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A Facilitator’s Purpose.

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Although I enjoy writing fiction here on Ronovan Writes, and that is something I intended to do more of, it has come to mind I am not in a position to do as such.

With the creation of the Friday Fiction with Ronovan Writes Challenge, I am now aware of a conflict.

When one is the facilitator of a writing challenge that involves possible feedback to others, including the link/review each week, it may be in the best interest of all concerned for that person to remain a facilitator. (Yes, I know the actual definition of facilitator but the actual use of the word has changed over the decades.)

If a person comments critically about the facilitator’s work, then the facilitator reads the work of the person that commented and finds reasons for pointing out areas of improvement there may be some tensions arise. I am not saying this has occurred, not at all. However, I am aware things could head in that direction with the wrong people involved in the conversation.

The purposes of the Friday Fiction with Ronovan Writes are to:     

  1. Challenge each individual to be creative.
  2. Bend and twist to include scenarios one might not have thought of in a work they have planned.
  3. Take one out of their comfortable writing box.
  4. Improve writing.

To accomplish the above, one needs feedback. I am going to be the one to offer up that feedback. I wish for the community around this challenge to grow to a point where comfort levels are such thoughts are shared without problems occurring, but for the time being, I will give feedback to those participating, unless the author states at the bottom of their work they wish for all to comment about certain areas or overall impressions.

Be careful of what you ask for. Some will be very blunt and direct. Some may be too easy. Others will not be qualified at all to comment and simply want to be negative to anyone trying to do something.

I see each story as separate from everyone else.

  1. Is the story idea itself good?
  2. Is the story passive?
  3. Has the story been edited or proofed?
  4. Is the story engaging?
  5. Is the story entertaining?
  6. Is the writing tight? (By this, I mean no extra words or phrases that are unnecessary and take one out of the story and rhythm.)
  7. Has the writer taken time to craft the piece or did they throw it together and put out to the world?
  8. Does the writer seriously want to achieve improvement and entertainment?

I even copy and paste each story in my own word document to check on the various things I look for. Don’t worry, I don’t save them. I use the same document each time.

Yes, the challenge is supposed to be fun, but it is also to be a way of improving. Each single one of us can improve. If Ernest Hemingway were here now, he would still be improving.

I will still write, but have created a site that will have a link in the menu up top to share my fiction in. The idea of a site dedicated to my creativity is appealing to me. I do hope some of you will click over once it is up and running.

Ronovan Hester is an author, with his debut historical adventure novel Amber Ronovan Hester profile picture.Wake: Gabriel Falling due out in December of 2015. He shares his life as an amnesiac and Chronic Pain sufferer through his blog RonovanWrites.WordPress.com. His love of poetry, authors and community through his online world has lead to a growing Weekly Haiku Challenge and the creation of a site dedicated to book reviews, interviews and author resources known as LitWorldInterviews.com.

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Using Proofing To Help Your Fiction Diction & More!

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Recently on LitWorldInterviews.Com, my book review, author interview, and writing/publishing advice site consisting of a dozen team members, all with experience and/or passion in the field of writing and publishing, author Jo Robinson, the Self-Publishing Guru of LWI, pointed out a tool so many of us miss out on because we don’t think about it. Moreover, most of us already have it FREE.

The article is titled Understand the Tools of your Trade. In the article, Jo discusses how to use Microsoft Word to check for typos and formatting issues. She also mentions Mac and Scrivener (I have Scrivener and used it for NaNoWriMo.) users need to be certain to look at their tools to ensure they are receiving all the benefits available. You should click the article link above and check it out for images of where to find the Proofing tools in Word as well as all of her tips regarding its use. She is the Self-Publishing Guru for a reason.

I do want to point out one issue with using Proofing tools.

  • You will have the tools say something is an error, but you will know it is NOT a TRUE error.

