Sunday, August 22, 2021

Another Writing Exercise and My Random Title Generator

I’ve posted another recording of a writing exercise I did. Work on upgrades to my random title generator have hit a wall.

Writing Exercise

I wrote, recorded, and posted my writing exercise "A Romantic Interlude with a Svelte Teamster".

https://soundcloud.com/dynamiclethargy/a-romantic-interlude-with-a-svelte-teamster

I felt that it turned out OK.

It was a bit of a different kind of story from what I had been writing. That was a challenge, but the idea with exercises is to stretch your thoughts a bit. Most of the exercises I’ve done turn into adventure or detective stories. I made some changes to my random title generator to make titles that pointed in other directions. Mostly the additions were toward romantic stories. I’d like to come up with changes that imply other types of stories. Suggestions are welcome.

Random Title Generator

I’ve stalled on changes to my random title generator. The changes that people suggested were to prefill the title, so you don’t need to press any of the buttons, and to have buttons to move back to earlier versions of the title.

It looks like it will be very difficult to make those changes. Usually when I take on a project like this, I can usually search and find examples on the Internet that show how to do what I want. The problem I have is that I don't know how to describe what I want. Everything I tried turned up examples that were for a different problem. I found a way to preload a random title, but it doesn’t work in WordPress.

I did make a minor change though. The first part of the title is usually something like “The Case of the…”. I felt that some people might not like to have that specific, so I put in a button that changes the first part to either a “The” or an “A(n)”.


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Sunday, August 8, 2021

"The Enigma of the Insolent Castrato" and Other Projects

My writing exercise "The Enigma of the Insolent Castrato" is done, and I posted it on SoundCloud. I made some changes to my website as well this week.

Writing Exercise

Early in the week I got down to business and wrote "The Enigma of the Insolent Castrato". It all went smoothly.

You can listen to it here: https://soundcloud.com/dynamiclethargy/the-enigma-of-the-insolent-castrato

Random Title Generator

The feedback I got from people on my random title generator made me realize that most of the titles are suggestive of detective/mystery stories. So, I added some more words to my word lists that I thought would be more suggestive of more romantic types of stories. It can generate more than 153,000,000 unique titles now. It still produces some titles that don’t make any sense. Although, they can be interesting or amusing.

I’d like to add some more words that suggest other types of stories. That has been a bit of a poser for me. If you have suggestions, I’d like to hear them. https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/random-title-generator/

Website

I cleaned up my website a bit. It has been quite a while since I updated the front page, so I needed to do that. https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca

I added a page with links to my audio recordings. I started to make it the same as my Films page, but then decided to do it differently. I think it looks cleaner. https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/audio/

That inspired me to redo the Films page the same way. I added a link to “The Zoom Bomber”. I’d forgotten that I hadn’t done that. I think the new page looks nicer. It is also easier to maintain. https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/films/



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