Creative Writing Extras

Creative Writing Exercises & Writing Prompts

• 66 Writing Experiments by Charles Bernstein
• Cut-up Spellcheck
• 82 Writing Experiments by Bernadette Mayer
• 16 Writing Experiments by Jonathan Mahew
• Creative Writing Auctions
• Poetry Articles
• Writing Articles
• Creativity Articles
• Language Articles

Brainstorm Creative Writing Techniques



• William S. Burroughs Cut-ups
• Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
• Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
• The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin
• Ginsberg's Mind Writing Slogans
• Rimbaud's Systematic Derangement of the Senses
• The Collage Technique of Anaïs Nin
• Salvador Dali's Paranoiac-Critical Method
• OULIPO
• Chance Operations
• The Creative Act by Marcel Duchamp
• Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging
• How to make a modern novel
• Cobralingus Engine - Metamorphiction Process
• Origins of a Dub Fiction
• Film-makers use jump cuts, freeze frames, slow motion.
• Automatic Writing
• Surrealism
• Dadaism
• Magnetic Poetry
• Isidore Ducasse ( Comte de Lautréamont )
• Ezra Pound on Language in Poetry
• Hakim Bey's Poetic Terrorism and Wild Children

Visual Inspiration for your Writing

• Found Objects
• Junk Art
• Urban Decay
• Creative Photography
• Nature's Beauty
• Snapshot Perfect

Character Names, Writing Software, more...

• Character Name Database
• Recommended Reading
• Creative Writing Links & Downloads
• Creative Writer's Resources