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Generator design and preliminary coding by me*, refinement and condensing done by my partner @myrialux. Contact me: my email address is on my Dreamwidth profile page, or tweet @telophase.
* Earlier generators originally based on code from Seventh Sanctum.
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I also do book & ebook covers for self-published authors as Augusta Scarlett.
26 September 2017 TEN YEARS OLD! Same generator, different look, new URL! Generator look updated, HTTPS added, redirect to new location added. Also, I now do cover designs and original paintings for self-published and small press books, in case you get inspired to write ;).
Timelinesome time in 2015 I created a Tumblr bot that reposts the Twitter prompts hourly, if you'd prefer to follow that: RandomStoryPrompts.tumblr.com
6/19/2015 I just created a Twitter bot that tweets a random writing prompt inspired by the Cool Bits Generator once per hour. Follow it at @RandomPrompts. Tweet @telophase to get my attention if it misbehaves.
11/19/2007 Added more Cool Bits.
10/31/2007 Added a new element: motivation. Also added new sentence structures to use it.
6/23/2007 Just created a Random Art Prompt Generator.
5/7/2007 Updated the generator with more Cool Bits that were sent to me.
5/2/2007 A friend is soliciting cracktastic bits for a Cracktastic Bits Story Generator. If you're so inclined, wander on over and comment with your favorite out-there elements from fiction of all sorts.
OriginsIn June 2006 Rachel Manija Brown made a Livejournal post entitled "Writing by Cool Bit". In it, she mentions the essay she wrote to include in our self-published manga-style comic Project Blue Rose, "which is mostly about shame and shamelessness, but also explains how the story is basically a patchwork of elements and images which I thought were cool or sexy or touching." She goes on to ask: What are your cool bits? What are the themes and stories and images and moments that you love to see?
A number of people replied with lists of their favorite cool bits and narrative kinks. I threatened to come up with a Random Cool Bits Story Generator,and now I finally have. It's got over 500 individual Cool Bits I pulled from the comments in that post. As with all random generators, it produces a lot of misses, a few hits, a few hysterically funny elements...and some things that you could swear you'd read in a manga or fic. Take it with a grain of salt, but you can rest assured there's someone out there who'd read it.
--Telophase, 30 April 2007