Haruki Murakami & 30 Days Fiction Writing Challenge

I started to read Haruki Murakami’s short stories. They are absolutely insane.

A) I have read three stories so far, and all of them are based in Tokyo. Most of the streets or neighborhoods are so familiar to me. Either we lived in the same place, or he has same taste as mine for hanging out cool places in Tokyo:)

B) He is so devoted to writing. Since age 33 (he is 72 years old now), he runs almost every day for 5/6 km and writes around 10 pages. I love the commitment.

So honoring his writings and lifestyle, I’m starting a challenge for the next 30 days:

• Run or Walk a minimum of 1 mile per day

• Write a poem in Turkish.

Haruki Murakami writes in Japanese. His English is good enough to translate some of his favorite writers Raymond Carver’s (Raymond is also one of my favorite short story writers) writing to Japanese.

I always wanted to write Poems in Turkish. Let’s see how it works! (Maybe one of you guys translate my Turkish poems into English)

Please ask me on July 1st what happened to my writings. I’m planning to share them publicly, either ebook or pdf, in mid-July.

Let’s start to challenge! If you want to join my challenge, reply to this post.