synoptic novel, 194–6
‘synoptic novel’ (example), 196
syntax
exercises, 178
poetry, 45–6, 175–8
systems, linguistic play, 173–5
taboo subjects, 166–7
talent, writing, ix
‘talk’ poet, 224
‘Taxi’ (poem), 257
technology
sonic writing, 218–19, 220–1
technology in future worlds,
149
text generation, computer, 251–2
Text-Sound movement, 218
‘the ISM’ (poem), 165
The Sydney Front, 230
third person
focalisation, 96
narrator, 87–8, 91
two perspectives, 100
this will be the end of you: play9:
curious to know (animated
text), 247, 250
this will be the end of you: play6:
four variable creation
(animated text), 245, 247,
250
thought processes in dialogue,
116
time
building new world, 148–9
past/present sequence, 90,
103–7
shifts, 149, 193
types of pasts, 104–7
Time’s Arrow or The Nature of
the Offence (novel), 107,
116–17
time–space compression
examples, 268–75
exercise, 271
explained, 267–8
method, 269–70
postmodern fictions, 134–5
‘Tofu Your Life’ (visual poem),
182, 188
288 The Writing Experiment
topography, new worlds, 152–3
Tourism (novel), 60, 258–9
TranceFIGUREd Spirit
(performance work), 223
‘types’, 36–7
typography, poetry, 39–40
u cannot be programmed
(hypermedia), 250
UbuWeb website, sound section,
219
Unconsoled, The (postmodern
fiction), 137, 141
‘Under The Tree’ (poem), 12
underprivileged city, 261
Undivided Attention (poem), 216
unreal city, 262–3
‘Untitled’ (Cinderella rewrite),
80–2
‘Untitled’ (non-literary form),
61, 63
vampire (extract), 208
variation
exercises, 50
technique, 52–5
verbs, strong, 30–1, 31–2
‘Viola’s Quilt’ (postmodern
fiction), 141
Virginia Woolf Poems, The, 66
virtual city, 262
visual poems, 182–3
visualisation, 31
Vocabulary Gatha for Peter Rose,
A (score), 228–30
voice
alternative, 163–4
notion of, exercise, 164–5
subversion of, 162–5
variety, 270
see also human voice
walk poems, 263–6
Wanderground, The (novel), 151
‘Waste Land, The’ (poem), 67–8
web pages, writing skill, 238
websites
apologies online, 60–1
Smith Ongoing, 268‘White Christmas Eve’ (phrase
manipulation), 14–15
White Noise (novel), 36–7
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(play), 118–19
Wide Sargasso Sea (novel), 77, 99
women, gendered city, 261–2
‘wonderful’ (prose poem), 10,
171
word association
examples, 8–9
exercises, 4
improvisation strategies, 225
by meaning, 6–7
multisyllabic word play, 7–8
by sound, 6, 10
techniques, 5–11
variation, 52–3
word play, 173–5
word pools
creating metaphors, 41
creation, 17–18
improvisation, 225
‘Word Wired Web’, 250
words
addition, 13, 30
changing function, 176–7
choice of, 179
constructed, 151, 180–1, 219
grammatical function, 176–7
new media animation, 244–5
new-world concepts, 153
playing with, 4–5
substitution, 12–13, 14–15, 30
subtraction, 13
Wordstuffs: The City and The
Body (hypertext), 240–2, 250,
266–7
‘World, A Girl, A Memory: act
one, A’ (short prose), 54–5
worlds, new
creating, 147–53
techniques, 153
triggers, 153
writerly texts, 108
writers, frequent questions,
viii–xii
‘writing through’ process, 66