I know that sounds strange but what the tool does is one of three things:

  1. Use your existing sentence structure to determine certain rights and wrongs
  2. At other times you are writing in an accepted manner that is not accepted in something like a business letter. Writers often write the way people speak, as they should, but you do NOT want your Proofing tools to say that is okay because sometimes you do NOT mean to write that way.
  3. Proofing will use style to determine proper word usage. I may use don’t or it’s, but Word will not like either. I know they are both used properly. However, I do check the use of ‘it’s’ to make certain I am not misspelling the possessive form, which would be its.

In addition to what Jo offers in her article, I want to mention a few more settings I find useful. I have a bad habit. That habit, for now, is using passive sentences. I’m getting over it, but I’ve admitted my problem and sought help for it. Help I’ve had the whole time.

In Word’s Proofing options, a setting checks for Passive Sentences.

Go to:

File-Options-Proofing-Then, in the main body of the text box look for the area titled ‘Writing Style’-Click the drop down box and select ‘Grammar & Style’-Click Settings.

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A new box has now appeared. There are a great number of boxes to check if you wish. For authors, under the ‘Require’ section, the first one you come to, you need to make a decision about the first option, ‘Comma required before last list item’. Do you want the tool to say this is always to be the way, never to be the way, or don’t check for it at all?

For ‘Punctuation required with quotes’, I selected ‘inside’ because of dialogue. If for some reason, you have an exception, when the tool alerts you, then you may ignore it.

For ‘Spaces required between sentences’, I selected ‘1’. When I first started seriously writing on a computer, I typed the way I learned so many years ago, two spaces between sentences. The problem with that is, printing and computers consider fonts and do the proper spacing for you.

The next two sections are ‘Grammar’ and ‘Style’. You make your decisions here as you wish. However, under ‘Style’ you will find the ‘Passive sentences’ option. Agents and Publishers are not fans of passive writing. They want writing that drives the reader forward.

One great thing I like about this, above and beyond the grammar & style features is the Reading Grade Level of the writing option. You may be surprised to discover the most popular fiction out there, even the top authors, are written for grade levels way below one might expect. Read This Surprising Reading level Analysis Will Change the way You Write by Shane Snow ‘The Content Strategist‘. This article made me feel better about what I was accomplishing with my own writing.

Ronovan Hester is an author, with his debut historical adventure novel Amber Wake: Gabriel Falling due out in December of 2015. He shares his life as an amnesiac and Chronic Pain sufferer through his blog RonovanWrites.WordPress.com. His love of poetry, authors and community through his online world has lead to a growing Weekly Haiku Challenge and the creation of a site dedicated to book reviews, interviews and author resources known as LitWorldInterviews.com.

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It’s a NoNo not to NaNo! @NaNoWriMo

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National Novel Writing Month begins today. Have a book you’re working on and want to finish it? Have one you want to do the second draft of? Then now is the time to do it.

If you can write a blog post you can do NaNoWriMo. It’s a rough draft, not a polished book. No research required. Just right.

Go to NaNoWriMo.org to sign up.

Then look me up and add me as your Buddy at

http://nanowrimo.org/participants/ronovan

I WON LAST YEAR! My first time doing it.

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Working title and book cover. A book from an idea by my son and me.

Honor Bound Monsters by Ronovan Hester

Why Not Write a Series?

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Great advice from my friend, Author Jo Robinson, Goddess Guru of Self-Publishing. I have the rough draft for book two of my Romance trilogy, and part of three as well.

