laob_resources = md`GETTING STARTED
... with ${LAOB}, a notebook addressed to those encountering Observable for the first time and giving an indication of how one might begin to make a contribution to an ${LAOB} annual. [RiTa](https://observablehq.com/@dhowe/the-rita-reference)
Daniel C. Howe’s toolkit for generative writing and natural language. [sifther](https://observablehq.com/@shadoof/sifther)
John Cayley’s first notebook in Observable. It was developed to make a new work and also to experiment with the platform. It is now quite extensively annotated and can be read, on an ‘as is’ basis, as an introduction or tutorial even. SCORING THE SPELT AIR
A number of notebooks still being developed by John Cayley in order to provide tools for composing poetic writing in the screen-based ‘open field’ and affordances for animated, timed display of both spatialized and prose work. Notebooks working with actual audio still to come. These are linked ‘as is’ and without warranty. Language art and literary coders should be able to mine these notebooks for ideas and methods:
[Scoring the Spelt Air](https://observablehq.com/@dla/scoring-air)
[Scoring the Typographic Surface](https://observablehq.com/@dla/stts)
[Scoring the Typographic Surface with Video](https://observablehq.com/@dla/stts-video)
[Scoring the Spelt Air – Prose](https://observablehq.com/@dla/stsa-prose) ---`