Personal Challenges

I'm not allowed to use one letter. It is currently banned. This restriction started yesterday, and it's somewhat obnoxious. However, I plan to keep it up. It's interesting to me. 

By only using 25 letters, I must try new avenues to express my thoughts. New words and phrases and sentence structure. New melodies and rhythms are now necessary to avoid the letter that must not be spoken. It isn't easy, but somehow, it is rewarding (it is also rewording).

Personal challenges such as these may not allow you to write a great novel, but they do give you some mental exercise. They keep you thinking, which keeps you sharp. They expand your ability to communicate. You may discover that you know way more ways to say what you were thinking simply by not allowing the easiest path to be taken. 

Set up your own personal challenges and see what you can discover. It may also serve as a way to break through some writer's block.