J. Magi

(writing my thoughts here as I figure this hiaku story thing out)

Okay, I've started, and the main problem I'm running into is I'm not sure what the specific rules should be.

5,7,5 is a given, but that can't be the only rule because any piece of writing can be split into 5,7,5 increments, but that doesn't mean it's made of hiaku's:

ex:

into 5,7,5

increments, it doesn't need

to be a Haiku

I know for sure I want each Haiku to focus on one idea, and not have any unfinished sentences inside (like the example above)

The main issue is grammar, in a traditional Haiku, each line should portray and independent idea, but that causes issues with sentence building. For example, if each line were sectioned off as one sentence, then I think the writing itself would become really redundant out of the Haiku context-- which is the point of the project. I want the story to be able to work in both formats perfectly, the novelty being that it can switch back and forth. 

Good and natural sounding paragraph structure needs variation in sentence length to give the writing good flow. I want it to sound nice lol.

I think for sure, I want to make sure that I don't have grammar in the center of a line, because as I said above, then anything can be turned into a haiku. However, I also don't know if I can really pull off each line being and independent clause, once again for the redundancy issue. 

I'm thinking that I can allow lines to consist of dependent clauses, but punction should have to go at the end of each line (excluding commas, in some circumstances). 

We'll see how it goes . . .