A Writer's Notebook, Day Nine-Hundred-And-Fifty-Three

I am still not quite set up with the ability to run the code I am working on, but I have discovered a number of new resources that seem quite relevant and which I am excited to explore.  My brother is actually setting up a new machine for me right now (I decided to get a Raspberry Pi that I could use for this project).  I am very appreciative of his help with this, as I was struggling to get anywhere with it.  

Beyond my typical writing, I also spent a bunch of time working on a piece connected to this project, which is largely an exploration of my thinking on this entire endeavor, in terms the reasons I find it a worthwhile project, and the intention I have behind it, as an artist.  It is quite dense right now, and I am not certain how to structure it, really, but that is why I am drafting it.  Once I know what it is I intend the piece to say, I can go back and get it organized.  

Along with the writing work, I spent a long while researching various tools that are available, and found quite a lot, as I mentioned.  In addition, I spent several hours working through the first part of a tutorial for one library, getting a general idea of what it can do and how to operate within it.  I suspect that I will wind up just cutting and pasting most of my code, at least at first, but I am glad to be able to follow some of it.  I do understand the larger scale aspects, in a general sense.  I am learning more about the details and filling in my understanding, but I not expecting to write this from scratch at the moment.  I already found a number of tools that seem very applicable to this project, and I think that, even without real training, I will be able to achieve more than just a random text generator, and might even be able to get some musicality into the work as well.  I have, as I said, some ideas about creating meaning, but I think imagery will be more difficult.

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