Task 18: A second attempt

Hopefully, over the next few days (and certainly by the weekend), moderators and workshoppers alike will have had a chance to comment on all your Task 17 submissions.

Please use Task 18 to redraft and improve upon your attempt at Task 17 - using comments from other workshoppers and, most importantly, the guest moderators, to hone and develop your work and make it even better.

My hope is that, by the end of Task 18:

• ALL of you will have secured your understanding of iambic, trochaic, dactylic and anapestic meter; and
• SOME of you will have begun to build on this understanding to compose increasingly sophisticated metrical verse.

Task 19 - you guessed it - will be sonnet-related. Whether we then move on to some drama/scriptwriting after that depends on how successfully you have mastered rhythm and meter. If your Task 19 sonnets are all spot on, then we can change topic; however, if they still need some work, then Task 20 is likely to be a redrafting task similar to this task.

But I am leaping ahead here.

Task 18 = a thoughtful, reflective and self-evaluative redrafting of your Task 17 exercises. Only if your Task 17 was almost perfect first time around can you choose a different 'theme' for Task 18; otherwise, you are to stick with the same one please. And make sure you take notice of the WHOLE of EVERY comment you have received.

Good luck!

P.S. PLEASE remember to label all your work with two separate labels (separated by a comma): a) your blogger id; and b) the Task number (e.g. Task 17). It makes life so much easier for me, and for everyone else who uses the blog.