Shakespeare Prompts

In search of a way to kickstart my writing, I hit upon applying random numbers to choosing sections of poetry. In this way I chose lines from Shakespeare’s sonnets. I did this for three weeks, and have 21 pieces short pieces that may turn into stories or chapters or just be themselves.

Bored of that method, I then decided to take the approximately the same text from each of Shakespeare’s plays. Act II, Scene iii, Line 4, or so. The edition of the complete plays I’m using starts with the tragedies, and (as of 22 March, 2022), I’ve done seven.

Perhaps I’ll do seven tragedies, seven comedies, and seven histories (and the four categorized as romances for good measure), at which point I’ll have 46 pieces to work with.