Constrained Writing #shorts
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Published 2022-03-08
In ordinary English, the average number of letters per word is 4.2
In the first 10,000 digits of pi, the average is 5.7
So "Not A Wake" has a lot of big words :)
All Comments (21)
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Even the title: Not A Wake
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"Dude I rewrote a book without using the letter e" "Which one" "Th book of gnsis"
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a fun book i read once slowly had letters disappearing as they were ‘banned’ in the story. i can’t remember what it was called but it was an experience, for sure.
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I am not going to lie, I would pay Michael so much to read me his favorite book(s)
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the author of the pi book when he reaches a zero: 👁️👄👁️
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The realization about the Pi book hit me harder than some actual story twists have hit me in the past year.
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while it may not be "practical" for readers, it's definitely one of the best exercises for writers to work on their creativity
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Sharing your Meaningful Book collection has become one of my favorite leitmotifs of your shorts, but this one on pi takes the cake. No but seriously, this sounds like a fun writing practice. Thanks man as always. Buying this book now.
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He didn't say "Michael here" we can't know for sure it's him
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So he has to say "a" or "I" for 1/10 of the words.
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I CAUGHT THAT BEFORE YOU SAID IT I'M SO HAPPY
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"Initial instructions" got me
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“Oh hell nah, tell me you got Genesis” “Nah we got Initial Instructions” “Spider-Man?” “Arachnid-human” “Vsauce?” “Wgarnish”
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what's really interesting is that one of the books he held up at the start "a void" by georges perec was originally in french but was translated into a bunch of different languages, all without using the most common letter in that language
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THAT IS FUCKING BRILLIANT! I LOVE that someone did this. Now this makes me want to see MORE things written out as Pi. What about an entire movie who's script is Pi, or a song/music video?
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The book with each word’s letter lengths corresponding to the digits of pi thrilled me more than it had any right to.
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The coolest thing is that even the FRONT PAGE is in pi.
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"How I want a drink, alcoholic of course after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics" = Pi
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YouTube’s algorithm is actually impressive. Happy pi day everyone
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That's so beautiful. Pi is such a fun concept and the way people use it is so interesting
