Restrictions Make You More Creative
You may think that Constrained-Writing limits your writing, but by forcing yourself to work within rules or restrictions, you may find it unlocks something new. This is why Poetic-form is so useful, as they constrain your writing to fit certain rules.
Ross-Sutherland on we-the-poets-podcast notes that restrictions sometimes force you to be more personal and revealing in your writing.
Related: Why-use-poetry-form
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[[Why-use-poetry-form]]
[[Ways-of-Approaching-Form]]
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See restrictions as games
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This is what you get - Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke exhibition
[[source-notes]] on the exhibition by [[Stanley-Donwood]] and [[thom-yorke]] of [[Radiohead]] at the Ashmolean in Oxford in 2025