Tools and techniques for creative writers
Featuring The Cut'n'Mix Postmodern Word Processor

The Cut'n'Mix ROBOPOEM function: Can a robot write poetry?
Many regard

as the greatest
of all English authors.
What tricks did he use
to make his writing so compelling?

For quick navigation and an overview of the contents of the Cut'n'Mix website, refer to the Cut'n'Mix Site Guide
In each reading of a novel, the story is born anew in the mind of the reader: How to be a Post-Modern Writer

Get a fully-functional TRIAL version of Cut'n'Mix:

Download Cut 'n' Mix 6.0
23.4 MB, Windows XP or Windows Vista required. (Windows 7 or 8 operating systems may have compatibility issues). This installer contains a fully-functional 7-day trial. For continued use beyond the trial period, check the licensing page.)


Cut'n'Mix features include:
How Cut'n'Mix came to be: The Cut-up Application Museum.
What is Cut'n'Mix? The "Cut'n'Mix" application facilitates a process of deconstruction, reformulation and juxtapositioning of different textual, auditory or visual elements. Some may identify the concept as something called "mashup". On this site, Cut'n'Mix refers mainly to a software application which has been available online for download since the mid 1990's: It is a unique word processing application which helps creative writers generate new ideas through the use of different methods of text randomization and manipulation. Cut'n'Mix expands the palette of tools available to writers with functions not available in standard word processors. Core features of the application provide the abilities to:
  • Quickly rearrange the positions of words in text using a simulated paper-and-scissors cut-up interface called the "Cut-up Laboratory". (Also commonly referred to as "Fridge Magnet Poetry")
  • Generate pools of random words from Cut'n'Mix's embedded English dictionary database to inspire a more creative use of language (we explore a theory of why it is that in the "hands" of Shakespeare, English words become so plastic and malleable)

New experimental novels: Mark Leyner - The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Monsters Remix.
C.P.Bryan's new writing project critiques the current state of participatory democracy
in the west and proposes a new system for political representation called Democracy Sucks!

What is Cut-up?
Transform yourself into a centipede-loving character from a William S. Burroughs novel! Explore the inner alchemy of the Word!
News For Androids: A bare-bones version of ROBOPOEM has now been squeezed into Android 2.2. You can download and install the app .apk file from here. More info from the Robopoem Homepage.
Check out the Experimental Writing Theory page for further analysis of the use of random strategies and chance operations in creative writing. (There are also some book reviews of classic and current experimental texts.)

Further study: For a listing of more useful tools and resources and where to find them, have a look at the Cut'n'Mix Resource Links page.

New for Spring 2013:
NEW ALBUM RELEASE from the Producer of Cut'n'Mix:

"MINTSAUCE - Expansion Module", An album of Cut'n'Mix-style music.


Address all comments and enquiries about the Cut'n'Mix application or anything on this website to: info@cutnmix.com.
The Cut'n'Mix application and this web site are designed, produced and copyrighted:
by C.P.Bryan 1997-2012. Get to know C.P.Bryan.

C.P.Bryan is also a prolific writer of production music for use in films, videos, presentations and other multimedia applications. To preview tracks from the large library of royalty free music which is often free (and always inexpensive) for use in your own YouTube videos, go to freesoundtrackmusic.com.

New for Feb 2013: C.P.Bryan has parked himself on the pavement and arrayed his CD collection on a blanket in front of him. What strange mix of music does the Cut'n'Mix webmaster listen to? Check it out in the new Cut'n'Mix ALT Shoppe.



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