I read Dennis Yi Tenen's "Literary Theory for Robots". It gives examples of previous tools for generating texts algorithmacally. Amoung these is "Plotto" written by William W. Cook, released in 1928. It provides a number of short sentences that can be combined to create the skeleton for a story. Can chatGPT write meaningfully from a prompt derived from Plotto. I will use the following:
Plotto: 681
A, happy and optimistic, undergoes a critical illness which makes of him a morbid, melancholy, superstitious pessimist
I create my prompt by replacing the "A" with the character name:
write a story outline about "Tom , happy and optimistic, undergoes a critical illness which makes of him a morbid, melancholy, superstitious pessimist" in the style of H.P. Lovecraft.
Title: The Shadows Within