by Orna Ross | Mar 4, 2022 | Fiction |
A while ago, I came across an idea that has made an enormous difference to how I plan my novels: It's using haiku poetry to plan my novel, from the theme to the story beats of the outline. As I return to writing fiction for publication, I'm drawing on it again. And...
by Orna Ross | Feb 8, 2022 | Poetry |
It’s long been my daily practice to play with a well-known form of poetry called haiku, as a way of fostering creative presence. Lately I’ve started posting my haiku on Instagram, accompanied by a photograph or video of that moment, as haiku stories. Or in Instagram...
by Orna Ross | Jun 22, 2018 | Poetry |
Reading and writing haiku is a practice, it brings us into creative presence. And that's the intention of this guide about how to write haiku. “Haiku happen all the time,” says Bill Higginson, who wrote The Haiku Handbook, another book about how to write haiku, these...