diff --git a/content/posts/end.md b/content/posts/end.md index f4b1e81..fef5b98 100644 --- a/content/posts/end.md +++ b/content/posts/end.md @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Anyways, here's the complete list of stories in the series: The end. -I wonder if there are any other story series with a similar writing constraint, but if there aren't any, I'd encourage you to get some friends and try it out! It's not particularly difficult, and you can blame your bad writing on the constraint. I also really enjoy having a friend, Alek, who also blogs so we can often talk about each other's posts. (I should also have more guest posts. And I'm really excited for his upcoming Skyspace 3.0 rewrite of his blog!) Additionally, I think his prolific blogging has made me write more frequently. Of course, the number of blog posts doesn't really matter but the important thing is to have fun and write and share with others. So yeah, you should also find a friend and start blogging! +I wonder if there are any other story series with a similar writing constraint, but if there aren't any, I'd encourage you to get some friends and try it out! It's not particularly difficult, and you can blame your bad writing on the constraint. I also really enjoy having a friend, Alek, who also blogs so we can often talk about each other's posts. (I should also have more guest posts. And I'm really excited for his upcoming Skyspace 3.0 rewrite of his blog! You should read Skyspace. I promise Alek didn't pay me to say that.) Additionally, I think his prolific blogging has made me write more frequently. Of course, the number of blog posts doesn't really matter but the important thing is to have fun and write and share with others. So yeah, you should also find a friend and start blogging! For this series, we used [this Python script](/src/short-story.py) to verify that we were satisfying the constraint. The script has a big loophole: it strips out all numbers before doing the check, so you get free numbers! This is exploited in Short Story 4 to spam 7-11. Another workaround was that several of the stories abbreviated "instant noodles" as "IN", since the original story only uses "instant noodles" once while "in" is a common word. I generated the plot above using [another Python script](/src/short-story-wc-plot.py) using Matplotlib's semilogy, which sounds like a made-up word that means the study of Matplotlib or something. I guess I'm an expert semilogist now. The stories went from 1388 to 58 words, for an average decrease ratio of $\left(\frac{58}{1388}\right)^{1/5} \approx 0.53$ per story.