{"id":1925,"date":"2014-01-02T22:05:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T03:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?page_id=1925"},"modified":"2016-09-23T22:26:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T02:26:18","slug":"stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Prompt Generator: Stichomancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n var xmlHttp;\n   function getXHttp()   {\n    try     {\n      xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();\n      }\n    catch (e)     {\n      try       {\n        xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject(\"Msxml2.XMLHTTP\");\n        }\n      catch (e)       {\n        try         {\n          xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject(\"Microsoft.XMLHTTP\");\n          }\n        catch (e)         {\n          alert(\"Your browser does not support AJAX!\");\n          return false;\n          }\n        }\n      }\n    }  \nfunction promptMe(sticho_level) {\n    document.getElementById('promptBox').innerHTML = \"\";\n    getXHttp();\n    xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function()     {\n      if(xmlHttp.readyState==4)        {\n document.getElementById('promptBox').innerHTML = xmlHttp.responseText;\n       }\n      }\n    xmlHttp.open(\"GET\",\"\/skelleyverse\/cgi-bin\/sticho.pl?level=\"+sticho_level+\"&#038;t=\" + Math.random(),true);    xmlHttp.send(); }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.prompt_element { background-color:#eee; margin:2px; padding:10px;}\n.prompt_label { display:inline-block; width:80px; text-align:right; margin-right:15px;}\n<\/style>\n<p>Enjoy reading stichomancy prompts? Ready to give it a try? No time to flip through books and menus and your neighbor&#8217;s trash to find phrases at random? We have the solution! Just choose your level of challenge, and this whiz-bang contraption will spew forth the number of phrases indicated, which you will then incorporate &#8212; verbatim! &#8212; into your own masterpiece of microfiction.<\/p>\n<p>The rules we use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>preexisting punctuation &amp; capitalization must be maintained<\/li>\n<li>you may add capitalization &amp; punctuation if you so desire<\/li>\n<li>no adding words into source phrases, or dropping words from them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More\u00a0<a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Share your results in the comments! We&#8217;d love to see what you come up with.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: some subject matter may be unsuitable for children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><input style=\"background-color: #cce;\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"javascript:promptMe('beginner');\" value=\"An Easy One, Please (3)\" \/><\/td>\n<td><input style=\"background-color: #cce;\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"javascript:promptMe('medium');\" value=\"How About Something in a Medium? (5)\" \/><\/td>\n<td><input style=\"background-color: #cce;\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"javascript:promptMe('advanced');\" value=\"Do Your Worst! (7)\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/form>\n<div id=\"promptBox\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy reading stichomancy prompts? Ready to give it a try? No time to flip through books and menus and your neighbor&#8217;s trash to find phrases at random? We have the solution! Just choose your level of challenge, and this whiz-bang contraption will spew forth the number of phrases indicated, which you will then incorporate &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1925","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1925\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}