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Creating a Story
The first and most obvious step to creating a story is to actually have one in
mind, but actual writing is outside the scope of this help :)
Once you've got a story in mind and/or written out, the next step is to decide
which words you will get from the user. Using the word list on the left side of
the "Create a Story" page, you can insert tags for
different word types. For example, if you type
There was a [n] in the back seat of the car.
then the user will be presented with an input for a noun. If you changed the
above code to
There was a [a] [n] in the back seat of the car.
then the user will be presented with inputs for both an adjective and a noun.
If you don't quite understand how this works, try playing through a few
stories and then clicking the "View the source for this story" link on them
as you play through, to see how they were made.
If you're ever unsure of what a word type is, click the examples
link in the left panel to see a few examples of what to expect a user to input;
the user will see the same examples when he or she is filling out your story.
Variables
Variables are used when you need a user to enter a word once, but that same
word needs to appear multiple times.
This would probably be best demonstrated with an example. If the sentence you
have in mind is actually something like "I like black cats, but black cats
don't like me," then you can do:
I like [a black] [ns cats], but [a black] [ns cats] don't like
me.
In the above code, a and ns respectively represent an
adjective and a plural noun; but the important concept here is where we have
black and cats. When present, the second word inside
[]s represents the "name" for that word. Long story short, the user will only
enter an adjective once for [a black] but every time that [a
black] is in your story, that same adjective will take its place. Of
course, you can use any word in place of black and
cats; it's just easier to read this way.
If you still aren't clear on this, look through the source for some
stories to compare what you type, just to see how it works.
Things to Know
- HTML is not allowed at all in the stories.
- Some dirty humor is allowed, within reason. Excessive trash will be
removed.
- If you have any further questions, send an email to mlgen -at- pieoncar
-dot- com.
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Flagging
On some (many?) of the pages here, you will see a link titled "Flag this
entry." When you flag an entry, you're basically saying that one of the
people who run this site need to review it. Some pages have already been
reviewed by the staff, and thus will not have an option to flag the entry.
Good Reasons to Flag
- The entry is filled with hateful, racist, etc. comments.
- The entry doesn't make sense regardless of the words used.
- The entry is an attempt to promote outside websites, etc.
- The entry is made up of very little input compared to the text that
doesn't change.
Bad Reasons to Flag
- You didn't think the entry was very funny.
- There are a couple spelling errors.
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