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  • Writing On Hard Mode, Part 2

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    September 18, 2012

    This article is the second in a series entitled “Writing On Hard Mode” about constrained writing.  To read the first article of the series, click here. In the first article of this series, I introduced the concept of constrained writing–“a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern.”  I touched on a ...

  • Writing On Hard Mode, Part 1

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    September 11, 2012

    I’ve always loved giving myself ridiculous writing restrictions. I have a song called “Prime Obsession” wherein the words occurring in prime sequence in the first verse (i.e. the second, third, fifth, seventh, eleventh, and so on) comprise a stanza independent of the main body. Later in the song, I have one stanza that is an acrostic of the title followed by four lines that are acrostic’s fo...