[enkiv2]

There's a mostly-dead generative art mailing list and slack (http://generative-art.slack.com), and the official stuff is on github (http://nanogenmo.github.io), but most of the off-season discussion is actually on the botally slack (despite that actually being oriented toward twitter artbots) because of a big overlap between the two communities.

The story generator idea you described above is an example of templating, & it's used pretty often. It's easy to make a good looking chunk of story that way, but difficult to make a 50k word novella that's readable (the target of nanogenmo).