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Haiku Diem - A Year of Writing Daily Poetry
At some point during the day of July 8, 2011, writer Freeman Ng will compose a haiku and post it to his Facebook, Twitter, blog and email followers.
OAKLAND, CA, June 28, 2011 /Internet PR News/ -- At some point during the day of July 8, 2011, writer Freeman Ng (www.FreemanNg.net) will compose a haiku and post it to his Facebook, Twitter, blog, and email followers.
"What's so special about that?" you might ask.
The answer is that it will be the 365th consecutive day he's done this.
July 9th will be the one year anniversary of Haiku Diem (www.HaikuDiem.com) a website that started as a simple writing exercise but which has grown into a high tech experiment in self-publishing and online community building.
"I began this on a lark," says Ng. "I wondered how many consecutive days I could keep it up, and thought I might go a month at most. Two things have happened since then. First, the writing has become so ingrained into my daily life that I can't imagine ever stopping. Second, the growth of my readership has made me rethink how I might be able to get published some day, and even to rethink what it means to be published in the first place."
Ng's readership through the Haiku Diem Facebook page, Twitter feed, blog, and mailing list currently numbers over four thousand subscribers and continues to grow, giving him hope for two young adult novels he's written but hasn't yet been able to get published. (www.PleasePublishJoan.com)
"Some day, I might have to self-publish them," explains Ng, "and if that happens, it will be invaluable to have what is essentially a mailing list of thousands of people who love my writing to market them to."
He's also planning on self-publishing a collection of the best haiku from this first year of this poetic endeavor.
The success of Haiku Diem has also blurred the idea of what it means to be published in the first place. Every day, more people read Ng's poetry than might read some novels, or stories published in literary journals.
Ng concludes with the story of a speaker at a writer's conference who claimed that the difference between a writer and an author is that an author is someone who seeks publication.
"I would change that," says Ng. "I would say that an author is a writer who serves a readership."
The haiku rustle,
green, yellow, or crisp brown. Look!
Another one falls.
About Freeman Ng
Freeman Ng is a Google software engineer who aspires to become an author. His poems appear in the print anthologies, "Nightjar: Stories and Poems" and "Coffeehouse: Writings From The Web." In addition to the daily haiku, he is currently at work on a pair of young adult novels based on the Quest for the Holy Grail and the Death of Arthur.
Freeman Ng
www.HaikuDiem.com
www.FreemanNg.net
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