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Series is the new black. It seems like everyone is writing them these days. Having a published series of books is a great way to keep readers interest for long enough to have them remember your name, actively seek you out, sign up for your newsletter, or ask to be advised by Amazon when you publish a new book. I’ll be publishing the second and third books in my series at the same time either late December or early January. In retrospect I think that publishing the first book on its own was a mistake, which is why I haven’t tried to sell it so far. The time for readers to buy books in a series is directly after reading one of them, so it’s better to publish three at the same time to begin with. My book one will really only get properly launched with two and three, so…

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Haiku – Odd Couplings by @Roccoco_a_GoGo

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TJ Paris is in first with 3 Haiku and photos included. @Roccoco_a_GoGo

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This butterfly perched upon the seaweed of a tidal pool. The strange contrast of the butterfly, the seaweed and coral shards was strangely satisfying.This butterfly perched upon the seaweed of a tidal pool. The strange contrast of the butterfly, the seaweed and coral shards was oddly satisfying. Exmouth Western Australia

 A strange dalliance

A butterfly pines for love

Grieving on seaweed

…O…

The sun just rising on the horizon, the moon and a single star hovering above the makeshift tent we built on the desert island. The sun just rising on the horizon, the moon and a single star hovering above the makeshift tent we built on the desert island.

Afar, the moon grieves

Caught in hopeless attraction

Endlessly pining

…O…

Tears in the kitchen sink. Tears in the kitchen sink.

Rainy Winter’s Day

I so pine for the sunshine

The clouds show their grief

It’s Monday again! How? Why? 3 offerings for the wonderful Ronovan of Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge.

Ronovan Writes Weekly Photo Challenge: Pines and Grief
Daily Press Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place

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Stagnating by @Roccoco_a_GoGo

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TJ Paris was ‘Stag’nating until he went ‘pun’ny with this one.

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Did these sweet creatures instinctively know that I was about to leave and clustered about me in sympathy. I am sure they must have. Did these sweet creatures instinctively know that I was about to leave and clustered about me in sympathy. I am sure they must have.

Where the deer roam free

Far from the noisy city

I found stag nation

It’s Monday and Ronovan writes has thrown out a difficult coupling  – stag and noise.

I had to resort to a pun. Still, it has given me a chance to use the photo I took of the obliging deer that strolled about while I stayed in Magdalen College Oxford a few years ago. A wonderfully peaceful and beautiful place.

In response to Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge: https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-63-stag-noise/

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Haiku Challenge Link-NOTE!!!!

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The link I had in the Haiku Challenge had the wrong date on it. I am so sorry about this. If you used that link for your ping back it won’t work. Please double check so I can be certain to find you, and readers of the Challenge can as well.

Thank you, Jen-The Secret Keeper. Glad she didn’t keep this a secret.

If you see any Challenge Haiku out there please make sure they are showing in our Challenge post comments. If not, copy their link. Please forgive my mistake.

Here is the correct link.

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-62-start-hot/

Wrong Link for Challenge

Writing while young. (And any other time as well.)

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I have recently begun encouraging young people to write. They should write about their now in order to later be able to write about what it was like then.

“Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.”

We try to recapture the feelings we had when we were a certain age or in a certain place, but we so often rarely achieve that goal. Staring at the sentences we don’t feel them. They describe everything but relay nothing of what they speak of. I believe this is the one thing that keeps writers from submitting their work and becoming published authors.

Great masterpieces have been set aside in spiral bound notebooks to collect yellowed pages and dust. All for the simple fact the writer did not feel what they wrote.

Oddly, they may have conveyed more than they realized. Even if not capturing the moment for themselves fully, to others the paint on the canvas is three dimensional with smells of the ocean and heat on their skin from the setting sun.

The problem is they have no confidence in what they have done.

“Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it’s through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.”

Starting early in a person’s creative life helps build a creative confidence. And I believe there is no such thing as failure in creativity. You have created something, even if not what you set out to create. How many times has what any of us begun ended up exactly as we had planned?

“It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn’t inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.”

Today’s education doesn’t encourage so much creativity as much as it does scores to be nations. “Our nation beat your nation.” It doesn’t matter what it is, each nation is in competition. Even our children have been drawn into it, and not for the better.

But I believe we should rid our children of a great deal of the restraints early on and give them the freedom to create. Show them how to trust who they are and what they are. Give them free rein to explore and express.

“Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about – something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.”

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Today’s quotes are from Michael Morpurgo, English author, poet, playwright, and librettist.

