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  2. Plot device - Wikipedia

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    Many stories, especially in the fantasy genre, feature an object or objects with some great magical power, such as a crown, sword, or jewel. Often what drives the plot is the hero's need to find the object and use it for good, before the villain can use it for evil, or if the object has been broken by the villains, to retrieve each piece that must be gathered from each antagonist to restore it ...

  3. Storyland (narrative generator) - Wikipedia

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    Description. Storyland is a narrative work which employs the computer's random function to display stereotypical characters in stereotypical relationships. Upon entering the project, and when the "New Story" button is engaged, a brief story is displayed. In version 1 (Javascript) the story develops over nine lines of text displayed all at once.

  4. Story generator - Wikipedia

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    A story generator or plot generator is a tool that generates basic narratives or plot ideas. The generator could be in the form of a computer program, a chart with multiple columns, a book composed of panels that flip independently of one another, or a set of several adjacent reels that spin independently of one another, allowing a user to select elements of a narrative plot.

  5. History of perpetual motion machines - Wikipedia

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    In 1870, E.P. Willis of New Haven, Connecticut made money from a "proprietary" perpetual motion machine. A story of the overcomplicated device with a hidden source of energy appears in the Scientific American article "The Greatest Discovery Ever Yet Made". Investigation into the device eventually found a source of power that drove it.

  6. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Plot (narrative) Plot is the cause‐and‐effect sequence of main events in a story. [1] Story events are numbered chronologically while red plot events are a subset connected logically by "so". In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of ...

  7. The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer - Wikipedia

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    In his introduction, Mailer details his conflicted attitude toward the short story and casts doubt on his own abilities to write a good one. [7] This claim, however, might just be a way for Mailer to mitigate any negative criticism and show modesty by denying his abilities, [5] or as a ruse to get us to discover for ourselves whether Mailer can write a good short story. [8]

  8. Outline (list) - Wikipedia

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    In pl. The main features or general principles of a subject, proposal, etc. 3.b. A brief verbal or written description of something, giving a general idea of the whole but leaving details to be filled in; a draft, a summary. Also: a précis of a proposed article, novel, scenario, etc." ^ a b "1.8.3: Final Outline".

  9. Generative artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    There is free software on the market capable of recognizing text generated by generative artificial intelligence (such as GPTZero), as well as images, audio or video coming from it. [78] Potential mitigation strategies for detecting AI content in general include digital watermarking , content authentication , information retrieval , and machine ...