the initial stimulus liptikl was born of need. Tim (a
very amateur songwriter) was always saying to Pete
how difficult he found it to write lyrics for his
songs. Like many songwriters he found creating
melodies or arrangements easier than writing lyrics.
He could have gone out to try to find a lyricist to
work with but he could just never get around to it.
The mainly thesaurus or rhyming style software tools
he had come across just did not work for him either.
He needed more fundamental help tools for generating
lyric ideas

the birth of liptikl No doubt bored by Tims poor
lyric-writing efforts and his incessant wittering on
about how it must be possible to do something in
software Pete one day said Tim you do realise
that we could create a generative tool to help you do
that. That was the defining moment. We talked about
what we would want it to do did some quick searches
and found nothing out there quite like what we were
thinking. Necessity being the mother of invention we
got to work on it. After a furious round of
prototyping and experimentation we felt we were on
to something

how it got its name Having started to build the
product we really needed to name it We knew the
kind of qualities we wanted it to have and came up
with elliptical - it just popped into our heads. We
were tickled by this as it had a bit of word play in
it lip tickle and could be married with some neat
imagery. We liked its quirkiness too and kept
thinking that tickling lips was a way of
stimulating words and utterances and teasing new
prose into existence So there you have it we
decided on the product name liptikl for a lyric
generator that delivers unusual obscure non
-obvious ambiguous and unexpected (and hopefully
good) results.