November Tanka Challenge
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gurdymonkeyI'm posting this now as I will be traveling this weekend.
Tanka challenge November 1 - November 30, 2010. This challenge originally premiered in 2008 in my personal journal. Can you think of anything more antithetical to the concept of writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days than the discipline of coming up with one 31-syllable poetic gem a day?
No limits on subject matter other than any you chose to impose upon yourself. Hopefully, some moment in your day will inspire you to write about it.
If you write more than one tanka a day, fine. However, you may not carry over tanka to other days except for the November 1 grace tanka. You have to write a poem on each day.
(If you are inspired to "answer" someone else's poem, great. Personally, if I do so, I am not going to count it toward my daily assignment. The idea is to come up with something myself each day. What you do is up to you.)
Adherence to the 5-7-5-7-7 line/syllable count is required, otherwise it's not a tanka.
It's poetry, not stereo instructions. It should say something and it should make sense.
No rewrites.
Don't post it in MY personal journal. Post it in YOUR journal - or post it at http://community.livejournal.com/tankachallenge/. (I had someone start sticking his poems in my journal last year and he had the nerve to be all hurt and upset because I kept asking him nicely and politely not to do so and deleting them as they had did not count as responses to things I was writing.)
Tanka challenge November 1 - November 30, 2010. This challenge originally premiered in 2008 in my personal journal. Can you think of anything more antithetical to the concept of writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days than the discipline of coming up with one 31-syllable poetic gem a day?
Here's the concept - because I suspect some of my readers will want to jump on the old ox cart too:
Write one tanka (waka)* a day for the month of November.
*Resources on tanka:
http://www.ahapoetry.com/TANKA.HTM
http://www.americantanka.com/
http://www.wodefordhall.com/heianpoetryj
No limits on subject matter other than any you chose to impose upon yourself. Hopefully, some moment in your day will inspire you to write about it.
If you write more than one tanka a day, fine. However, you may not carry over tanka to other days except for the November 1 grace tanka. You have to write a poem on each day.
(If you are inspired to "answer" someone else's poem, great. Personally, if I do so, I am not going to count it toward my daily assignment. The idea is to come up with something myself each day. What you do is up to you.)
Adherence to the 5-7-5-7-7 line/syllable count is required, otherwise it's not a tanka.
It's poetry, not stereo instructions. It should say something and it should make sense.
No rewrites.
Don't post it in MY personal journal. Post it in YOUR journal - or post it at http://community.livejournal.com/tankachallenge/. (I had someone start sticking his poems in my journal last year and he had the nerve to be all hurt and upset because I kept asking him nicely and politely not to do so and deleting them as they had did not count as responses to things I was writing.)
