Writing novels using Perl
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Transcript: English(auto-generated)
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This is me. And that's all I'm going to say about me. You know, I hate it when people put a slide saying this and that. I will put the extractor, whatever. I hate it. So, what I'm going to do is to give you a muse, to entertain, to give you some advice for a while. And that's, I think that's all you need to know.
00:23
So first thing, do you want to be a writer? Do you want to write? Who wants to be a writer? Do you want to be a writer? Okay, I'm going to give you a very useful tool for writing. This is not any pencil, it sounds IKEA pencil. It's made by Swedish craftsmen, painfully.
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It's so obvious that many people want to be a writer. In fact, you're probably a writer already. So, there is literature everywhere. You don't find literature in Twitter, you don't find literature in blogs, also in reviews.
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Anywhere, all over the place. People write all the time. Only they don't write in long form. They don't write novels, they don't write big, non-fiction books, whatever. I'm going to concentrate mainly on the artistic part. On the part where you actually write a novel. And I'm going to talk about that.
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Why do you write? Why do people write? Do people write? Because they want to be loved. Right? IKEA is a Peruvian writer. Actually, this guy doesn't write too much. So he copies the spectrality codes. But you don't have to do that.
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You don't have to copy your way to fame and fortune and everything. You have to use only three things. I'll come to that later. One thing is writing. The other thing is publishing. The other thing is finishing. Start with something from the very beginning.
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Coming to the end. Start with something that's more or less good enough. Something that works. It's a different kettle of fish that you have to do. Right? I actually write. I know many people who write. Many people start writing. Many people say, I have a novel in my head. People say that people write not because they want it,
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but because they need it. They have a novel in their head. They want to see that novel. To see that novel, to see those characters, they have to make it. Just write it, shoot it, publish it, crochet it, saute it, whatever. Make. So you have to make. I'm Per. So you have to do that. Just make lots of things. Good things.
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Start writing. And some other things. So what do you need to start making? Right? You need something like this? A sinta. Which is a drink that's followed by writers from the world. There's a single thing you need to be a writer.
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This is the most important thing you need to be a writer. Let me see if you find it. All these personal writers, what do they have in common? What? Wild hair.
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Correct. Wild hair. You get another. But this time I'm not going to give you a whole thing. I'm going to give you the best one from Cancun. It's a notebook. I did it first from a photo in Cancun. So here you have it. And then you have both things you need to be a writer. You have the notebook and you have the pencil. And that's it.
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So exactly. You need great hair. Or wild hair. Or fabulous hair. Actually, do you know the first one I showed here? Maybe I'll show it back. Who's this guy?
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Charles Stross. So he's a pair monger. He's a sippan also. And he's also a writer. A very good writer. So I'll come to him later on. Anyways. Not everybody can have great hair, right? For instance, I can't. I have a sole patch. I grew it.
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Only for this sole. But if you don't have great hair, what do you need to be a writer? You need laziness, impatience, and of course, hubris. Hubris is something that everybody has. He wants to create a work. He wants to do something that's special. He wants to populate that work with little characters that do whatever you want sometimes.
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So, hair is then an excellent tool for being a writer. First, you want to write something that you want to do now. So I'm going to talk about my latest book. Because the scariest moment is always just before you start. People are afraid of the blank page.
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When they see a blank page, they put it here. They say, huh? Blank page. So you have to be very patient to start. You need something to make you start. And then, I mean, everything goes down. Nothing from there. So, I'm going to talk about my latest book, right? Every writer, when he talks about anything,
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he always talks about his books. So I'm going to talk about my book. It's a very interesting book. This is what people say about my book. It reflects the caste of modern life. You never know what's going to come next. The authors go forth circle with this. This is my book.
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I wrote it with a few lines of code. It's this book, Book of P. It's published in Amazon. You can buy it in Amazon. Nobody has ever known it. I don't expect anybody to do it. But it's there. It's basically a book with the digits of P. So it says, here comes a 3, then a 1, then a 4, then a 2, then a 3, then another 4.
