[Dinosaws]

Hello AF'ers, I was inspired to open such contest because I enjoy reading a good bit of descriptive writing. Each week I'll set a simple task of a writing short story making it as descriptive as you can.

Here's what will boost you up in the marks for it -

• Using a wide complex of metaphors and similes
  
• A wide range of good decent vocabulary used
  
• Is about the topic given
  
• Lots of details compiled into a short paragraphs
  
• Your writing produces an image and you can easily picture what you're talking about
  

I am interested in seeing what you guys can come up with!

Week #1 -

Produce a short description (200 - 600 words approx) about a place you know a lot about and how it is in the winter.

If you don't know a place well enough you're allowed to use an imaginary place but make sure it's reasonable on the thoughts you're writing about.

Tips -

• Don't make it repetitive.
  
• Keep it to the point but describe it well.
  
• Use the senses (touch, taste, sight, sound, smell) to type about things.
  
• Show emotion whilst describing - Trust me, it highly improves your work.
  
• Maybe incorporate some suspense - don't let all of the description come out in the first sentence
  
• Try not to use any temporal connectives to start off a sentence.
  

Here's an example of this weeks descriptive writing task -

The brisk rain fell upon me, it was the opposite of blissful - damp, cold and wet! It's winter.

Apologies for the shabby and short example! I need some time to think!

Week #1's Winner! -
To be added on the 5th December

This week's winning amount!

500 AP! - Thanks to Anar for adding 400 AP to the pool!

[Xeronations]

This sounds like a great idea. I hope to enter, if I'm not too busy in the next few days.

[cr33pyguy]

NICE! I'mma write my story here, edit the comment when I get home

[Dinosaws]

Awesome! I am looking forward to seeing what you guys can make.

[Xeronations]

My submission is below. It is a total of 341 characters, excluding spaces.

As I walk towards it, I feel the numbness in my toes. The knee deep snow hindering me, but not so that I cannot reach it. And finally, I arrive. As I gaze upon it, my heart skips a beat. Bathed in soft moonlight lies a giant Oak. With gnarled, rough branches it reaches for the stars. Leaves dry and withered, it weeps in silence. The air is still. Oh so still. There are no trees around it. Just one Oak. One, lonely Oak.

Hopefully, I will be able to do a few edits before the end of the contest. Good luck to all other participants!

[Dismas]

Awesome idea for a contest.

[Dinosaws]

My submission is below. It is a total of 341 characters, excluding spaces.

As I walk towards it, I feel the numbness in my toes. The knee deep snow hindering me, but not so that I cannot reach it. And finally, I arrive. As I gaze upon it, my heart skips a beat. Bathed in soft moonlight lies a giant Oak. With gnarled, rough branches it reaches for the stars. Leaves dry and withered, it weeps in silence. The air is still. Oh so still. There are no trees around it. Just one Oak. One, lonely Oak.

Hopefully, I will be able to do a few edits before the end of the contest. Good luck to all other participants!

Thanks for the entry! So far it's only yours which is kind of bad I suppose. This is an ace piece!

@Anar, thank you - I just hope some more people would be interested in it.

[Adorapuff]

I stepped outside, but it wasn't cold. I felt a mild breeze, but like usual no snow. The sun glistened as I continued outside. I looked away, but to no avail. The sun is everywhere in Southern California. The breeze went away as I continued towards the shops. I felt a warmth, one of which bothered me. "I miss seasons," I said to myself. I don't know the last time I have seen percipitation.

[Dinosaws]

I stepped outside, but it wasn't cold. I felt a mild breeze, but like usual no snow. The sun glistened as I continued outside. I looked away, but to no avail. The sun is everywhere in Southern California. The breeze went away as I continued towards the shops. I felt a warmth, one of which bothered me. "I miss seasons," I said to myself. I don't know the last time I have seen percipitation.

Thanks for the entry into the contest, lets hope some more people get interested in this! I mean it's an easy 100 or so AP points to win!

Here's my little example that I am thinking of expanding on.

Tapping on the window the synchronized rain fell, our town in the winter. The constant repetitive sound of the dreary rain as it fell from the expanding sky. As bitter as it was. The rain made it worse, much worse.

Cold, damp, wet.

You can smell the dull essence of the burning logs in the fireplace and the light flickering that peers through the shut blinds of each house along the street. The scent of the wet grass as it lies asleep in the blanket covered sky, as black as the coal burning away whilst the night sets and returns with a morning presence. You lie there sleeping in your self-made fortress of warmth in your quilt just like an Eskimo on a normal day. As the sound of the rain halts, the new day returns with a bright new look and you awaken with a fresh start to the day.

The new day returns with a gleaming sun resulting in the first day of summer, the shimmering of the sun draining the left over lakes of the winters rain.

You could see the shining of the sun in the distance, hear the kids playing in the park and the joyful tweeting of the birds, like a practiced rhythmic routine. The summer brings crowds of people outside, the sound of everyone having fun in the sun is a tranquility, simply calming and perfect for you to meet new people. Neither crowded or too loud - that's the town of us.

Ignore the 'us' part - I really didn't exactly want to include my full town for obvious reasons Also if I can type that in a matter of minutes I am sure a lot of the guys here at AF can do much better than me! Also this was something that I did as an example to this contest and I know I should of used more 'complex' sentences but if requested I'll re-do a different version.

[Dismas]

I have given Dinosaws 400 AP to add to the prize pool. Good luck guys!