Applied Poetics is a writing space built on the OuLiPean tradition and nearly a century of computational text. Bring a text; remove a letter, sort the words by length, let the digits of π decide what survives. Inhabit a space where the aleatory meets the constrained.
The wager of constrained writing is that a constraint does not limit a text but casts into a realm of possibilities. The machine is not the author, but a peculiar collaborator.
Constraints are grouped by lineage — from the OuLiPo workshop to algorithms and received forms. Each runs an operation, then leaves the writing to you.
…and many more inside — Univocalism, Homophonic Translation, Pi-thon, The LOST Numbers, Travesty, Concordance.
Start from a blank page, bring a text you already have, or pull one from Wikipedia or Project Gutenberg. The writing space stays the center of the experience.
Highlight any passage and a contextual menu offers available operations; highlight a passage or change everything.
Every operation lands in your Changes log. Keep it, revise it by hand, or apply a new constraint. The text remembers each turn of chance.
It's free; something interesting is always one operation away.
Start writing