RE: A Woman of Profound Faith - Haiku - For my Great-Grandmother, written on her birthday

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A Woman of Profound Faith - Haiku - For my Great-Grandmother, written on her birthday

in thealliance •  5 years ago 

I've thought of separating by subject matter as well, but a side of me is strongly leaning toward just keeping it simple, taking the first hundred days of haiku posts I wrote, presenting them in order, and allowing the patterns to emerge more naturally and organically.

I've always gravitated toward certain themes, so I don't think that it would be so radically "out there" as to defy at least a decent index, but I also think that it might be more interesting, to follow the chronology of what occurred to me when, in light of what was going on at the time.

And I agree, memoir as a genre is currently overused, especially by first-time authors whom no one knows from Adam, which would obviously at this point include me.

Which is why I'm more inclined to start with the haiku, and the essays they inspired, as writing haiku for (initially) thirty days straight did indeed inspire me, and I found that it also honed my thinking and helped me to focus, even when I wound up writing something entirely unrelated to the haiku that I started off with.

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I'm with you: follow the chronology.
The editor in me has a knee-jerk reaction to sort by theme, but "organic" and "as it happens" vs #structured if fine by me.

Thanks. Marek thinks I'm nuts.

He's right of course, but in this instance, I think I'm on the right track.
;-)

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Nuts? Or.... thinking outside the box!
Trendsetters don't have to follow the rules. They're blazing new trails and going where no man, woman, or child has ventured before.
Others would be crazy not to join you on the trail. )

Yeah yeah, just more evidence of my alien heritage. I still haven't gotten used to this solar system. ;-)

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LOL! The Rh-Negative blood. Dragons, aliens, advanced races in our gene pool!
(Must be some redeeming virtue to my O positive....)

LOL, I actually told a nurse once that I was O pos, because that is what I had been told, only to have her correct me quite haughtily.

Some people just have no sense of humor. ;-)

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