Creative writing at cpx

I attended my first session at the Creative Performance Exchange this morning. You can find out about the meeting on Twitter via the hashtags #cpx, #cpx1, #cpx2, and #cpx3. It was thoroughly enjoyable and there's a real commitment to keep trying new formats so I'm looking forward to something different next time.

One quick exercise I got involved in was called "creative writing with constraints". It was a seemingly simple challenge - write six lines of anything coherent, but every word has to use the letter 'e'. We all came up with something interesting and worthwhile; here's my offering:

The craziness created tension except - exception makes excellence. Realising those features examining everyman's experience. Struggles. Stuckness. Then freedom. Then stuckness again. Determination leads those examiners true. These experiments are extraordinarily horrendously exasperating. Strive. One endorses these challenges. True creativity lies herein. Three minutes goes like treacle. One more minute expounds the slave driver.

There's a view in the modern western world that we require freedom to be creattive. In this exercise, the constraint enabled our creativity. Interesting.