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And I wrote it like this. That's using Perl. This is the first piece of code that I'm going to do. It's going to be very difficult. It shows you how Perl can be used for anything at all. And also how some patterns in Perl, like regular expression,
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are very useful to do a huge variety of things. Basically what it does is it takes P, a file with 9,999 digits of P, picks them up. And then what it says is it finds patterns like two 3s, three 2s, whatever,
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and it substitutes those patterns by the name of the digits plus some random phrase. Like, here comes four 3s, and then wait for it, three 4s, and then whatever, just a comma, whatever. It's random. Every time you run this script, you get a new book, right? You could publish them all.
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Nobody would buy them, and I know positively that nobody ever is going to read them. Maybe somebody would, but nobody ever is going to read them. But here you have it. It's a little bit normal actually, publishing GitHub. It's very interesting because I didn't... I was inspired by some other...
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I mean, the same thing that was done before in Spanish. I was also a Periscope. I read it a little bit and made it a little bit shorter, so I carried down to basically those lines. I was published before, and this guy published 10,000 digits in Spanish, and he sold two books, which is much more than many poets can say.
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So here's a book. You can buy it. Of course, it's free. And there's a funny thing about this. You know, I had some interesting interchanges with Amazon when I went to publish it. The first thing I said, there was an author, right? So I just wanted to be the editor,
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and then they told me, you don't have an author in your book. I said, no, there's no author in P. Who made P. Nobody made P. Okay, I go with that, and I put my name and the name of my colleague, and her, as an author. And then it came back. I wanted to put it into the public domain,
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because to me, it's P. Can it not be in the public domain? And then they told me, okay, if you want it to be in the public domain, you must tell me the name of the authors and when they die. So the author of P,
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for some religions, it's to be a god. For some others, it's the gods of mathematics. For some other religions, it's just the devil. And then, did it die? I mean, okay, it's a god. So it never dies. Or it's not alive. So what can I say? I mean, they were very strong. They accepted it,
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and they eventually allowed me to publish it, and actually, you can see it in all the Amazon books. And they call this right here. I mean, it's very, it's justified with lots of numbers. But I mean, you can do any variation of this. You can do the book of E. You can do the book, if you're physical, you're into the trans constant.
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You can do anything. I mean, you have a whole series. But, this is not a book. I mean, it doesn't have a plot, it doesn't have anything like that. There's another way of writing a book. There's another way of impatiently of making your laziness work for you and write a book for you.
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Instead of writing a book, generate it. There is a whole month, the month of November, it's called the National Novel Generating Month. So people start generating novels all the time. How do they do it? Many, oh, I can't see this. So I take out the
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Tulum. Now it's better. What is this? Very interesting. This was published by Charles Strauss, the guy I told you for. He's a pair of 18 of pair. He writes in pair.
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And he published it last December. The basic idea is this. You have a huge corpus of things that are in the correct domain. And what you do is you measure the number of times a word appears behind one word or two words or three words. Okay, that's called a Markov chain, right? Algorithmic Markov chain,
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which is an excellent volume, which is in sigma, does that for you. So instead of working with a single, with a single novel or with a single corpus of writing, like, let's say, you know, or the works by Lovecraft, he makes two different things. The Bible
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and all the works by Lovecraft. And he came with Love Bible. It's not the Bible of love. It's the Bible of Lovecraft. And it was all like this. It's very easy. You first analyze the stuff, okay? So what you do is you have the two files, two text files with lots of things.
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And what you do is you generate some random words and let the algorithm chain some other words. So you pick the first word, then the algorithm picks the one word that's most frequent or maybe not so frequent after that and then so and so forth and you create that whole chain. Okay? And you write a book, right?
