Dear Santa (2020 edition), by @hugovk

[hugovk]

Dear Santa, (2020 edition)

A contemporary epistolary novel generated from the crowd

Here's an updated version of 2016's NaNoGenMo/2016#138, four years on. Updated the code from Python 2 to Python 3 (I variously used 3.9.0 and 3.6.8), and put the timestamps in the main script instead of needing to add them later.

Other than that, it generates the same sort of output. But, well, some things have changed in the last four years. Compare and contrast!

Generated output

• 3rd November 2020, on US presidential election day (51,135 words)
• 4th November 2020, during counting of a US presidential election (51,144 words)
• 6th November 2020, during counting of a US presidential election (51,121 words)
• 7th November 2020, after the US presidential election winner was announced (51,122 words)
• 26th November 2020, Thanksgiving (51,125 words)
• 27th November 2020, Black Friday (51,121 words)

[greg-kennedy]

(psst - the link to Black Friday text is wrong - it says 2020-11-28 but should be 2020-11-27)

[hugovk]

(The last line effect strikes again! Thanks, fixed!)