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This is when an author writes in an atypical pattern. The reasons for this can vary, from [[Leaning
Remember this applies to any challenge imposed on the author by themselves, so normal deadlines and schedules don't count, however improvising with limited resources or using a particularly strict time limit does.
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* Mike Keith has rewritten [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''The Raven'' with the limitation that {{spoiler|words must have the same number of letters as the corresponding digit of pi}}. Read it full here: http://www.cadaeic.net/naraven.htm
* ''Le Train De Nulle Part'' is a French novel with no verbs.
* In her first ''[[Thieves' World]]'' short story, "The Secret of the Blue Star", [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] carefully tried to {{spoiler|avoid referring to the gender of the magician Lythande to conceal the [[Twist Ending]] that [[Samus Is a Girl|Lythande is a woman]].}} She did slip up at one point, however.
{{quote| Lythande drew from the folds of his robe a small pouch containing a quantity of sweet-smelling herbs, rolled them into a blue-grey leaf, and touched his ring to spark the roll alight. He drew on the smoke, which drifted up sweet and greyish.}}
* [[David Langford]]'s "[http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/drabbles.html A Surprisingly Common Omission]" is a drabble written without using the letter E.
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** Similarly, [[Script Frenzy]] is a challenge to write 100 pages of script.
** On the other end of the spectrum, there's flash fiction, short stories under a certain length, and "drabbles", stories exactly 100 words long.
* [[Dr. Seuss]] wrote ''[[The Cat in
** Speaking of [[Dr. Seuss]], reportedly ''[[Green Eggs and Ham]]'' was a challenge to create an interesting children's story using no more than 50 different words.
* [[Isaac Asimov]] wrote [[wikipedia:Insert Knob A In Hole B|Insert Knob A In Hole B]] live on television (although he admitted he saw the challenge coming and prepared for it).
** The preparation time was a few minutes before the show started.
* [[Jim Butcher]] wrote the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' on a bet that he could write a story using what he thought were two terrible ideas: The [[Lost Roman Legion]] and ''[[
* [[Poul Anderson]] wrote the essay "Uncleftish Beholding" in which he described basic atomic theory and the periodic table in a manner as if English had never adopted any French, Latin, or Greek vocabulary but instead only used its Germanic roots:
{{quote| Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one—as, for a showdeal, ymirstuff-235—it bursts it into lesser kernels and free neitherbits; the latter can then split more ymirstuff-235. When this happens, weight shifts into work. It is not much of the whole, but nevertheless it is awesome.}}
* ''[[wikipedia:Alphabetical Africa|Alphabetical Africa]]'' is a novel in 52 chapters, beginning with only words that start with 'a', and then 'a' and 'b', up to chapter 26, where all the alphabet can be used. From chapter 27 to 52, the letters words can start with recede back to 'a'.
* ''[[
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