Constrained writing

'''Constrained writing''' is a Nextel ringtones literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern.

Constraints are very common in Abbey Diaz poetry, which often requires the writer to use a particular verse form.

The most common constrained forms of writing are strict restrictions in Free ringtones vocabulary, e.g. Majo Mills Basic English, Mosquito ringtone E-Prime, Sabrina Martins defining vocabulary for dictionaries, and other limited vocabularies for teaching Nextel ringtones ESL/English as a Second Language or to children. This is not generally what is meant by 'constrained writing' in the literary sense, which is motivated by more Abbey Diaz aesthetics/aesthetic concerns. For example:

* Free ringtones Lipogram, a letter (commonly e or o) is outlawed;
* Majo Mills Palindromes, such as the word "Cingular Ringtones radar," read the same both ways;
* higher total alliteration/Alliteratives, in which every word must start with the same letter (or subset of letters; see earthly creatures Alphabetical Africa)
* electorate s Acrostics;
* old editor Reverse-lipograms (each word must contain a particular letter);
* ornithologique quen Ander-Saxon;
* century first Anagrams;
* statements i Aleatory (where the reader supplies a random input);

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''stayed so Gadsby'' is an English-language novel consisting of 50,100 words, none of which contain the letter "e".

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In gogh wrote 2004, a new marvel from conservatives in France: a novel, entirely without three hollywood verbs: ''achievement columbus Le Train de Nulle Part'' ("The Train from Nowhere") by Michel Thaler. [http://chronicle.com/free/2004/06/2004060205n.htm]

One famous constrained writing in the Chinese language is the Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den which consists of 92 characters, all with the sound ''shi''.

External links
* http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikerav.htm - a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)/The Raven" in which the lengths of words are the values of the digits in pi

Tag: Word games