Lipogram

lipograms that avoid a particular non consonant (not a or i) is highly difficult to do. It can only last for a short amount of words until a struggling author is struck by a long fit of insanity. And nonwithstanding said authors hard labours, his work shall probably pass into oblivion without making any impact on a world blissfully ignorant of authors long and painful hardships. His puny contribution shall only attract criticsim as fruit of a bad author who is failing at artful writing. But an author of lipograms is truly an outstanding artist. A work of art only functions as a display of an artists vast imagination. Now, a lipogram of any type-long or short, is argubly as high a form of grammatical art as anything.

At the start, i didn't think i would start two paragraphs, but this sort of writing only grows on an author. I am loving writing this, and in fact i think all of us should try lipograms occasionaly. Now, i must finish this topic to maintain what small amount of wit i can still call my own.

I thank you humbly for glancing at my pitiful try at a lipogram and i wish you a good day.

Doing this as you program is also fun, as you must find standard library functions that act similarly to your daily functions, but still with analogous output. I did this a long ago, writing a program in C that avoids any inclusion of ';'.

(Also, wow it is hard to avoid 'e', just for this post, though I found that I couldn't bypass that limitation for "semicolon". Doing so for a full book would bring about total insanity.)

I've enjoyed lipograms a lot (in the past practicing not only writing but also speaking without "E"), and also admired these two tautogrammatic translations of the Genesis creation story

https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.ht...

https://calvinballing.github.io/saga/

so much that I recently wrote my own tautogram-in-B version of the same text (just finishing yesterday!). I'm going to publish it somewhere soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautogram

Constrained writing is kind of amazing. The story "Cadaeic Cadenza" is very highly recommended - http://www.cadaeic.net/cadenza.htm

It is a kind of meta story as the constraint is actually discussed in the story.

Having read Perec's A void, there are some interesting “cheats” involved in the work (at least in its English translation), where certain phrases end up standing in for their forbidden equivalent, e.g., “that man” for “he.”

I came across a reference to another writer's work where he wrote 5 medium-length pieces where the only vowels were A, E, I, O and U. He said that he created word lists from a dictionary and then wrote using only those words.

Writing to a constraint in general is a surprisingly liberating process and while some of the Oulipo practices are not necessarily generative on their own, they do force the writer’s mind out of the well-trod tracks that it would otherwise travel along.

On a popular social discussion forum, a group that follows said format's constraints:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AVoid5/