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Cartes Noires: A Creative Writing Exercise For Mystery and Detective Fiction

Cartes Noires is a creative writing exercise to help you craft the plot for a mystery novel in about 30 minutes using only a standard deck of playing cards and your imagination. With it, it is possible to make an elaborate, whodunnit story on the fly.

Beau Presents & Big Ol' Crusty Books O' Magick

In college I experimented with a constrained writing system called the beau present. This is an experimental poem often prepared as a wedding gift. The names of the betrothed serve both as the title of the poem, and as a challenge to the writer.

Writing With The Prisoner's Constraint

I’ve been digging through some old poetry of mine and found a couple of pieces of constrained writing, including this poem below written using something called the prisoner’s constraint. Topically, it’s based on a true story in the same way LeCroix is based on fruit: it’s an earnest attempt at truth that doesn’t come anywhere close to passable or plausible, but does end up becoming enjoyable in its own right.

GOTO START: An Introduction

Where am I?

First, welcome to this place, regardless of how you found it. Depending on where you are reading these words they might be packaged as a blogroll, a toot, or some other feed-based mechanism designed to list the right words in the right order. If you can make any sense of what you’re reading, then I suppose you’ve found my blog. This place (of indefinite form, origin, or locale) is where I will be posting snippets of writing (both fiction and non), poetry, essays on art and culture, and any number of other mid-length pieces for people to read.