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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.
Writing Games
Writing Exercises
Flash Fiction Generator: Three Sentence Stories
16 Writing Experiments by Jonathan Mahew
82 Writing Experiments by Bernadette Mayer
66 Writing Experiments by Charles Bernstein
Exploring Melancholy: Understanding the Power of Sad Poetry
How to Write a Love Letter to Yourself
Literary Device Guide – Allegory
Literary Device Guide – Alliteration
Literary Device Guide – Allusion
A Midsummer Night's Dream...scape
Creative Writing Inspiration & Writing Prompts Pinboard
Fairy Tale Writing Prompts Inspiration
Ants: Finding Big Inspiration in Little Things
Finding Creative Writing Inspiration in Old Newspapers
Writing Techniques
Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
Stream of Consciousness Writing
Rimbaud's Systematic Derangement of the Senses
Ginsberg's Mind Writing Slogans
The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin
Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
Salvador Dali's Paranoiac-Critical Method
The Collage Technique of Anaïs Nin
History of Experimental Literature
Hakim Bey's Poetic Terrorism and Wild Children
Ezra Pound on Language in Poetry
Film-makers use jump cuts, freeze frames, slow motion.
Cobralingus Engine - Metamorphiction Process
Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging
Isidore Ducasse ( Comte de Lautréamont )
The Creative Act by Marcel Duchamp
Text Manipulation
Text Generators
Name Generators
Haiku Generators
Poetry
Poetry Games
Poetry Generators
Electronic Poetry
Poetry Guide
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Charles Baudelaire
Donna Tartt
A Garter Snake (short fiction)
The Ambush (short fiction)
A Christmas Pageant (short fiction)
Sleepytown: A Southern Gothic Childhood, with Codeine (short-fiction)
My friend, my mentor, my inspiration, Remembering Willie, 2000 (non-fiction)
Team spirit: Memories of Being a Freshman Cheerleader for the Basketball Team (non-fiction)
This much I know (Donna Tartt, Author, 39, Stockholm) (non-fiction)
Donna Tartt on True Grit (non-fiction)
Basketball Season (non-fiction)
True Crime (vignette/poem)
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