Thread: I just got a sweet idea for a challenge

SO, here it is:

You gotta write something with no adjectives. (WHAT?) Just write a short little scene that conveys a mood but don't use any adjectives. For extra points write a description of something. (This is gonna be sweet!)

Get it?

Now go! (I'll post mine in a bit)

It was well loved. The armchair that mom nursed my baby sister in. The chair that dad took naps in while "watching" movies. The one me and my cousins stacked pillows on to make a fort every thanksgiving. It was well loved. I see it now, a chair of tears and rips. It makes a sadness crawl up my throat and a lump fall into my stomach. I wave goodbye to the sign beside it that reads "Free" from the backseat of the car as mom drives away. It was well loved.

This is a good idea, and I would hate to see this die without a struggle so...

The stone was covered in cracks and inscribed with words about a man who lay benath the stone, flowers sat, dying over the grave. The people who knew him, now long gone and forgotten.

"forgotten" is an adjective but it added an extral little bit to it. Plenty of adverbs here to replace the adjectives, like yours. Please tell me if I've missed something.

I was only nine.

Only nine when I visited my grandmothers house as I did every monday.

Only nine when she didn't answer the door.

Only nine when I let myself in.

Only nine when I found her face down on the bed

Only nine when I frist remember crying

Only nine.

my baby sister struggled to her feet and toddled along the carpet floor. she tripped after a while, and fell, landing on her bottom, on the floor. she sat giggling, stretching her toes into her mouth, and spit dribbling from her lips. then she laughed the little baby laugh that has me smiling so hard. i laughed along with her.
(i am really sorry if it turns out that some of them are adjectives, i tried to use doing words ((forgot their proper term)) instead, but i might not have :S)
Heather

You don't want us to use adjectives? How can that be done? Adjectives are the cornerstone of writing. I can't imagine writing anything without adjectives that I would not hit myself for. I can’t believe anyone would even suggest such a challenge. Even these sentences are full of adjectives. I will count them right now. Wait, where are the adjectives? Did I write something without adjectives? How will I ever live with myself? I have spit upon the tradition of literature. Shakespeare’s writing is full of the things. Why is it beyond my ability to include it in this paragraph? Excuse me while I go hit myself.

He stood and stretched his arms above his head. A yawn crawled from his mouth as he reached for the sky, gazing upwards. Nothing made a sound there. Nothing spoke, nothing cried, nothing lived. Except for him. He lived. He lived, and he fought. He fought for this world where only he lived. This world where nothing spoke. He owned this world, and he planned to keep it.

Jimmy slid down the banister with a skateboard in one hand and his bag in the other. He slid and slid and crashed down into his dog, Rover. The dog bit Jimmy and he got rabies. His father took him to the hospital, but the doctors couldn't save him so they shot him instead. He died.

The End.

I walk down the hall. Its columns stretch out before me and arc up to form a ceiling. The walls crack and turn green with each step I take, each breath taking eons, each eyeblink taking ages. I emerge from my home at the edge of the universe and step into The Black. I am a Titan of the cosmos, wandering through corridors of stars and courtyards of nebulas. I eat oceans of nothing and carry worlds in my pocket to place in empty spaces. I take away stars from their perch. I dance to the beat of flashes - supernovas. Suns' wishes before they die. I accompany the galaxies in their cycle, their dance. And when the dance is done, I return to my home at the edge of the universe, to rebuild it, for it has aged to dust. I construct it out of black holes and quazars, building the walls until they stretch beyond "beyond." When I finish it, enter for an Eternity once more. Out of The Black, and into the Non again.
I am a Titan of the cosmos.


//Did I use any (many) adjectives?? :[

She is a girl. Her name is Lillian. Her thoughts are on other things besides boys and make-up. She does not care about anything. She doesn't even care about herself. She's only living for death. She has a friend. His name is Corduroy. Cordury hates Lillian. He only puts up with her because she has a Xbox 360. One day, he will kill himself over Lillian. She was his very first love. Now he loves no more.




This was actually a very hard challenge. My intro thingy was tre boring

Originally Posted by Itsaboysname

You gotta write something with no adjectives. (WHAT?) Just write a short little scene that conveys a mood but don't use any adjectives. For extra points write a description of something. (This is gonna be sweet!)

Articles are adjectives... this is impossible.

green and empty were the only adjectives i could find right away in yours, Xion.