I want to use this to document everything. And it should let me do writing prompts through enabling generators. Like for a character’s personality including positive and negative traits. That can be used to inform a particular prompt being generated. The generators would be standalone but I’ll build them up as underpinned by the world of synapse sovereign to start with, so they are coherent across multiple generators.
The generators would be super cool if I could connect them in some way to reference each other for more complicated prompts – like practising writing a description of a place but through a character’s point of view – that prompt should give me set up pre-generated details on the environment itself, but also a character and their personality – they may come from several individual generators and then be joined at a template level.
I could use a pattern substitution process along with some procedural generation logic to fill out short stories too and branch into generative narrative. Dungeons and Dragons rules would be a guide.
I guess ideally the idea is to be able to explore this science fantasy world expansively, without the burden of creativity being entirely converging on me at one time – I can put constraints together ahead of time and limit what I need to be creative about to only specific areas, and the rest will fall into place through the procgen.
So three pillars are
- Documentation (how I build the site, how I design the generators and framework)
- Worldbuilding (immersion in science fantasy, short stories)
- Prompt generation and writing practise
So far I’ve done this stuff to get set up:
- Bought a wordpress.org website and chosen a domain plan through Hostinger (WP recommended)
- Completed initial registration and set up steps through the admin console
- Written this post
Next I want to understand how I can set up individual generators for use across the website.
My goal for the generators is this:
- Easy to maintain / easy to use
- Simple / clean code
- Vanilla JavaScript
- Secure against hackers