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Aleatoric processes are more interesting than the results, in my opinion. Too easy and too disconnected from the human to resonate (beyond the isolated snippets
by jawon 11y ago
Aleatoric processes are more interesting than the results, in my opinion. Too easy and too disconnected from the human to resonate (beyond the isolated snippets that get trotted out, like photos of parking meters that look like faces). And that disconnection is why software like this doesn't interest me. If you know what you want to write you don't need this. If you don't know, there are better, richer, more fulfilling ways to come up with ideas than randomly permuting text.
- wwwdonohue 11y agoThat's fair. Part of anyone's acceptance of the method would have to do with their acceptance of this tenet: Producing a work of written art requires constant discovery and guessing—because all works of art are works of exploration and discovery. Thus InkWell merely seems (to me) like it would be useful as a kind of servant--a tool to show you other plausible variants of your text, and thus spur the creative process. But if you already know what you're going to write and how, then godspeed--you're in a much better situation than most writers :)