Writing games are tricks, exercises, things to try to get your writing brain in the mood. I find them useful when a story's giving me trouble - I can't think of a way out of the corner, or I can't think of a corner to get into, or I'm just not feeling in the right mood to write that story - as well as generating new ideas, and just keeping my writing-mind in shape. And on the plus side, they're usually fun to try, and you can end up with the germs of some great little stories.

'E's not here

Write anything you like, about anything. A letter, the next chapter, your shopping list. You just can't use the letter 'e'.Any word that has an 'e' in it is out of bounds. No exceptions, not even for names. Yes, I know this makes pronouns all-but-impossible.

No deliberately forgetting how to spell words just so you can have them without an 'e'.

This works in a different way to the other games - instead of forgetting about the words, this forces you to focus on nothing but - and by enforcing such strict rules, you're automatically forgiven for writing painful nonsense.

A slightly easier version is to omit the letters S, T or I. The resulting text is probably more useful, or more likely usable in a piece of writing, but it's nowhere near as much fun.

You can also use this to help train yourself out of words or phrases you commonly use. If, for example, you have a tendency to put 'just' all over the place - just as he was about to weep, he saw the sunlight peeking just over the top of the tree he had just trimmed - take the least-common letter that your phrase requires (j, in this case) as your forbidden letter.

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