A nice little story about making a cup of tea by Joe Davis which uses javascript to expand and re-wite the story word by word.
Telescopic Text is a short story by Joe Davis. ...
Telescopic Text is a short story by Joe Davis. The story expands word by word. ....
I wonder if something similar might be a nice starter or exercise from writing in English?
My first thought was some kind of programming project to write a telescopic text editor.
On second thought though, perhaps it is simpler to use a bit of paper. Start with a sentence at the top of the page, and progressively rewrite adding or replacing words to make the story longer and longer, as exercise in drafting and rewriting.
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