Idea: Story Plotter

pre shower thought: how about a visual tool for randomly generating stories where the user can drag a timeline, and depending on some input factors and properties such as setting or genre or whatever, it can generate little trials and climaxes for the characters.

for example if you choose noir for the genre, every time you drag the slider three clicks to the right, one of those clicks will be the hero moving backwards or being confused or something. It basically influences the random story generator, which is a thing I haven’t talked about yet.

The story generator is obvious and boring. But the visual tool could make it pretty fun. Playing around with the slider and parameters lets you see this story changed dynamically based on how long it is.

or something…

(Update: maybe not totally boring, and perhaps not obvious if you aren’t a programmer. But here it is)