Oops, I started a ridiculous challenge.
This is why it’s ridiculous, fyi:
Listen… my entire personal life is fucked… but I have written over 2000 words without using the letter ‘i’ even once… does that count for anything…
This is… I mean. Incredible. But terrifying.
You’ve written over 2000 words with no ‘it’. No ‘ing’. Oh God, no ‘ing’.
You’re a force to be reckoned with.
No ‘it’, no ‘is’, no ‘-ing’, no ‘in’, no ‘I’. I’m on 2,700 words now, and I’m… not sure how I’ve managed to do this. Dialogue is proving the biggest challenge, unsurprisingly. Why did I do this to myself?
So this is going to be like 15-20k when it’s done… um
If I finish this, I will probably count it amongst my greatest achievements.
Op you’re the most powerful person on writeblr right now
That’s good to hear because I’ve lost all semblance of control with respect to every other facet of my life, but
I’m maybe a third of the way through now?? So that’s good???? And now I’m going to have a very relaxing bath??????
I probably have about another 14,000 words to go and honestly, when I hit 10k (the expected halfway point), I’m going to treat myself to writing 100 words of something else that has the dang letter ‘i’ in it
Nearly wept when I realised I couldn’t use the word ‘frantic’ earlier, but
7.5k is my next milestone, and it actually might happen tomorrow, which is unnerving. How should I celebrate??
Getting really bad impostor syndrome today and feeling 95% sure that I will never amount to a thing and will probably never finish this story, and so in response to that dumb brain thought I did this
Suck it, subconscious.
You are a force of nature and I am both impressed and terrified.
Please publish this somewhere when you a e done so we can read it holy shit
I absolutely will!! In other news I hit 10k today and that’s without a thesaurus and oh golly, my poor think-box
This author is a sleeping God among mortals
The Earth fears their awakening into their full powers
Full powers yet to be confirmed, but after a short hiatus, I have returned
When I get to 12k, I might do a very elaborate jig
I’m way too tired to do an elaborate jig, but
maybe just a very simple jig instead
Also, just to clear up a few points that keep getting mentioned: the story is a retelling of the myth of Eurydice, in which she escapes from Orpheus of her own volition and finds power in the Underworld, and is sort of about PTSD recovery; the name is not going to be ‘Team’, but it will be a play on the missing ‘i’; I have heard of Gadsby and A Void, aka the novels without the letter ‘e’; it’s not finished yet and I have no idea how long it will be when it’s done - I was aiming for 20k but the story is running away from me a bit; it will be published when it’s done, but I’m not sure how; my progress on writing this is tagged as ‘iwnh’ for anyone who wants to follow along; I’ve posted a few excerpts; and I am not a guy!!
Also genuine thanks for everyone who’s shown an interest in this because my eyeballs hurt and people being nice about it makes it worthwhile!!
