The samurai technique is about not being afraid of editing your own work just because you spent a lot of time into it. There are going to be times where our writing is good, bad or super good. It’s up to us to distinguish when our writing is good, really good or bad. If it’s not really good then we should cut it out and leave the essential. This is how really god poems develop, with really good and strong fractions. One good example of this is a minisaga. A minisaga is a super short story where a whole plot develops with just a few sentences. In order to have a good minisaga you’ll have to use the Samurai technique, where you cut out anything that’s not necessary or not really good. I wanted to share with you guys a minisaga that a friend of mine did and I really think is really good. Her name is Yoarelis OlavarrÃa and this is her masterpiece:
Dead End
Road trip. Fun and smiles. Then Impatience takes over the wheel. A reckless turn. Suddenly, the wheel is misleading their destiny. A crash. Blood. Bruises. Wounds deeper than skin. A widowed husband. Motherless passengers. Now cars pass by. Impatience, observing its work of art, welcomes Death to the passenger’s seat.
Yes, that takes you to the scene in an intensely direct manner! I love the leap from Wounds to the Impatience...I thought of cars ready to get on their way to work and feeling stress because traffic is held up! Sometimes people lack compassion- and this poem/saga gets to the heart of that separation we might feel toward each other.
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