Wow, what a great haiku weekend. Yesterday, I attended my first ever meet-up of the Austin Haiku Society, and it was wonderful. I got to meet other haiku writers (including some very experienced writers!), and we workshopped poems together.

And then today I had a free afternoon, so I worked on the Zoom-based version of the Know-Your-Haiku game, and I think it went really well. I've added a new section to the Google Document:
Know-Your-Haiku: "Bingo" Version for Zoom

I based it on a bingo-based keynote address I did with a really big audience a few years ago. This is something simpler for a small audience, so it was even easier to develop. The idea is that people make their own bingo cards (for the keynote I had to pre-make the cards), putting numbers at random in the boxes – numbers that correspond to haiku features that will be in a features slidedeck. Then, after learning about the features from that slidedeck, the actual game begins as we read haiku poems from a different slidedeck (that way I can randomize that slidedeck during the presentation just to make it all even more random!), with people marking off features they see in the poems on their bingo sheets.

One of the things we did for MYFest this year was make a little group of people who are willing to test out Zoom experiments before the actual workshop takes place in order to iron out any kinks, and I'm sure there will be things I have not anticipated with this, so I'm grateful that I'll have a chance to test it out before the workshop in July... July 9! Soon!

Next steps: I've got the 24 features picked out (that was actually really fun and thought-provoking, selecting the 24 features that would work best), so next I need to make a slidedeck of those features, and then I need to pick out poems from Living Haiku Anthology to use, relying on the authors who put the CC-license on their work. (SO MUCH GRATITUDE to those authors!)

If all goes well I can get those slidedecks both done this week and we can maybe play this version of the game in my writers group on Saturday.

I am..... excited! And very glad that Sam provoked me into taking a game-based approach to this workshop; so much good MYFest energy with one workshop leading right into another workshop. Synergy!