A new contest held over at literary agent Colleen Lindsay’s blog challenges you to write your query in haiku format.
That’s right: the traditional five-seven-five syllable pattern.
I have to admit I love these contests even though my attempts are pretty poor at best. But it’s still fun to take part and strech the mind muscles a bit.
The winner gets a query critique. The deadline is Friday. More details are on her blog.
Anyway, just give it a try, even if your query isn’t really ready yet (mine is just a scattering of things put together, so if by God’s sense of humor I win, I’ll really have to work at editing it). It’s a fun exercise and really interesting to read all the other entries.
Here’s my poor attempt 😛
She of two cultures
Past shadowed in secrecy
True terror unknown
Tales from the Writing Front 
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Hey Dara! : )
A friend told me about this contest last night, and after I posted my Haiku there, I read all the others. I saw “Dara” checked the link — I knew it was you!
And really, your Haiku is *AWESOME*. You have a real ability in your writing, obviously in all forms, to capture the emotions/feelings in that world.
It’s an amazing ability.
Go you!
I posted mine, too, with my breakfast rising in chunks, lol:
Death nabs the wrong girl
loose ends tie in knots, not bows
go home again, ghost.
Em
Tons of good luck to both of you!
They’re both fantastic. 🙂
Hey Dara —
Do you know what happened to this contest?
I thought she was going to post the top on her blog last week?
Oh well. I guess she must be swamped.
Em
“the top 10”, that should read above.
Em : )
Thanks for the luck, Tasha!
Dara — I read on her twitter yesterday (Saturday) that she was finally sorting through the query haiku entries.
She said there was a large amount of writers that had gotten the syllable count wrong, which was disappointing to her because some were really good.
Em