The Sonnet Contest

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I have been enjoying Sir Patrick Stewart reading a Sonnet a Day

https://twitter.com/SirPatStew

and now the novel I am reading features a character writing sonnets for his illicit lover...

so I of course think "there must be a Story Idea there".

I think a sonnet contest might be a useful frame for a story. I came up with a few variants:

~ is it high school seniors, competing to see whose poem is read at grad? This it turn leads to possibilities of student/teacher; two nerds finding lust; the nerd revealing lust for the popular kid...

~ university English class, competing for grades

~ an adult night school writing contest

~ a poetry night at the local watering hole or book store

~ the high school reunion, an old rivalry leads to a "poem off" between two characters- the one who married the other's true love.

Do you have other suggestions?

 

[AlinaX]

A story about Literotica authors meeting up for an orgy and reciting sonnets between 'courses'?

 

[Carnevil9]

Two English professors are having an affair, and they like to talk dirty to each other in bed. But they follow strict rules of literature in composing their erotic monologues. Sonnet format would be just about right.

 

[SisterJezabel]

I have been enjoying Sir Patrick Stewart reading a Sonnet a Day

https://twitter.com/SirPatStew

I thought you were proposing we had to write a sonnet! I have bad memories of Year 12 Literature Class where we had to compose a sonnet...

 

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I thought you were proposing we had to write a sonnet! I have bad memories of Year 12 Literature Class where we had to compose a sonnet...

I could never get the meter right.


A plot twist might be a story where the students are required to write their own, one student tries to pass of Shakespeare as their work. The teacher exacts a sexual punishment.