like writing haikus!

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I'm sure everyone (that's like 6 of you now!) has realized that writing is really important to me. I think that it's crucial for surviving in the professional world, but I also think it's a lot of fun. My favorite thing to write is a haiku.

I think a very important moment for me in my writing of haikus is when I was in school at the University of the Virgin Islands I did a project for one of my creative writing classes and I realized that I could write haikus about anything. I know this sounds silly but in school you learn that haikus are generally nature related so all of my haikus up to that point were about nature. In that class my final project was a collection of unconventional haikus and I've never looked back.My twitter updates, facebook statuses, and most cards I write are all haikus.

So yesterday I was at home doing random housekeeping stuff and throughout the day I think I wrote about 5 haikus about what I was doing and it got me thinking, "Hey, I should actually keep track of all these haikus I write and compile them into a book." So I started writing them down with the title "Haikus for Every Day" in my miniature composition book, I love that thing! I might make it one of those daily calendars or maybe just a 365 page book with a haiku for every day of the year. I feel like I could fill that up pretty easily, I write a lot of haikus.

start writing poems
with a pencil or sharpie
it doesn't matter