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I don't know how I always get roped into these month-long challenges that require you to make a thing once a day all month. At least National Haiku Writing Month happens in the shortest month, and luckily this month isn't in a leap year.
If you don't know obscure lyrics from 1980s alternative bands, the last two lines are from Camper Van Beethoven's "Take the Skinheads Bowling." Not that that makes the haiku better
Have you enjoyed the challenge?
I did Haiku & Senryu for about five months, a few years back. I stopped when a parent died that year, and have not returned.
Learned an appreciation for the form, and out of ~150 I had maybe 15 true keepers. So maybe another 30 that we good but not great.
It's a hard but satisfying challenge, I think. :) I didn't try to use song lyrics. That could have been very amusing.
@KatKimbriel I always think I'm going to enjoy these types of challenges, and I do at the beginning. But towards the end of the month, I start to regret starting.
I enjoy haiku and have been published a few times, but I'm not very good at writing them. I think I'm closer to 1 good one in 100 attempts.
I'll throw a song lyric in if I think it works with what I'm trying to write, but the lyrics I know are ones that people don't usually know.
I can relate to the more obscure lyrics--and a friend knows every folklore lyric out there, plus humor songs. (He did lights for a Chicago theater at one point.)
But yes, sometimes what we really want is a two week challenge, not 30 days?
I also like occasional prompts. I got one and did nothing with it for years--and then suddenly sat down and wrote a 1000 words on it for a book of short short stories.
Bryan Hansel
Kat Kimbriel
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