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It's Love Bible, a whole book. It's kind of, it's been known, I mean, many different ways. It's just a matter of choosing two funny things or two completely different things to mix. It was created initially with a program and it was mixed with the two minds
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and it was done with this, with the Bible, but you can do it pretty much with anything. But you can also do this. Read the classics and then rewrite them. This is taken from a book called Android Karenina. This is the Karenina, that's Android. It was a Russian woman who was in love
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with a German Android. Or maybe I'm drawn off the cup. I haven't read it, so I mean, there's Android somewhere. But there's a whole bunch of books. For instance, Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies. And somewhere like that. It's nice to see that because when you have a word
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that's in the public domain like Anna Karenina because we think the last century or you have Pride and Prejudice, all those things are in the public domain I'll talk to that later because there's an interesting lesson there. You can do anything you want in this country. So you can mix and match them, you can republish, you can do a theater, or you can rewrite them.
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So read the classics and then write them. Of course. You seem fair. And you will say, ah, rewriting the classics is something that's not good. That's not good. It's not a good author sheet. What do you think about this? Do you think it's related to some classic?
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It's Hamlet. Star Wars is Hamlet. It's based on the Shakespeare story. I mean, not a story about 2B or not 2B or it could be there, but it so happens that in Hamlet there's one guy that kills his brother. That brother killed Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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And then they weren't brothers, but they were Jedi brothers. I mean, it's not exactly the same. You're writing it, so it's not exactly the same. And then as a ghost comes to his son and tells him Obi-Wan Kenobi came to Luke Skywalker and told him that Darth Vader had killed him
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and then Anakin is, I mean, Luke Skywalker kills Anakin Skywalker. That's Hamlet. So it's been done all the time. And Hamlet has been done endless times. Many classics you see, you see them maybe to a movie, but sometimes there are, The Lion King, for instance. The Lion King is also the story of Hamlet. So it's done all the time.
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Already we can do it better with Perk. Of course, there's a very similar between Pierre Menard and Otharol de Quixote. I don't know if you know this story. This is a story, a short story, one of the first stories that was published by Borges. And it's about a guy who wrote the Quixote. Pierre Menard
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picked up the Quixote and wrote word by word the Quixote. And then people started to review the book and say it's an excellent revision of the classic. It's not a revision, it was exactly the same thing word by word. By the way, there's another story
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related to that because somebody wrote the words of Borges and he was sued. You have to embarrass them, but whatever. And there's another story about the author of the first Chinese translation. What he did was there was some guy who knew English and started to read the English translation of the Quixote
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to another guy who didn't know English. And then this other guy started to write down whatever he interpreted from the English translation. So, one guy reading to another guy in Chinese from the English translation. And this other guy in Chinese putting it into the literature of Chinese which is apparently different from spoken Chinese.
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Of course, he came up with something that was completely different from Quixote. But the funny thing anyway, so there's a thing that you have to work but I worked at night. So, what can you do? I actually did this during this Christmas. It was my next to last book. I wrote Saraka in the Space Adventure.
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It was based on a classic Spanish book called Saraka in the Space Adventure. So, I put it into the next century and, you know, a helmet and some shiny stuff or anything. So, what can you do? First, you obtain a plain text from Putinberg.org. Then you extract geographical character names because it's important.
