Oulipo
Oulipo was a group of French writers and mathematicians in the 1960’s who worked from restraints, creating Constrained-Writing. Famous examples include George Perec’s novel La Disparition where he didn’t use the letter e.
Here’s a few techniques they used:
- n7
- [[ Public/notes-site/Lipogram ]]
- [[ Snowball ]]
- Prisoners-Constraint
Examples
- Ross-Sutherland’s Imaginary-Advice features many examples of Oulipo constraints
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Constrained Writing
Rules can set you free. Sometimes writing about anything can be very difficult. You have anything to chose from after...
Imaginary Advice
Podcast by [[Ross-Sutherland]], detailing strange, mostly fictional writing. Each episode is a little experiment, sometimes following [[Oulipo]] constraints, sometimes experimenting...
Writing Exercises
Here’s some writing exercises to start getting the juices flowing. A bit more involved than [[Prompts]] , these generally have...