A while ago, maybe a few years now, I decided to do something really dumb and nerdy. I decided to write one haiku a day for 100 days, and I actually did it. Some were good, some were absolute trash, and some were so mediocre that they were possibly worse than the trash ones.

Still, I enjoyed writing them, and it was a fun exercise in consistency, creativity and social media because I posted them to Facebook everyday.

So if there's anyone out there who knows how to consistently write dumb haikus, it's probably me. That's right, don't expect anything good, but at least it's fun.

First step to any haiku is picking a subject. It can be anything. It doesn't matter. The subject is just a way to guide you in figuring out the perfect witty combo of 5-7-5.

Keep in mind that the whole haiku can be one sentence or a bunch of sentences. You don't have to make each line a sentence.

Now that you've got your topic, try some word association to get ideas of what words might fit where in your dumb, tiny poem.

Last, make it all fit the 5-7-5, and you're done.

Let's review: pick a subject, try to forget your self-loathing, change subjects because you picked self-loathing as a subject, write a dumb poem, go back to laying in bed because you just spent your time writing a haiku instead of something useful.

Happy Writing!