Obviously, Not Woody

1951: Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger published

All of those examples of constrained writing, admittedly are far superior to my own paltry attempts. It surprises me that people can manage to write 50,000 words without the most common letter in the language, or write entire novels using fewer letters each chapter, or write Cadenzas in which each word has as many letters as the same place in the decimal notations of pi (One (3) I (1) seek(4)). It amuses me that there are people who actively try to come up with new experimental ways to write. It’s like finding someone who built a 2 ton erector set: it’s impressive, yet also shockingly irrelevant.

I try to have that as my personal motto: Impressive, yet shockingly irrelevant. All of the projects I undertake (and I undertake far more than I ever have a chance of completing) have some form of irrelevancy to them.

For instance, I still have to write a dozen more ‘nab?fs,’ which is a series of 250-word stories I started back in 2005 (modified from an original idea in 2001). And now, not even close to having finished the original 29 stories, I’m thinking of writing 221 more, so that I can sell them as their own package.

I find a distinctly good book: A Void. Also, an author authored a alliterative article: Alphabetical Africa. One I seek, I share immediate to others: The Caedic Cadenza. All of those examples of constrained writing, admittedly are far superior to my own paltry attempts. It surprises me that people can manage to write 50,000 words…