This has been part of Colleen’s, of SilverThreading, Writers’ Quote Wednesday blog share. Click the link to visit her quote for today, and join in.

Much Respect-Much Love

Ronovan

 

Ron_LWIRonovan is an author, and blogger who shares his life as an amnesiac and Chronic Pain sufferer though his blog RonovanWrites.WordPress.com. His love of poetry, authors and community through his online world has lead to a growing Weekly Haiku Challenge and the creation of a site dedicated to book reviews, interviews and author resources known as LitWorldInterviews.WordPress.com.

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Submissions to Rivet Journal. Experimental is a good thing. @RedBridgePress

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Rivet Journal Submissions

Article from RivetJournal.com  

Rivet: The Journal of Writing That Risks publishes new literary work that breaks from the confines of mainstream realism to surprise, delight, and challenge readers.

We seek writing that crosses boundaries of form, content, and style — either subtly or radically. Send us works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that are too fabulist, surrealist, or experimental for traditional publishers. We are glad to consider work that uses genre elements in interesting ways (e.g. an urban noir fairy tale), but we are not looking for work that is primarily aimed at a genre audience (e.g. high fantasy or hard science fiction). To get a feel for the range of writing that interests us, check out the anthology Writing That Risks: New Work from Beyond the Mainstream.

General Guidelines:

  • All submissions must be previously unpublished in print or electronically. Author must be the sole rights holder of the submission.

For the rest of the Guidelines, what they are looking for and the remainder of the article, click here.

 

Come taste the New Wine

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Our friend Faith Unlocked joins in first today with with Come Taste the New Wine.

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Written following this week’s Haiku Challenge on RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge #61 – “Tears and Wine” :

The tears of a King
Flowed to wash us and refresh –
Come taste the New Wine

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The dream of a writer; the reality of an author.

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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”~C. S. Lewis

I believe every person passes through numerous dreams and down many roads on the way to what they will finally become. For some of us we find the roadblocks, the forks in the road, the detours, and at times a dead end. I’ll be using several quotes from famous individuals today, as I am prone to do , however I also enjoy using quotes of my own.

“There is no such thing as being lost. We’re simply taking a more scenic route.”~Ronovan

I have taken many forks in the road in my life on the road to becoming an author. I’ve even sat stalled on the side of that road, but I always find my way back. Those moments of “adventure” add to the experiences my characters are able to struggle through or joy through.

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” ~Ayn Rand

Not having a good memory after the concussion, I’m not certain if I ever wanted to rule the world of writing. These days I like the sense of accomplishment when completing a novel and submitting it. Even those form rejections are okay these days. Rejections means I tried. Lots of rejections means I tried a lot.

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”~Confucius

Having that memory problem and other health problems means it takes me a bit of time to complete things. I’ve had to re-read chapters to know what I was writing to begin with…short  term memory problems can be a bear for a writer. But just as time takes care of many things, makes many things better, and adds flavor, it also adds to what you can put into a project you are working on.

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”~Norman Vincent Peale

When I wrote my romance, as a challenge to myself to write outside my comfort zone shortly after my accident, I didn’t know what I would do with it. I fussed over it for a time. Then recently with the downfall of my laptop I returned to reading that romance after some encouragement.

Not halfway through, I discovered I was an author. I read on the kindle screen a book. Not only a book, but a very good book. I was smiling and feeling along with the characters.

I am now working on that book and will not stop until it is in a state of submission, either through the mail or by headlock.

Time. There is nothing that can be successful without time. Even a race is won after hours and years of practice.

“Write what you know, but show what you feel.”~Ronovan

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Much Respect
Ronovan

Ron_LWIRonovan is an author, and blogger who shares his life as an amnesiac and Chronic Pain sufferer though his blog RonovanWrites.WordPress.com. His love of poetry, authors and community through his online world has lead to a growing Weekly Haiku Challenge and the creation of a site dedicated to book reviews, interviews and author resources known as LitWorldInterviews.WordPress.com.

