{"id":774,"date":"2018-03-07T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyfaughnan.com\/faughnan\/?p=774"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:37:08","slug":"poetry-challenge-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/07\/poetry-challenge-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Challenge #25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Double Dog Dare You to Delete the E<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lipogram consists of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided. In its easiest form, a writer avoids using uncommon letters like X, J, Q, or Z. Or avoids words with \u201cing\u201d or \u201ced\u201d endings. More difficult lipograms avoid common letters like A, T or E\u2014E being the most common letter in the English language.
\nIf you think avoiding using E is tough, consider this: Ernest Vincent Wright wrote an entire 50,000 word novel, GADSBY, without using the letter E.<\/p>\n

Well, dang. If Wright could write a whole novel without “E”, surely you and I can write a poem without “E”, can\u2019t wii?<\/p>\n

Begin with a poem you\u2019ve already written. Revise it by deleting every \u201cE\u201d word and replacing it with another word, if necessary.<\/p>\n

Or, if you\u2019d rather, revise the poem using only \u201cE\u201d words.<\/p>\n

Or, try writing an entirely new poem without the letter \u201cE\u201d.<\/p>\n

(And no fair intentionally mis-spelling words to avoid using \u201cE\u201d, that\u2019s cheating.)<\/p>\n

For Inspiration:<\/p>\n

American logologist A. Ross Eckler, Jr. recreated “Mary Had a Little Lamb” six times, excluding different letters each time. To see the results of his efforts, click over to Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Set the timer for 7 minutes.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Start writing!
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Don\u2019t think about it too much; just do it. <\/strong><\/h3>\n

*Kelly Bennett <\/a>and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 700 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole dang poem. Scroll down and click on the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Double Dog Dare You to Delete the E A lipogram consists of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided. In its easiest form, a writer avoids using uncommon letters like X, J, Q, or Z. Or avoids words with \u201cing\u201d or \u201ced\u201d endings. More difficult lipograms … Continue reading “Poetry Challenge #25”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}