring and I invented a chess variant after a rousing game of “regular” chess.
Behold the splendor of Queen War:
Board Setup
Movement and Capture
Game over, man, game over!
There are two ways to win.
If you have the chance to play this game, please let us know how it went and if you enjoyed it!
So you are writing the Great American Novel and need some character names? My Random Name Generator will take care of that for you. Generates American names, 10 at a time. Press “New Results” for 10 more. My generator is a modification of RandListGen.
I created this Perl Cheatsheet for myself a while ago, and recently found it again. I cleaned it up and posted it here in hopes that it might be useful to someone. It consists of brief code examples of common usage (for me), broken up into different sections. It’s in PDF format. [Updated May 24th, 2008]
I’ve mentioned Abulafia Random Generators before. Well I’ve created one: Tarot Plot Generator as a writing tool, to inspire myself with plot ideas, using the symbolism of the tarot. It details the main character and three acts with fourteen cards.
Here is an example, continued after “More”…
Main Character
Description: (Reversed) PENTACLES Knight.–An useful man; useful discoveries. Reversed: A brave man out of employment.
Past: (Reversed) CUPS Ace.–Inflexible will, unalterable law. Reversed: Unexpected change of position.
Wants: (Reversed) WANDS Knight.–A bad card; according to some readings, alienation. Reversed: For a woman, marriage, but probably frustrated.
Strength: WANDS Page.–Young man of family in search of young lady. Reversed: Bad news.
Weakness: 8. FORTITUDE.–Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honours. Reversed: Despotism, abuse if power, weakness, discord, sometimes even disgrace.
Obstacle to “wants”: CUPS Two.–Favourable in things of pleasure and business, as well as love; also wealth and honour. Reversed: Passion.
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I’ve just discovered Household Hacker, it “specializes in creating quality items with little to no money and just a bit of imagination.” Videos describe how to for example How to Charge an iPod using electrolytes and an onion:
You will need:
1. 1 White onion
2. 2 cups of Gatorade
3. Screwdriver
4. iPod and USB cable
Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
My favorite part:
Walk up to random people and say “WHAT YEAR IS THIS?” and when they tell you, get quiet and then say “Then there’s still time!” and run off.
mobsters and spies quest
to find mystery lost at sea
not science fiction
I am obsessed with Random Generators, and have been for awhile. I like the idea that a program with some algorithms and data can create something (seemingly) new. Like the Postmodern Essay Generator or the Random Slashdot Story Generator or a Random Haiku Generator.
I’ve wanted to use generators as inspiration for writing and have found the Plot Keyword Oracle at Abulafia Random Generators. Albulafia is a wiki that allows you to pretty easily create random text generators. A lot of it is geared towards Role playing games (a la Dungeons and Dragons), but I lot of it will work as inspiration for writers of all kinds. For the Plot Keyword Oracle, Robert Donoghue extracted 32,000 keywords from the Internet Movie Database and the Plot Keyword Oracle presents you with 10 keywords randomly pulled from the list. For example in one run I got:
Wow! That would be one hell of a story!