This is a nice, short, but drawn out, soliloquy… for the most part.
This one requires three character voices, but has a lot of lines I love. 🙂
I’ve put the lines in 3 different typeface weights (bold, regular, italics) for the three characters speaking to help you wanted to switch tones, dialects or whatever idiosyncrasies you want to change in narrating this back on your own.
I often do things my way –
Not some traditional way –
Let’s get that clear right away
Not for the sake of need –
Nor for the sake of show –
Nor originality –
Nor creativity
But because it works well –
And because it works better –
Than conventional ways –
For me
So far, at least.
And why?
And what road sign would you like to describe the rest of your life?
Interesting little exercise I came up with for myself in writing a haiku. Besides the thought required, it could also be interesting for writing exercises, whether English as a first, second, or foreign language.
There is a Facebook Community (sort of like a wiki on Facebook after enough people are part of it) called the 30 Day Song Challenge, with over a million users who “Like” it! The idea is that you share a song of certain meaning to you each day on your Facebook profile. It’s a great idea, this song a day sharing thing. I’ve created a few myself earlier this year without knowing about this concept, with the 28 great love songs in February and Top 10 Bob Dylan songs leading to his 70th birthday in May 2011. Both were intended to be theme focused, though, unlike this meme that is more about variety.
However, despite being about variety, the 30 themes for the Facebook 30 Day Song Challenge were a bit too similar, repetitive, anti-climatic and dated for my liking, and also not universal enough: