Cut-Up Technique
Disassemble and rearrange your ideas
The cut-up technique, developed by William S. Burroughs and popularized in collaboration with artist Brion Gysin, is a literary and artistic technique that involves cutting up existing texts or visual materials and rearranging them to create new compositions. It is a form of collage applied to writing.
Example
- Take a piece of text and cut it into sentences or single words
- Rearrange into new combinations of sentences
- Repeat until new ideas or concepts emerge