In 1939 Earnest Vincent Wright wrote a fifty thousand word novel called Gadsby. Nothing remarkable about that you may think, but the entire novel was written without using the letter 'e'.
This is known as a lipogram and is a most difficult way of writing. Try to construct a short story, or a short script this way and you will find out just how tricky it is...Good luck.
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Nothing remarkable about that you may think, but the entire novel was written without using the letter 'e'.
This is known as a lipogram and is a most difficult way of writing. Try to construct a short story, or a short script this way and you will find out just how tricky it is...Good luck.