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Spook_bot

Spook_bot

Spook Bot was a short-lived Twitter bot experiment. I wanted to explore the idea of using Bots as creative writing prompts or writing partners. It was a way to kickstart my own writing, but also to invite others to experiment, too. Sometimes the hardest part is getting started, and prompts can be a playful nudge in the right (write?) direction.

Setting up the logic for the bot also offered a chance to reflect on writing structure, and attempts throughout history to essentially craft an algorithm for creative writing. The result is a bit janky, but offers a rudimentary prompt structure at least.

I used the now defunct ‘Cheap Bots Done Quick’ to create the bot, swapping out existing code with my own content buckets. Essentially [character] + [location] + [character action] = [consequence].

I did get a little interaction from other users, prompting a brief spat of collective creative writing within twitter threads – fun!