{"id":169,"date":"2008-08-01T08:37:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/can-you-write-a-story-without-using-the-letter-e"},"modified":"2016-09-30T22:09:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T05:09:42","slug":"can-you-write-a-story-without-using-the-letter-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/can-you-write-a-story-without-using-the-letter-e","title":{"rendered":"Can You Write a Story Without Using the Letter E?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lipogram is a type of word play whereby an author creates a piece of writing with a missing letter.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the most famous lipograms is Ernest Vincent Wright&#8217;s 50,000 word story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinelessbooks.com\/gadsby\/\">Gadsby<\/a>, which omits the letter E.<\/p>\n<p>For a fun way to engage students in writing and help them with the trait of word choice, challenge them to write their own lipgrams.\u00c2\u00a0 When they&#8217;re done they can exchange the lipograms and try to guess the missing letter.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting exercise in word choice might be to imitate Mary Godolphin&#8217;s one-syllable adaptations.\u00c2\u00a0 Godolphin (Lucy Aikin) wrote one-syllable versions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/dirs\/etext04\/pilos10.txt\">Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/dirs\/etext04\/rbcos10.txt\">Robinson Crusoe<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Students could adapt short stories or they could make up their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lipogram is a type of word play whereby an author creates a piece of writing with a missing letter.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the most famous lipograms is Ernest Vincent Wright&#8217;s 50,000 word story, Gadsby,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[133,127,128,132,129,130,131],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-ernest-vincent-wright","tag-gadsby","tag-lipogram","tag-lucy-aikin","tag-mary-godolphin","tag-pilgrims-progress","tag-robinson-crusoe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-2J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}