Last updated: 1/23/02
Link back to course Welcome

"Exquisite Corpse" Online
Creativity, Winter 2002

"Exquisite Corpse" is a group method of generating new raw material for writers, popular with the Surrealists. Each member of the group would write a word on a piece of paper passed around the group. Before being passed to the next person, the paper was folded over so that no one could see what anyone else had written until everyone had written their word. The resulting words were raw material for creative writing, to be used in any way that could be imagined. Here we will do this online. Your name will not be linked to your word. When the list of words is complete, I will post it on the course computer conference, and anyone can post a response.