August 2013 NaHaiWriMo Writing Prompts
Selected by Michele L. Harvey, Wyckoff, New Jersey
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The prompts for August 2013 will fall within a weekly block. The
first week will be weather in all its many moods. And the first prompt is
rain.
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Snow.
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Sunny.
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Windy.
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Dry/drought.
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Stormy (a BIG storm).
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Clouds.
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Fog/mist.
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Ice/hail.
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The last weather prompt of this extended week (because August is 31
days) is smoke/smog.
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Now we start with our second week’s theme: the senses. Sight/eyes.
Write a haiku that centers on your sense of vision, our most used sense,
which is also true in haiku.
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Sound/hearing/ears.
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Smell/nose. Write a haiku that centers on your sense of smell or the
nose itself.
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The sense of taste or tongue.
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The sense of touch.
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Intuition
(the sixth sense). You may also use clairvoyance or second
sight.
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Emotions (not a real sense, but a familiar one, which we internally “feel”
and which can motivate us).
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Week three theme is “playing favorites,” and today’s prompt is
favorite animal.
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Favorite plant.
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Favorite mineral.
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Favorite insect.
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Favorite pastime/hobby/sport.
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Favorite food.
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Favorite possession. This will close our week of playing favorites.
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And now we move on to week four and the theme is things that money
can’t buy. Today’s prompt is life.
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Love.
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Liberty.
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Family.
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Time.
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Happiness.
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Peace (the last prompt on the theme of what money can’t buy). Wishing
all my NaHaiWriMo friends peace and happy haiku-ing!
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