kopper

Already the fireworks are on sale in my home town, already the writers (and there are many) on my social media friends lists are posting about their plans - or lack thereof - for NaNoWriMo. I've never attempted NaNoWriMo; I'm not (I believe) a long form kind of gal, and neither do I  believe that everyone has a novel in them. Everyone else, maybe, but not me. 

What I have been doing, the past 4 years, is an exercise devised by fellow Dreamwidth member osmie: picowrimo. Her description (from 2008) below:

I don't have time to write a novel this November, 2500 words every day.

Instead I shall engage upon a similar but smaller project, hereby dubbed PicoWriMo. Each day in November I will post one character, and thus, by the end of the month, compose an entire sentence.

I invite other time-strapped would-be writers to join me in this adventure.

This exercise, created as a bit of a joke, actually resulted in some lovely and well-crafted sentences - although none of them on my part I do believe. What it did do was get the creative juices flowing a bit, and encouraged me to do some writing every day. I have fallen off that particular bandwagon several times, but it still remains a goal.

Now, from another writer's group, a new suggestion for November - Hay(na)Ku, an invention of Filipina poet Eileen Tabios. Here's the format:        

Form.

 

In a traditional Hay(na)ku, there are:

 

• A tercet: 3 lines.
• A total of 6 words: 1 in the first line, 2 in the second line, and 3 in the third line.
• There is no restriction on syllables or stressed or rhymes.

               and here's a link for more info:
:http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haynaku.htm

I'm considering it.