Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.
Example use cases: Choose-your-own-adventure historical fiction for history classes, interactive poetry collections for creative writing, educational simulations for psychology courses, digital storytelling for journalism projects
Tracery is a super-simple tool and language to generate text by Kate Compton. It's been used by middle school students, humanities professors, indie game developers, professional bot makers, and lots of regular people, too.
Example use cases: Automated poetry generation, character dialogue creation, procedural world-building, experimental text art
Douglas Luman's Applied Poetics, a computational writing platform which features 50 different tools you can use to transform texts.
Example use cases: Text manipulation, experimental poetry creation, linguistic analysis projects, conceptual art pieces
The N+7 procedure, invented by Jean Lescure of Oulipo, involves replacing each noun in a text with the seventh one following it in a dictionary. (In French, it is also referred to as the 'S+7' procedure.) Here you can enter an English text and 15 alternative texts will be generated, from N+1, which replaces each noun with the next one in the dictionary, to N+15, which takes the 15th noun following.
Example use cases: Surrealist poetry experiments, language play exercises, absurdist theater scripts, conceptual writing pieces
Sonnetizer is a program written by Ross Goodwin that generates 14-line rhyming sonnets from any text corpus.
Example use cases: Surrealist poetry experiments, language play exercises, absurdist theater scripts, conceptual writing pieces
This site will help you make a Mastobot! They're easy to make and free (for you) to run. To use this, create an account for your bot to use on a bot-friendly Mastodon instance.
Example use cases: Social media automation, creative writing bots, public engagement for activism, experimental communication projects
Create your own Bluesky bot! This site will help you make a bot for Bluesky using Tracery, a tool for writing generative grammars created by Kate Compton. It is completely free and relatively easy to use.
Example use cases: Automated content creation, social media art projects, public poetry distribution for creative writing, algorithmic storytelling