Editing Oulipo (section)

== Constraints ==<!-- This section is linked from [[Constraint]] -->

Some Oulipian constraints:<ref name="CB">{{cite web |url=http://www.criminalbrief.com/?p=7124|title=L'Oulipo|last=Lundin|first=Leigh|author2=Grassiot-Gandet|date=2009-06-07|publisher=Criminal Brief|access-date=2009-06-10}}</ref>

; S+7{{nobold|, sometimes called}} N+7 : Replace every noun in a text with the seventh noun after it in a dictionary. For example, "[[Moby-Dick|Call me Ishmael. Some years ago...]]" becomes "Call me Ishmael. Some yes-men ago...". Results will vary depending upon the dictionary used. This technique can also be performed on other lexical classes, such as verbs.

; [[Chaterism|Snowball]]{{nobold|, or a}} Rhopalism : A poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer.

; Stile: A method wherein each “new” sentence in a paragraph stems from the last word or phrase in the previous sentence (e.g. “I descend the long ladder brings me to the ground floor is spacious…”). In this technique the sentences in a narrative continually overlap, often turning the grammatical object in a previous sentence into the grammatical subject of the next. The author may also pivot on an adverb, prepositional phrase, or other transitory moment.

; [[Lipogram]] : Writing that excludes one or more letters. The previous sentence is a lipogram in B, F, J, K, Q, V, Y, and Z (it does not contain any of those letters).

; Prisoner's constraint{{nobold|, also called}} Macao constraint : A type of lipogram that omits letters with [[Ascender (typography)|ascenders]] and [[descender]]s (b, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, p, q, t, and y).

; [[Palindromes]]: Sonnets and other poems constructed using palindromic techniques.

; [[Univocalism]]: A poem using only one vowel letter. In English and some other languages the same vowel letter can represent different sounds, which means that, for example, "born" and "cot" could both be used in a univocalism. (Words with the same American English vowel sound but represented by different 'vowel' letters could not be used – e.g. "blue" and "stew".)

; [[Pilish]]: A method of writing wherein one matches the length of words (or number of words in a sentence) to the digits of pi. 

; Mathews' Algorithm: Elements in a text are moved around by a set of predetermined rules<ref>[http://markwolff.name/wp/research/mathewss-algorithm/ rules for the algorithm]</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7DVE6oOsqGAC&q=Algorithm+Mathews&pg=PA27|title=The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism|last1=Clute|first1=Shannon Scott|last2=Edwards|first2=Richard L.|date=2011|publisher=UPNE|isbn=978-1611680478|language=en}}</ref>