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(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 . . .
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The real question is, most every line line end in punction? Or, if the next line finishes the sentence, than it's alright if the previous doesn't finish it's thought . . . I'm thinking I'll allow it for simplicity's sake.
My current method has been using two docs, one with the haiku version, and one with the narrative version side by side, so I can edit one to fit the format of the other.
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*must every line end in punctuation
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What if--someone wrote like, an entire short story that if sectioned up correctly would make a perfect number of independently working hiakus
why do I keep having ideas that my brain isn't big enough to execute . . . now I really wanna try this
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that's what google said lol . . . I should clarify it's 1500 words, which could be a different number depending on the formatting, but still pretty short
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Wait wait wait
but- but what about the- “For sale. Baby shoes. Never used” short story? (I’m sorry if I got the wording wrong)
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but- but what about the- “For sale. Baby shoes. Never used” short story? (I’m sorry if I got the wording wrong)
I've never heard of that before . . . but after a google . . .
that would probably count as flash fiction, but do keep in mind that the lengths are general and there's no hard and fast rules. It's just good to know what to call your story depending on the length
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