Dear Santa, by @hugovk

[hugovk]

Dear Santa,

A contemporary epistolary novel generated from the crowd

Things people on Twitter want.

A joint entry for NaNoGenMo ("write code that writes a novel") and PROCJAM ("make things that make things").

Generated output

• 6th November 2016 (51,181 words)
• 9th November 2016, during a US presidential election victory speech (19,358 words)
• 9th November 2016, on US presidential election results day (51,177 words)
• 24th November 2016, Thanksgiving (51,166 words)
• 25th November 2016, Black Friday (51,150 words)

What it does

1. From Twitter, find tweets containing "I want".
2. Ignore those with @ or # or RT.
3. Ignore those "all i want", "alls i want", "everything i want", "that i want" or "what i want".
4. Chop from the "I want" onwards.
5. Repeat until over 50,000 words.

Preview

08 November 2016, 23:55 PST
09 November 2016, 02:55 EST
09 November 2016, 07:55 GMT
09 November 2016, 07:55 UTC
09 November 2016, 09:55 EET
09 November 2016, 13:25 IST
09 November 2016, 15:55 CST
09 November 2016, 16:55 JST
09 November 2016, 18:55 AEDT

Dear Santa,

This year I have been good.

i want to go to college, it's terrifying.
i want to die
I want to cry
I want to pray.
I want nothing more than to disappear. I don't want any part in this
I want to know what is wrong with my country.
I want Melania.Trump and Melania will be OK with that since they know I won't be tapping that. I mean her.
i want my one
I want to be involved in social media any more.
i want to wake up, but this isn't a dream. i can't wake up. i'm stuck here.
I want Barbra"
I want y'all to really think of how much this shit wasn't a joke man.
i want to leave
I want you to look. I want you to listen.if you may.
i want to throw up
I want from a Trump presidency is Trump coming down and executing me in person like a real man instead of pussyfooting it
I want to cry right now 😢
I want somebody to try me
i want to delete my makeup account
I want to live in. This is not a WORLD I want to live in.
I want in!!
I want to thank everyone who supported Trump/Pence and thanking Hillary for bowing out
i want nothing to do with anyone who basically promotes sexism, racism and everything else he does.
I want to be in denial for the rest of this term.