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All the things you have to change is the names. You can call a Space Adventure a Pepe or one or Joe or whatever. Well, you can call it Tolkien Joe but not one. Then you measure world frequencies because world frequencies give you an idea of what the story is about. If it's something constantly about horses,
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it's talking about you know, cars, whatever. You know, you have to target those worlds for changes completely. So, world frequencies, this also happens in every literary world, there's a power in the operation of world and world frequencies called the seed flow and it's also a power in how many times
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the characters show up. Then you generate their own expression for mapping frequent names and generating new ones. You have to do that. Why? Because sometimes, in a single novel, you can have hundreds, even thousands of different names, geographical names, names of names,
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names of streets, whatever. So, you have to do that. You always have to target the most frequent ones because those are the ones that are going to be seen. if you, if Madrid shows up in a space adventure book, it doesn't matter too much but I mean, if it shows up once but if it shows up over and over again,
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you will complete your character and it will throw you off. And then, what you do is you replace most frequent words or words groups you do it like this, right? The first thing you have to do is you sort all the world frequencies, right? And then you read the original file which, as I said,
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you get it from Gutenberg.org And then what you do is you first work with the these are, I mean, it's basically a substitution and what you do is you do a lower case because sometimes the words appear at the beginning of a phrase or a piece of word so you do a lower case first
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you do a comparison and then what you do is you substitute it. And then eventually these will be for names for the words will be more or less the same you capitalize it again and you put it back. The code is here right? It's everything from the source of course and there are several funny stories
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also related to this. Here in Spain April is full since December 28 so I wanted to do this as December 28 I wanted to say I'm writing a new book I mean publishing a new book I actually did it in the end but it wasn't so good for so early so first one is don't mess with copyright law What happens
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with public domain? Public domain is not the same everywhere right? So public domain exists in its form basically in the USA it doesn't exist mainly in the continental law so you can say something discussing the public domain it so happens that this story which was written at the beginning of the last century
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was publicly available in Spanish but it's not free it's not in public domain so you can't reproduce it so eventually what happened? It was published only in amazon.com amazon.co.uk and some other places that are not I mean nothing is Spanish you can't do that in Spanish that's the lesson I learned
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but the second thing of course that doesn't mean that I'm not going to do it again I just published it for that day and I pulled it off the next day so I took it off I didn't care about that that doesn't mean that I'm not going to really rewrite the book but really rewriting it as I did with Android Carina like picking up the book picking up that as a first step
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and then doing a bit of revision and things like that right but that's a second lesson that's an interesting lesson that's something that I had learned before but you should open source your novel what does it mean? it doesn't mean that you should write a free novel some people do and they do perfectly Charles Stross writes creative
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common novels for a doctoral that's correct but they don't open source it what does it mean? what do I mean by open source release early release often that means that as soon as you write the first line it should be in the open it should be out there for everybody to see right it should be also written in a way that's really a source
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like markdown do you know markdown? markdown is a very simple markup language you can write very simply to do italics and things like that you can't do complicated things but very simple things you can do it very easily and it's basically text so it could be later but later is a little bit more complicated markdown anybody can understand markdown
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I mean a header is something you write and then equal signs below it a second level header is some words and then dash it below it and so on very easy so open source your novel do it from the very beginning and do it now that's what I did actually I did it for a novel
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I wrote last summer and now I'm doing it after a novel I'm writing now you can watch the novel I wrote last summer and this is the one I'm going to talk about more or less from now on it was in English so you know basically I read it the one I'm writing now is in Spanish so you can translate it and have a look on the phone so
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github great tool for writers do you know github? do you know github? it's a great place to be I mean anybody in the other society uses it mostly any nobody nobody who writes or makes two or three people use it in the let's say humanities
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not only in but anything else law or whatever I think that github is a great tool for writers in fact I wrote an article I call it medium you can check it out there and I really think it's very very good to write in github for many reasons first reason back up you can do a
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learning software earlier because every time you write you push and it's that interposition and when I say github I say github and use it in the open not with closed repos with open rep all the time but then so happens that it's very easy to use term with github to have
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your powers all the time for instance this thing githooks do you know what githooks are? it's something that happens as soon as you do something you commit and then something happens right? it's like a trigger that's triggered whenever you do an action this is actually a post commit hook and it's
