Anyway, this morning the chapter is entitled 'A Sensation of Space' in which she talks about the need to study the FORM of the kind of writing you are interested in doing. Makes sense. I wouldn't let someone drive my car without an understanding of how. I wouldn't attempt to recreate some Julia Child masterpiece without knowing what I need and what steps I'm going to have to dance. The exercise for this is to write short poems - 3 lines about whatever you see around you. In 3 minutes. Easy peasy - this is the kinda stuff the girl loves....
Pink shavings
Removed into a bowlVeiled the image for a time
OK.....diggin it. She then goes on to discuss how what we are taught and know as the haiku form with its familiar 5-7-5 syllabic distribution is not really what the form is meant to be. How that structure misses the mark. And I think well then anything can be a haiku.........
And there is that little bit of breathing room. It all can be a haiku. It is all a haiku if we just look for it. In fact, the River of Small Stones blog challenge was simply about writing haiku in their proper form.
My boyfriend's bathroom has a jam-packed bookcase over the toilet. You are never want for reading material.
ReplyDeleteLOL - Sounds like a keeper to me!
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