November 2024, Day 6

[wiseheart]

This is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it).
May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[sallymn]

I wrote the first draft of a poem about a cat. Well, that was the prompt I picked out.... :) Its 24 (short) lines and will need much work, but it's a poem, folks! (Only a few years ago I would never have written poetry, I was s sure i couldn't, but since I had to for my course... I have another go every so often).

And I did the compulsory-for-all-students 'academic integrity' quiz on my new university's website and it worked, so I think I will be fine. Classes actually start in two weeks.

[wiseheart]

That sounds like a lot of work. Go you!

[sallymn]

The quiz wasn't hard, basically the multiple choice questions are common sense (though a couple of sessions ago I had a fellow student - her first session - on zoom who was wailing that she's done it fourteen times and still not gotten the requisite 16 out of 20 right... I have no idea how she managed that.

[curiouswombat]

Well done for both achievements!

[sallymn]

I was extra happy about the quiz since it does show I have the hang of the website :)

[kerravonsen]

Poetry is intense.

[sallymn]

It is... mine tends to be free verse with short lines and a lot of carefully positioned white space. I suspect that is my brain partly trying to make it look good {eg} but I didn't tell my tutor that.

The haikus I wrote took just as long as, well, longer poems...

[kerravonsen]

Yes. Haiku is challenging precisely because you have so few words to work with.

Try carving your thoughts
Down to bare, sharp-edged wisdom;
The effort is great.

[sallymn]

That is wonderful!

[kerravonsen]

Thank you!