SIX WORD MEMOIR

Think about composing in other forms or structures.  Then look at what you've done and compare it to a traditional composition...  How does the new form allow you to understand the old form?  

For example, the six word memoir.  The ultimate condensed narrative.

          Midlife, the crisis of nothing anymore.

          Wondering, wandering, lost.  Mapping, surveying, seeking.

          Turns out it's all the same.

          Dreaming of birds, the sky spreading.

Or a tweet:  140 characters.  What can be said in 10 characters?

Composing in the blog window, you can only see so many characters.  Like the rudimentary word processors/typewriters--they had a memory window of 3-5 lines--you needed to be hyper aware of what you've jut typed--but the memory of the "whole" was quickly jettisoned...

How does composing in a new form or medium inform you about the nature of composition?