Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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Oulipo writing prompts
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Oulipo writing prompts

Expand your creativity by constraining your choices

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Terry Freedman
May 31, 2022
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Shoreditch, by Terry Freedman

As I have written before, Oulipo is a writing movement that uses constraints in order to enhance creativity and generate new writing. Here are a few writing prompts based on, or in the spirit of, Oulipo techniques. In each case I’ve given an example of my own response to the prompt.

What I’ve found from doing this is that it …

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