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a post commit hook for something that's interesting which is continuous publishing so github also has some excellent tools which is called github pages but github pages are basically a different branch of your master project and they are not updated automatically so if you want
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to publish immediately github pages whatever you do when you do a commit you have to do something like this right? a github hook it's something I mean it's very easy to use you just put it into a directory it's called dot hit slash hook you put it in perch you do a symbolic link I mean perfect it's no big deal
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this is a little bit very easy what does it do? basically what it does is it looks at the commit and says what have you changed? and then picks that file
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from the master branch put it into the gh pages branch add something on top some formatting instructions because it's using something called jp nevermind it does some stuff on me right? and then do another commit and put it on the on the tree on the github tree
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so as soon as you do some patch you have it published on github pages right? as soon as you write something and what I'm using here is something that's a git module that comes with git there's a there's a git top pn module that's not in cpunk but it comes with git only you have to
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look it up you have to look for it and it's not automatic to use it it's not as easy as cpunk git or it wasn't last summer maybe it is now but the thing is that I mean if you do some some magic it's just a matter of picking git dot pn from the git distribution directories and putting it putting it
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into the cpunk directories you can use it and you can do it right? so it's I mean it's not a big deal but it's something you can do it's very easy to do and it really helps you because as soon as you do something as soon as you write something it's published even there's an open source I mean it's open source the whole project is open source the text is created in common
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so it's open source it's there as soon as I write something it's there here's another I finished it I published it don't ask if I solved it it's not for sale you know anyways it's free and you can you can see it in many different ways so you don't really need to buy it unless you really really really want to
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but it's there this is the github page everything is in github so that you can fork it you can fork my own you don't like it? just fork it you can create different characters you can write a different thing you can write a play you can write a screenplay whatever ok? and it's there
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but the thing is you're publishing everything as soon as you do it words and all this guy? this guy? not you well, maybe you not me I have another very nice black pencil
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because writers were black you see? so who's this guy? Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman excellent writer very recently published The Ocean at the End of the Lane excellent anything he writes is also a book with Terry Pratchett which is called
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Good Moments which is hilarious very good writer but he says you don't have to say everything to instruction just to see if you made it right oh, but you do because Sipan
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will not let you stop you know that if you don't test it so what do you mean? I mean, this is okay what is like software development? I said it and I said it
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so editing is continuous integration so this novel has from the very beginning and the other novel I'm writing now continuous integration right? so do you know about continuous integration? everybody knows what it was? everybody knows do I tell a little bit how it works? continuous integration
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the basic idea is that you test your code before incorporating it into some master branch or whatever so continuous integration what does it do? when you do a patch it's also a hook so when you do a patch it checks out your code runs on tests and then says it says well not really runs on tests you can do some transformations
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stuff like compiling things like that and then it says it says and it says here or there or whatever or it's okay okay? it's fixed so what I did is I put continuous integration for my novel and once again I did it with Perl so what I did is to create a model
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I mean a simple module that integrated the novel and runs on tests only what kind of tests? basically typos because there are two typos of people in this world those who can edit and those who can't so I did it with the kind of people that did it so I did it
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of course you can run it I was writing cmax of course you can display a check but you have this thing do it for you and edit with this program so what I did is I put this as a test in a module which included the model all the code is there
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right? basically what it does is it takes the text of the novel which is right here it splits the text the text into different words and then it spell checks the word it's okay
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it's the word it's okay right? so at the end every time I do a pull I get a report from from Travis CI something like this same first here number of tests is
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thirty thousand this is also the number of words you've written which is very interesting because you know your progress I mean if you listen to writers on twitter and say all the time I wrote three hundred words today I wrote one hundred words you can you can know exactly how many words you wrote today because you have it here number of tests
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is number of words right? so if you if in the previous test you have let's say twenty thousand words in this test if you have thirty thousand words you have five thousand words more you did quite a lot today so you also know when you hit the mark of doing a novella novelette whatever thirty thousand is novelette novelette more or less thirty thousand would be something like a novel