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#Haiku #Poetry Challenge updates.

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There will be a recap this week, it’s just taking me some time on this tablet to do something worth putting out.

The challenge on Monday will be out at a random time in order for anyone to be the first to enter. And I thought for this week it would be kind of fun.

The hope is I will have a laptop by next week. In addition to the funds raised two bloggers have been in touch with Florence to make up the difference for a very nice laptop. My last one I took care of and lasted 7 years.

I still don’t know why people are doing this but it is appreciated more than any of you can know.

Much Respect

Ronovan

A little over half-baked crumble – an update

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Just 24 hours from now and I’ll know what kind of laptop I can get. Not asking you to donate, just pleased Florence set this up behind my back. 😊

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Sixty percent (60%) of goal reached in this campaign to help Ronovan.  I want to give everyone who contributed and/or assisted a gigantic ‘Thank You’.

One more day before this campaign ends (yep, finishes end of Tuesday, 11 August) so you may still spread the word! 

As the post title suggests, a little over half-baked crumble.  So, any amount helps by clicking on this link.

Not sure what I am talking about…? Keep reading. 🙂

Namaste!

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Ronovan wanted everyone to know that he was surprisedby the campaign but not the generosity so far. Also he wanted it known neither the target amount nor any amount was his idea. Anything given will be more than appreciated.

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How hard does a hard drive crumble? What are friends for?

Hard it would seem… So for many of us and the writing community who have enjoyed Ronovan’s (fromRonovanWrites)…

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Bye, Bye for now @OlgaNM7

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Get the first in Olga’s new series for FREE! I got mine. Pretty much all platforms. I can’t blog except for reblogging without a new computer but I can read a book by one of my most favorite people that I respect so much.

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Hi all:

Today just a short post to let you know that from later this week I’ll be away and going to a place where I don’t expect to have regular access to internet. My Dad passed away earlier this year and my Mom and I are going to the little hamlet where he was born to take his ashes, visit relatives and try to sort a few things out. I’m not sure when I’ll be back, but I hope it will be some time in early September.

I hope I’ll have some time to catch up on some reading, writing, and will come back full of ideas, and definitely reviews. And a few more interviews that are coming my way soon.

I thought I’d leave you a present, if you don’t mind. I’ve been quite busy recently with the publication of my new YA series, Angelic Business. By…

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#Help for RonovanWrites deadline

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Well it has to happen… there must indeed be a deadline to the campaign to help Ronovan.

Ronovan thanks everyone who has supported the campaign for a new laptop so he can return to writing, blogging, and being with his blogging community.  He has asked me to end the fundraising at the end of Tuesday, 11 August, as he wants to get back sooner than later even if the goal amount has not been met.  He will purchase the best he can with the amount raised.

Psst, I don’t think he likes the idea of needing help and wants this to end soon. Now someone find me an emoticon for ‘rolling her eyes’ on WordPress? 🙂

Anyway, there you go people, you have till the end of Tuesday, 11 August to help in whichever way and in whatever amount you can.  Click on this link to contribute and read the full story of why he needs his laptop. It’s not just for blogging.

Don’t know what I am talking about? Read this post and help out.

Thanks everyone!

– FlorenceT

The Winners of the Annual #BloggersBash Awards Are…

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Third isn’t bad, right?

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So here we are, it’s results time. If any of the winners/those who place want to display the award on their sites, drop me an email and I will send you the logo.

But first, I wanted to share with you the speech I made earlier today at the first Annual Bloggers Bash:

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Ronovan’s Hard Drive Crumble

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I’ve sneaked in here…without Ronovan knowing so all of you – his followers, friends, readers – know of this.  Any help through contribution on Indiegogo or sharing would be most appreciated.  – FlorenceT

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How hard does a hard drive crumble? What are friends for?

Hard it would seem… So for many of us and the writing community who have enjoyed Ronovan’s (fromRonovanWrites) posts on WordPress, benefited from his tips, supported from his friendship, it is TIME TO SUPPORT RONOVAN in turn.

