Writing Challenge 7

A little of what you like does you good, but it's never as clear cut...

That's right, a weird topic at that, but this week's topic is Addiction!

Mainly because people are singing this tune to me, and it's getting rather irritating, lol.

But anyway, the same rules apply, 400 words being a rough outline, poems prose accepted. This topic is rather open-ended, could be addiction to everything, although I don't know if there's ever a good addiction. If someone can pull it off, I'll get very happy ^_^

Good luck everyone!

Do I sense Frazzle's first writing comp???

I was thinking the same thing!

Confessions of a gamer.

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Very nice there Blizz
I like the 'hidden' chocolate in the middle

I'll try and do something but at the moment I don't have any ideas.

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WOWWWWWWWWEYY!!!

I can't belive you spotted it!!!

True, bold and straight to the point I think we have a winner!

And when's Closing date Dragon?

Next Sunday, as always.

Blizz: Simple and direct. Like it! lol

You know... I think we should just make another.... I've kinda...got this one in the bag already. *brushes knuckles on shirt pocket*

Here's my entry, it's darn long - I know - but hey, enjoy:

Wow! I might enter this one actually...

Lol, I couldn't help but fall into the trap ^_^', quite amusingly so. Let's say I failed to read the italic along the bottom first time round. So I must congratulate you on that twist, and a very original addiction and that. Good job! ^_^

Even though I feel I may have already lost I will enter 2 pieces. One pretty much straight forward, .ie. boring, expected, cliched. The second though I will try to make a little more interesting...

And I still haven't got a clue what i'm going to do
The only thing i'm moderately good at is poems but a poem on addiction is hard.
Saying that I may have something up within the hour, I surprise myself occasionally

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Neither are very good and I don't have any real free time to sit down and improve them at the mo. The first is more tame, the second is less so. Make of them what you will. Any problems, criticisms, points just say.

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Brotherly Love

3 entries? Come on people!

I completly forgot about this. Wasn't the deadline yesterday?

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Yeah but the winners haven't been announced yet so there is still time.

Come on people!

Yeah, I kept this up hoping that more people would enter ^_^'

Anyway, I've picked TMG's second piece to be the winner. It was quite an original one, and on the border of an OCD-eqsue addiction. Maybe it was, I'm not so clued up about it. The obsession of meticulous cleaning was very well portrayed there, especially by the running thoughts and speech.

Well done to the others who entered Was extremely small, but the entries were of good quality. Especially the hilarity in JB's one

Yeah I don't really have time at the mo to start a new challenge or re-enter one so unless JB or Draconigena want to restart it at the mo I am unable to do so, though they may just want to put it off until the exams are done. Thanks for the win Draconigena sorry about being annoying I just wanted to make sure whether or not I needed to mention it or not.

Apologises for my no show even though I said I would.
Have a lot of coursework to do and I couldn't think of anything decent to write ether.
Maybe temporarily putting it off, as TMG said, would be a good idea.

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Hmm, yup, better to delay it in the bitter exam stress period.

ok, keeping in mind this is my first attempt at one of these, heres an entry from me- its a little short i know, but i havent really written anything like this in a long time.

I see them all around me- they say they could give up anytime. All of them, ignorant fools. But when they are deprived, I see the emptiness in their eyes, their need, hunger- and as vehemently as they deny it, they cant exist without it.
When i'm with them, the smoke swirls around us, laughing, taunting, inviting- the harsh taste of it somehow disturbing and yet intruiging- temptation to join them. But, unlike them, I have vision through the smoke- I've seen what it does, destroying , corrupting, decaying. I have seen yellowing falky skin, peeling from the wretched form of a man who struggles to even breathe.
I take some pleasure from the fact that I know im right That I know, in the end, it will claim all of them- I imagine myself walking in to see them, as they choke on the smoke that once so satisfyed them- but now their is no sating the thirst that bleeds them , slowly, painfully. I see the same yellowy, flaky skin- the same putrid discolouration on the very walls of their home, a vile murial that grows as they shrink.I see in grey mist the face of death itself- yet I offer them no sympathy as they struggle for breath, in fact, I almost laugh- I told them all it would happen, I knew it would happen. They didnt listen, they could give up any time they wanted after all- perhaps it was so, but they never wanted to. And as the claws began to set in, I watched, knowing, as the ignorant began to fall around me. Nothing I could do to save them, they had doomed themselves.
In the beggining, it was , apparently, attractive- yet who would call them, with the stench of dry ash upon their breath, their skin discoloured, their strength drawn away through years of inactivity- who would call them attractive?
I find it rather ironic, as I watch the first of their bodies burn in the funeral pyre -but even as I ponder this cruel comedy, I see those in the crowd lighting up- should I feel guilty that as I watch, I almost want them all to meet this fate? Because even as the smoke rises, the clouds are falling- and the stars are lighting up with them.

edit: just realised the competition ended a while ago! well anyway, have a read and tel me what you think if you can be bothered.

< Edited by GeneralRandom781 on 2004/5/30 9:33 >

really good, good structure, good ideas, I like it maybe it needs a bit of editing...
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real nice