Introduction to Electronic Literature: Home

per its creator Rob Beschizza, "the dumbest publishing platform on the web."

A bunch of lists of things formatted for easy use with Tracery.

This site will help you make a Twitterbot! They're easy to make and free to run. To use it, create a Twitter account for your bot to run under and then sign in below. The bots are written in Tracery,

Robin Davis's tutorial for a more robust bot. Use some simple Python to create a bot (you can even run it on a Raspberry Pi).

Reimplemented computational poetry, electronic literature, and digital literary art that was originally developed on batch processing systems.

The ELO is the US-based scholarly body dedicated to the investigation of literature produced for the digital medium. For many, many examples, see their Directory and the three collections they have released:
Volume 1 (October 2006) | Volume 2 (February 2011) | Volume 3 (February 2016)

"House of Trust" is a generative poem, created with Ian Hatcher, to honor free libraries. Its structure is based on Alison Knowles's poem and sculpture, "A House of Dust" (1967), created in association with James Tenney and generally considered to be the first computer-generated poem.

recollected on this early morning is an electronic manuscript composed of arrays of lexia stacks. Time is elusive, as parallel trails lead to different parts of a narrative told by Dorothy Abrona McCrae, a Bay Area Figurative painter.

Limericks generated from the Case Law Access Project corpus.

Some notable bots: @pentametron, @everyword; @fckeveryword, @BlackBoughBot, @JustToSayBot, @TheCaseofTheBot, @ReallySystemBot

Collocations is a work of experimental writing that explores the disruptive implications of quantum mechanics for science, philosophy and literature. Designed for tablet computers, Collocations employs strategies of erasure, visual poetry, and algorithmically defined systems to produce a work of innumerable poetic texts.

Poem prompt generator made for Found Poetry Review's 2016 National Poetry Month IMPROMPTU series. Topics selected from the Library of Congress Children’s Subject Headings. Books selected from HathiTrust Digital Library (serials scanned from the New York Public Library’s holdings with publication year of 1916).

Nondescript is a web tool designed first to identify the user’s writing style (in terms of word frequency) from a given writing sample and message, then guide the author to make iterative changes to their message to lessen its probability of being attributed to them.

Douglas Luman's Applied Poetics, a computational writing platform which features 50 different tools you can use to transform texts.

The N+7 procedure, invented by Jean Lescure of Oulipo, involves replacing each noun in a text with the seventh one following it in a dictionary. (In French, it is also referred to as the 'S+7' procedure.) Here you can enter an English text and 15 alternative texts will be generated, from N+1, which replaces each noun with the next one in the dictionary, to N+15, which takes the 15th noun following.

Tracery is a super-simple tool and language to generate text by Kate Compton. It's been used by middle school students, humanities professors, indie game developers, professional bot makers, and lots of regular people, too.

It can do more than tweet--See the National Novel Generation Month or Patrick's revision of Hemingway's "The Age Demanded."

For the sake of this workshop we'll use Beau Gunderson's Tracery Writer interface.

Use this text for our workshop exercises:
Example 1 | Example 2 | Ideas for Practice

Modifiers:
proper articles: #job.a#
pluralize: #job.s#
capitalize initials: #job.capitalize#
camel case: #job.capitalizeAll#
There's no ALL CAPS modifier yet, but you can use the Text Mechanic Case Converter on your values before pasting them into your grammar.

An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.

Jana's Twine Links & Examples: it reflects | twine wiki | infinite click poem | Let's Go Eat | queers in love at the end of the world | ghost burger | nectar thief: cycle a

From useful tools that solve problems at work, to cutting-edge VR experiences, smart bots, and apps that help advance important causes, Glitch is a unique community where people have built over a million projects for you to discover, with new ones are popping up every day.

Sonnetizer is a program written by Ross Goodwin that generates 14-line rhyming sonnets from any text corpus

Super-simple choose-your-own-adventure authoring tool.

Play Patrick's tinychoice game "wakeup."