Comments on: Short Story Writing Project: The Law of Diminishing Randomness http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/ Writing Career Center Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:51:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: J.C. Hewitt http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/comment-page-1/#comment-222596 J.C. Hewitt Sun, 17 May 2009 20:18:19 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/#comment-222596 The story is, no doubt, fascinating, but my bet is that it does NOT get increasingly random. The story is, no doubt, fascinating, but my bet is that it does NOT get increasingly random.

]]> By: robbie http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/comment-page-1/#comment-222595 robbie Sun, 17 May 2009 17:45:13 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/#comment-222595 There is a game that is popular in many internet forum... all members in forum participating in creating a story, each of them contribute a word in turn. after 1000 words the direction of the story can be vary dynamic and unpredictable, yet the resulting story is often fascinating and very funny. I think it is a good example of The Law of 'Increasing' Randomness then is this means that the story is bad because it becomes more and more random? There is a game that is popular in many internet forum…

all members in forum participating in creating a story, each of them contribute a word in turn.

after 1000 words the direction of the story can be vary dynamic and unpredictable, yet the resulting story is often fascinating and very funny.

I think it is a good example of

The Law of ‘Increasing’ Randomness

then is this means that the story is bad because it becomes more and more random?

]]> By: John Hewitt http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/comment-page-1/#comment-209635 John Hewitt Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:55:02 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/#comment-209635 @ Ewan, I didn't have to study this particularly closely. It was drummed into my head by a dozen creative writing teachers. @ Ewan,

I didn’t have to study this particularly closely. It was drummed into my head by a dozen creative writing teachers.

]]> By: Ewan Kennedy http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/comment-page-1/#comment-209457 Ewan Kennedy Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:47:00 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/#comment-209457 @ John What a fascinating thought. I can't help wondering what inspired your examination of randomness in stories. I wonder if anybody has actually recorded the frequency of random events versus word counts and hypothesised any statistical relationship. @ John

What a fascinating thought. I can’t help wondering what inspired your examination of randomness in stories. I wonder if anybody has actually recorded the frequency of random events versus word counts and hypothesised any statistical relationship.

]]> By: John Hewitt http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/comment-page-1/#comment-186389 John Hewitt Sat, 17 May 2008 17:44:06 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/#comment-186389 Thank you for the observation Brittany. We do forget the unimportant random details fairly quickly. Thank you for the observation Brittany. We do forget the unimportant random details fairly quickly.

]]> By: Brittany http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/comment-page-1/#comment-186210 Brittany Fri, 16 May 2008 18:34:05 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/short-story-writing-project-the-law-of-diminishing-randomness/#comment-186210 Awsome!!!!!!! SO true! Life is sort of randon though. But randon event do stay to a minimum in real life and after a while they lose their meaning something that ment the world to you one day will mean nothing tomorrow. Awsome!!!!!!! SO true! Life is sort of randon though. But randon event do stay to a minimum in real life and after a while they lose their meaning something that ment the world to you one day will mean nothing tomorrow.

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