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short novel forty five thousand is more or less a novel from forty five thousand you have a big novel like Stephen King or Stiglas or whatever but then there are more things folk, king, cad and flesh these are text quality measured they are basically related to the number of different words
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we use and how the number of words increase when you increase the text so if they have a low level that means that you have a very poor vocabulary you have high level you have a good vocabulary you can have a there is such a thing as having too high a level because nobody will understand it they are jealous for instance so you must keep this
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between some level and if there is a typo and this level goes too high or too low continuous integration fails I have to go go back to work and I did it actually I mean it was like I mean something I mean it was something that was something to my laziness you written this you failed then you write then you fix it
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and then once you fix it you write maybe 100 words more or maybe just 3 words more but you keep writing and that's interesting and that's cool he said all the reports all the reports you see there are something like 300 or I don't remember how many around 200 you can see it right there you want to try something huh
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any questions so far actually for the previous book that you said well I don't want to say how many people bought it but how many hits did you have on the people downloading it thank you I mean I did it very fast and I also used a template and I didn't take out
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all the stuff that was in the people report book so when people downloaded it and said oh they should keep here learning English and what's this Jay Lee is a very good writer but he doesn't know Latin actually I did know Latin but anyways I mean they saw it and said this is maybe on 28th December 28th what was it April is full I mean December full
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so no a joke it's like a I really want to write it so I have all the text there and I want to rewrite it so about this thing the continuous integration I mean as I say if it sucks or not it's very interesting because you know the quality and you know whether eh what you have written a very particular day
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makes those indexes go up indices go up or down and that's interesting you are assessing your book by yourself you know what they say about editors they are like a father figure for a writer so I call us a father continuous integration eh this is the book right you can buy it some people have done it
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not very many I think a dozen or so but this is something that plays in your progress because when you publish something in Amazon it's published everywhere and you become a hotel not a writer hotel hotel so it's great I mean it's available on Amazon
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it's a real book it's a real story it's a template story it's about well this is hand-waving it's a film hand-waving just imagine that the Republic of Florida is independent and it's like a socialist republic and then there is a circus in that socialist republic and there is a road and then the Americans send somebody
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to retrieve that right and it's about that it's a story it was originally called Hogwarts because it's a Hogwarts story it's some hobos gathering around the fire and talking about what they did which might be true or not so they talk and talk and talk and they tell the story of this person going to get it there are murderous clowns there are
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racist people there are not so racist people there is a lot of I mean it's a short story you can buy it you can buy it but you can also hide here just go to C-PAN do C-PAN text column column hover and you have it right there in your computer then you do paradox text
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hover manual and it's a novel right there in your computer right why could they do this because it was something markdown there is something which is called basically markdown and then you have it ok it's very easy to do so funny thing about doing things is that you can compare them any way you want any way you want
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you can do it continuously you can do it all the time so poll is very similar to markdown it's actually a little bit not complicated I didn't use it originally for poll Charles Stross wrote a novel using poll instead of using it it's not so there's more I wrote another novel four or five years ago
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and I wrote a model that's called net column column which is basically a you write a journal and if you install it and you look in the test directory the whole PDF of the novel is there yes you can do it now if you want another thing is that kindle you probably think I'm assuming you're going to use something called kindle direct publishing
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and then you send your reports of what you saw what people don't want for free whatever it's an excellent report so what I did was this model which I didn't release because it changes all the time and they change the format of this a lot of time it's very useful for me because all my
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novels are out there for everybody to see so I'm going to be also transparent with what I sell what I give for free and so on so everything all myself are posted and all my self reports I did and then once it's in markdown
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you can do anything you want you don't put it in a pass like open shift or in this case I did with javastrate I can do fair lancer but I will do it later on so compare what your novel no well maybe yes
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but you can maximize your rubrics by doing it yourself help by fair and that's it thank you very much you have questions I have pencils
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shoot yeah the manual the manual the magnetic manual set a would you recommend that this one is that good or would you recommend that I mean I wrote it
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it's not so bad it's the first thing I ever beneath so it's entertaining it's funny it's going out it's there it's short so another question ok thank you very much