I have just written for 10 minutes, courtesy of Tim Clare's 100 days of writing on Soundcloud. It was day 10, and true to form, I had started the 100 days with great enthusiasm, the suddenly stopped. There's been a gap of many months - no surprises there, but it is only 10 minutes a day and the plan now is to continue daily until the end of the month, and then to choose again for February.
This morning's writing was about Kyoto Tea Garden. I have never been to one and would love to visit one day.
He asked us to pick one location from a list we wrote earlier in his free course and Japan came up in an online writing class with Jen Alexander over the weekend, which I joined to see if it could get my writing mojo back, so Kyoto was keeping on with that theme.
I did have a 365 project for 2021, write a Haiku a day, but that only lasted 4 days and I thought I had let that project go, but I came across a book called 'Haiku - the sacred art' and it was intriguing so I ordered it.
The postman delivered it during the 1st instalment of the writing course so I took that as a sign, and when it was time to pick a goal to work with, I re-activated the Haiku project.
I am learning more about Haiku, the form and how to write one and it may be that what I have been writing is not strictly a Haiku but at the moment that does not matter and I will learn as I go along.
Here is today's piece , inspired by the sound the stream made on its way to the ocean which was roaring in the dark morning.
cold water bubbling
on its way to dark ocean
midnight black roaring
I kept to the traditional form of 5/7/5 syllables.
To keep me going with poetry I enrolled on a 5 week poetry writing course with WEA. It starts tomorrow afternoon.
She will provide exercises to stimulate writing, but also mentioned editing, which I am not a big fan of, but again I am sure there is something to learn there.
I have found a young female poet on youtube ...Jo someone, and she has some videos about different poetry forms, including the Villanelle which I had not heard of before I noticed a one morning course about it on WEA.
It looks very complicated but I might well sign up to see if I can actually write a Villanelle.
Dylan Thomas' 'Rage against the Dying of the Light' is written in this form.
https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night
Well, I have just written on my blog for 15 minutes and intend to be here again before the end of the week.
I will make a note in the diary to return on Thursday.