Dear Santa

A contemporary epistolary novel generated from the crowd

Things people on Twitter want.

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

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.

More NaNoGenMo: https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2016/issues/20