Note: This fiction generator
manipulates 4 strings of text. Each
textbox can contain as much text as you want to put into it, the contents
treated as a separate entity. If you want to put separate stories into
every box, then you'll wind up with 28 interwoven stories. If you want to make
every row a related story, then you'll wind up with 4 interwoven stories. If
you want to make each row a part of one story, then you'll wind up with 4
interwoven levels of one story. I suggest possibilities two and three are the
best uses of the grid. In order to interweave 28 stories, you'd have to
have some common thing happening in all 28 boxes. Enough. Remember that
if you want the text to persist, save this form to your favorites folder.
Also remember that once you have original text in the boxes and want to edit it,
don't click on any of the radio buttons. I've placed question marks after each
text box. When your mouse goes over the question mark, a window pops up to offer
you help on the text box and even, in some cases, gives you some text to paste
into the box. Ignore the help boxes for now. I might get them to sync after a
few months, but for now, forget them.
This group of radio buttons controls the
internal sequence level of each row. If you want every row to have the same
sequence level, then only choose a button from each row once. If you want to
change the sequence for each row, click 7 buttons here and then go to the row
in question and click one of the mode buttons. You can have 4 different
internal sequence levels. All these buttons do, though, is give you different
abstract suggestions about what to put in the box.
1st box situation
subject
tension
conflict
action
extension
feedback
disruption
twist
2nd box situation
subject
tension
conflict
action
extension
feedback
disruption
twist
3rd box situation
subject
tension
conflict
action
extension
feedback
disruption
twist
4th box situation
subject
tension
conflict
action
extension
feedback
disruption
twist
5th box situation
subject
tension
conflict
action
extension
feedback
disruption
twist
6th box situation
subject
tension
conflict
action
extension
feedback
disruption
twist
7th box situation
subject
tension
conflict
action
extension
feedback
disruption
twist
String 1 mode:
setting
character
mood
theme
plot
metaphor
story
noise
warp
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String 2 mode:
setting
character
mood
theme
plot
metaphor
story
noise
warp
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String 3 mode:
setting
character
mood
theme
plot
metaphor
story
noise
warp
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String 4 mode:
setting
character
mood
theme
plot
metaphor
story
noise
warp
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Select all, copy, and paste into word processor
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forward buttons - letters equal linear sequence of
strings
back buttons - reverses internal sequence of strings