I've Died and Gone to Devon is a computer-gnerated narrative which tells (and retells) the story of an arrival in Devon. Most of the sentences in this story were adapted from Tweets posted to @jr_carpenter August - September, 2009.

I've Died and Gone to Devon was first generated by a Python script adapted (with permission) from a 1k story generator written by Nick Montfort. To view the Python version, Download the file Devon.py to your desktop and unzip. On a Mac or Linux system, you can run the story generator by opening a Terminal Window, typing "cd Desktop", and typing "python filename.py". Hint: look for Terminal in your Utilities folder. On Windows, you will probably need to install Python first: version 2.6.5. Once Python is installed you can double click on the file and it will automatically launch and run in the terminal window. Every time you press ENTER a new version of the story will appear.

In December 2010, I've Died and Gone to Devon and three other generators adapted from scripts by Nick Montfort appeared in a print collection of code narratives called GENERATION[S] published by Vienna-based TRAUMAWIEN.

J. R. Carpenter, South Devon, 2012.

[I've Died and Gone to Devon] [Python version]