Fancy Some Stichomancy?

Our stichomancy prompt generator got updated last week, and now contains 38,595 unique phrases.

Like everything in the Writing Cave, this is a collaborative effort. Jen collects and curates the raw materials, and Kent maintains the generator’s data files. We also use it to create the prompts that form our epic chain story.

The source material runs quite a gamut, and includes things that Kent said out loud. See if you can guess which ones those are!

The way we use the generator is to provide us with a fun, quick writing challenge: tie all the phrases together. We’ve been doing it so long now it’s evolved a set of “rules” that we hold each other to, but the goal is to have fun so do what feels right.

Something we don’t use it for is divination, although that is in fact the original purpose of stichomancy itself. Any future foretold by our generator would be absurd in the extreme. (And fairly lighthearted, which means it couldn’t have predicted what’s going on right now in the world.)

Have fun, and feel free to share! We’d love to see what you do with it.