Language is a Virus

Rimbaud's Systematic Derangement of the Senses

I say you have to be a visionary, make yourself a visionary. A Poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses... Read More

Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose

If possible write "without consciousness" in semi-trance (as Yeats' later "trance writing") allowing subconscious to admit in own uninhibited interesting necessary and so "modern" language... Read More

66 Writing Experiments by Charles Bernstein

5. Tristan Tzara's hat: Everyone in a group writes down a word (alternative: phrase, line) and puts it in a hat. Poem is made according to the order in which it is randomly pulled from hat... Read More

William S. Burroughs Cut-ups

The cutup is a mechanical method of juxtaposition in which Burroughs literally cuts up passages of prose by himself and other writers and then pastes them back together at random... Read More

• Visual Poetry : Explore your creativity by drawing word mosaics with your poetry.
• Electronic Poetry : Similiar to magnetic poetry. Create poems using the words of your favorite authors or create magnets from your own text.
• Text Collage : Electronic text art.
• Poem Collage : Enter your poem and click Generate. Poem Collage will generate your poem as a series of draggable lines. Rearrange the lines to form a new poem.
• Writing Prompts : Click a button to generate a writing prompt.

• Poetry Guide
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• Iambic Pentameter
• Poetic Forms Glossary
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• Creative Writing Inspiration & Writing Prompts Pinboard
• On Writing Poetry
• On Creative Writing
• On Creativity
• On Language
• Free Creative Writing Ebooks
• Creative Writing Links

• Character Name Generator
• Random Name Generator
• Characters Name Dictionary
• Benedict Cumberbatch Funny Name Generator
• Pet Names Dictionary
• Pet Name Generators

Languageisavirus.com exists to cure writer's block and inspire creativity. You can choose from a multitude of writing games, gizmos, generators, writing prompts and exercises, tips, experiments and manifestoes from infamous avante garde writers and how-to articles on fiction writing and poetry. - Lake

• Cut Up Machine : Enter a block of text and mix it up.
• Visual Poetry : Explore your creativity by drawing word mosaics with your poetry.
• Electronic Poetry
• Poetry Gyroscope : Enter replacement words and watch famous poems dynamically evolve.
• Madlib Poem : Fill out the madlib form to have your words randomly replace those in famous poems.
• WTF-O-Vision : Enter a block of text for the WTF-O-Vision to edit and randomly replace words.
• Sentence Builder : Mix and split up sentences and rejoin them in new ways.
• Text Mixer : Mix up your text with this n-gram/markov generator.
• Reverse Poem : The Poem Reversograph Machine will reverse the text you enter.
• Word Medley : Enter a base text, replacement words, and words to keep and generate a new text medley.
• Sentence Tree : Reorder sentences into a series of columns, like the branches of a tree.
• Text Weaver : Weave the words from sentences vertically.
• Poem Collage : Enter your poem and click Generate. Poem Collage will generate your poem as a series of draggable lines. Rearrange the lines to form a new poem.
• Malapropism-o-tron : Enter your text and click GO - The Malapropism-o-tron will edit your writing and replace words with malapropisms, mondegreens, & spoonerisms.

• Exquisite Corpse : Add a line to the exquisite corpse poem!
• Never-ending Story : Add a paragraph to the Never-ending Story
• Polls : Vote in the polls! Or add your own poll!
• Cure Writer's Block : What do you do to cure writer's block?

• Donna Tartt
• May Sarton
• Michelle Tea
• Isidore Ducasse ( Comte de Lautreamont )

• Text Collage : Electronic text art.
• Character Name Generator : Generate a random character name.
• Steam Punk Name Generator : Generate a random Victorian name.
• Poetry Generator : Randomly generates a new poem.
• Random Line Generator : Generate a random line.
• Random Name Generator : Generate a random name.
• Title-o-Matic : Generate a random title for your book, poem, or story...
• Shakespearean Sonnet Generator : Generate a Shakespearean Sonnet
• Phrase Generator : Generate a random phrase.
• Interactive Poetry Generator : Generate a random poetry form: couplet, quatrain, blank sonnet, haiku, tanka, renga.
• Automatic Square Poem Generator : Click a button to generate a new, random square poem.

• Poem Engine : Piece together a poem.
• Diastic Poem Generator : Generate a poem similiar to the Acrostic style.
• Interactive Square Poem Machine : Enter your own words in the form and the Interactive Square Poem Machine will create a new square poem from your words.

• Haiku Madlib : Fill out the madlib form to have your words randomly replace those in famous haiku.
• Interactive Poetry Generator : Generate a random poetry form: couplet, quatrain, blank sonnet, haiku, tanka, renga.
• Haiku-a-Tron : Generate a random haiku.
• Haiku Turbo Generator : Click the Generate Haiku button. Haiku Turbo Generator will randomly insert nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions into the haiku templates of the masters: (Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Kato Shuson, Soseki)
• Interactive Haiku Generator : Input text and generate random haiku using famous haiku as templates.