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Progzine
What if …
Welcome to the Progzine talk!
Page 1 - HOW TO do a thing SO THAT YOU CAN outcome of doing the thing
Page 2 - Describe the problem this how-to solves. What's the pain?
Page 3 - What does after look like? What supplies are needed to start?
What is Tracery?
Tracery in action
What is a zine?
What is Pen & Paper?
What is Wavelength Conf?
Page 4 - How to start, keep going...
Page 5 - Find a text editor & Tracery framework
Page 6 - Write the bot and run it
Hand-write a "final draft"
Convert it into a Tracery grammar
Identify "synonyms" and turn them into placeholders
Add more options for the placeholders
Generate variations
Page 7 - Let's make a bot-zine-bot-zine!
Hand-write a "final draft"
Tracery grammar
Identify "synonyms" and turn them into placeholders
Add more options for the placeholders
Generate variations
Page 8 - Your turn!
Back cover - To find out more, follow me
Let's transcribe that zine's text into a "final draft". (For simplicity, I'll limit the scope to the first few pages.)
Front cover #
How-to "Generate a How-To Zine" Zine
A
Wavelength
Progzine Template
Page 1 #
How-to
write a 🤖 bot
that makes 📓 zines
SO THAT YOU CAN
make the best
zine-ziner-zines
Page 2 #
I have many ideas on
how to craft a zine ,
but struggle with picking
the best phrasing.
Page 3 #
With a 🤖 Tracery bot,
I can generate
many different phrasings
and pick my favorites to draw!
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