ZapFic Monday - The Nightmare Triple Haiku
This post is my response to today's ZapFic Monday prompt in the Freewriters' community. The prompt is "Nightmare".
It does need a little bit of explanation. I think I've become far too good at tweaking words and layouts to hit exactly the 240 character goal in these ZapFics. So I wanted to add something else, some other element to really push myself.
What I settled on was the Haiku format. But there's no way 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 format would stretch to 240 characters, so I set myself the goal of writing a triple haiku, three sequential haikus on the single theme and getting to exactly 240 characters. I think I might be a masochist....
I failed miserably, I could only get it up to 217 characters. But I still liked the end result, so here it is 🙂
Was it a nightmare ?
Or perhaps merely dreaming ?
How you respond counts.
This was a nightmare.
Falling towards the black earth,
Waking with a thud.
Falling fast once more,
Then growing eagles’ great wings.
A dream after all.
For any of my friends (or anyone else, for that matter !) who reads this and fancies giving it a try, it's really fun and thought provoking. The rules are really simple;
- The Freewriters Community has a Zapfic post with a writing prompt every Monday
- Your response must be posted within 3 days in the Freewriters Community.
- Please post a link to your entry in the comments section of the prompt post
- Please use #freewritehouse and #zapfic tags.
- The important one - YOU MUST use a word/character counter (if you search for word counter on the internet or in your phone's app store you will get a big choice!) wordcounter.net and include a screenshot. Entries without a screenshot will NOT be valid.
- Please use the prompt provided as you see fit (use your imagination)
- Try to tell a complete story if you can!
- The story should only be up to 240 characters long (including spaces, punctuation etc).