Task 12: A Polysyllabic Challenge

Right: now you've done Task 11, let's step things up a gear...

100 words again - and the same title ("Debut"), although you may well choose a different topic this time.

However, rather than 100 syllables, I would like 150 syllables. This means you will have to experiment with lots of polysyllabic words too. And, considering it will still be necessary to have a large number of words with one syllable (because sometimes they are necessary - look over this sentence I am writing, for example), that will, as a result, mean that some of your words will need several.

Your tool to achieve this?

A THESAURUS.

What I am asking you to explore here is the wonderful world of the thesaurus. Either use a hard copy or visit www.thesaurus.com. But remember, you CANNOT use a thesaurus in isolation from a dictionary: you use the thesaurus to find the word; but you then CHECK the exact meaning of that word in a dictionary to make sure it completely fits.

Just be careful not to fall into any of the following traps:

1. Some of you got confused last time with what tense you were using. If you chopped and will changed tense too many times, you would got confuse - and confusing your reader too. (Hope you see what I'm doing there... :) )
2. Although it can be fun playing with syntax and experimenting with fragments (i.e. parts of a sentence), do make sure the final piece makes complete sense. This is especially important for your long words - they MUST make complete sense in your sentence.
3. This is PROSE, not POETRY. So there is no need to write in lines or verses or anything...
   
4. Lastly, PLEASE avoid careless errors. When you post to a blog, your writing is being PUBLISHED. It gives the wrong message to your reader if there are ANY careless mistakes or typos - spelling/punctuation/grammar - in your writing at all. So check it all carefully.

Again, like last time, I am looking for ambitious and powerful use of AUDITORY and FIGURATIVE language - as well as a strong sense of TENSION and building towards a CLIMAX.

I am going to start giving you all TWO WEEKS for each task from now on - to ensure you ALL have time to complete every one. So the deadline for this is midnight on Saturday 6th October. Please don't miss it!

Here is my attempt:

Miniature asylum seeker, dwarfish refugee, I have almost outgrown my cacophonous cocoon. Warm and wet and black, it has nourished and protected me, drenched me in the matchless innocence of the blind, muffled the music of the world into motherly murmur, filled my interminable night with blissful nothingness. My slippery sanctuary. How much longer will I be welcome here? How long before I am forced to flee? How long before I make my terrifying debut? I do not know the lines; I will fill the room with my cries. The language of grief. Where one life begins, another must end.