Ronovan has fibromyalgia and other associated ailments such as chronic fatigue syndrome which prevent him from being suitably employed. Despite it all, he continues to pursue his writing and blogging, and these ailments did not stop Ronovan from being who he is, caring and supportive of his friends.

Due to his debilitating illness, Ronovan’s primary connection to his world is via his laptop –with the community he has built, grown, nurtured… and we have all benefited from this incredibly resilient and tenacious man. Blogging and writing are therapeutic for Ronovan, so a dead laptop is significant.

Yes, Ronovan’s laptop…

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How to Hashtag Blog Tweets.

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Check out my guest post on Hugh’s blog. Weird images from a weird mind included. But you know me, I hate to have to search and do all that crediting stuff. 🙂

The Haiku Challenge Explained 2: Types of Haiku and How.

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Today I continue to my series on explaining the weekly Haiku challenge that’s been here on Ronovan Writes for just over a year now. The challenge is more than just poetry, it’s community as well. Friends have been made, very good friends.

To make it easy for people to join in and make these great friends I wanted to make writing Haiku easy. I’ve written “How To” articles before but let’s see if it can be even simpler.

There are three styles of Haiku I have mentioned here on Ronovan Writes, all three include the Haiku in English form of three lines. The first line is 5 syllables long, the second is 7, and the third is again 5.

Traditionally one would have the second line of 7 syllables be such as to complete a sentence with the first line, and begin a sentence with the second.

Waves lap at my feet

As my thoughts drift towards you,

Peace comes with your love.

The first sentence formed with the second line of 7 syllables as the end would be, “Waves lat at my feet as my thoughts drift towards you.”

The second line of 7 syllables then continues on to begin the second completed sentence, “As my thoughts drift towards you, peace come with your love.”

Now you know how to write a Haiku. Often times, and in traditional ways the Haiku is about nature and the two sentences would contrast each other or oppose each other. For poetic sake this these rules are often broken. The purpose of the Haiku is to relay a thought, a feeling, an emotion that one might otherwise write in a full letter perhaps.

The Haibun is an a relatively newer form of, or use of, Haiku that many of our members of the Haiku Challenge like to use. And no, you don’t even have to change how you write the Haiku. All you do is write a story of perhaps a memory and then at the end you reduce that down to the very bare, basic emotions, and meaning in the form of a Haiku. These are often my favorites.

The Tanka is an old Haiku form consisting of 5 lines of poetry. The syllable structure is 5 syllables, then 7, 5, and then 7, and 7. The Tanka is something I think I want to participate in more. The subject and manner of a Tanka involves first an object in the first three lines. Think of it as if you are describing the object. Then by using the third line as the link you create the emotional response the object gives you.

Waves lap at my feet

Driving forever onward

With intensity

I long for them to carry me

Finally into your arms.

By doing the basic Haiku, which is what most of our poets do, and by reading the previous article, The Haiku Challenge Explained: Ping Backs, Sharing, Comments. you are now ready to participate. There are more articles to come, but these two are the only ones you really need to get started. Don’t let the title of the previous article concern anyone. There is a link to an article that explains what a ping back is in detail, and they are not even necessary to participate.

Links you may need in writing a Haiku:

Thesaurus.com for synonyms of my challenge prompt words. I enjoy seeing how people use the words for their own purposes.

HowManySyllables.com for making certain you have the right number of syllables for a word. I’ve been wrong a few times, thus whenever I am not 100% positive, I check and if the word I have is too many or too few syllables, I then go to Thesaurus.com to find an alternative.

Much Love, Success, and Respect

Ronovan

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Silence Rings by @YouAreTheExpert

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Annette is in first this Anniversary issues of the Haiku Challenge!

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Feel thought’s silence ring

In the hallows of the mind

Too loud to ignore

©2015 Annette Rochelle Aben

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