Write text without specific letters. A literary constraint exercise. Zero dependencies.
Famous lipogram challenges. Click to set the constraint.
A lipogram is a form of constrained writing where one or more letters are deliberately excluded. The most famous example is Ernest Vincent Wright's 1939 novel "Gadsby", a 50,000-word story written entirely without the letter E. Georges Perec's "La Disparition" (1969) is a 300-page French novel also avoiding E. The difficulty varies dramatically by letter: excluding Q or Z is trivial, while excluding E (the most common English letter at ~13%) is extraordinarily challenging.