C.J.Redwine ([info]c_j_redwine) wrote in [info]sword_stiletto,
@ 2008-08-20 08:02:00
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Get Your Vocab On!
We're running a contest today, here at Swords & Stilettos.  Yes, there is a prize. No, it isn't one of Katy's weapons.  It's a book, of course. Title to be determined.

Here's how to enter:  Write a sentence using the most adjectives and adverbs  you can possibly cram into one sentence while still having that sentence make sense. =)  Leave your entry in the comment section. We're going for the best examples of bad writing we can find.

Have fun with it and everyone who enters will be placed in a drawing for the free book

C.J.'s Example: Ponderously heavy footsteps, the kind that shake the fragile ground like a two-ton load of dusty, weighty chunks of quarry stone, shattered the tenuous illusion of delicate peace offered by the gentle, fragrant, rose-laden breeze wafting slowly out of the gloriously scented, militantly organized, profusely colored English garden.

 




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[info]nomadicdragon
2008-08-20 01:21 pm UTC (link)
*giggles*

She, the delectable, incorrigible, the magnificent, dream-like creature that stoically haunted the darkest, thunderous nights, yet within the hallowed, sacred walls of unlived dreams, this glowing angel magically awoke within my tortured, tormented, beating heart, a ravenous desire to blindly hunt for something, anything to soothe the savage beast in my aching soul.

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 01:23 pm UTC (link)
*collapses with laughter*

I bow before the new Champion Of Over-Description!! Fantastic entry.

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[info]nomadicdragon
2008-08-20 01:25 pm UTC (link)
Are you accusing me of being overly verbose?

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 01:34 pm UTC (link)
Yes.



lmao

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[info]nomadicdragon
2008-08-20 01:34 pm UTC (link)
Well, ok then. lol

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 01:37 pm UTC (link)
Actually, your entry make my entry curl up in the fetal position and cry for its mama.

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[info]nomadicdragon
2008-08-20 01:39 pm UTC (link)
PWNED. lmao

Ok. I shouldn't have had the coffee this morning.

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 01:41 pm UTC (link)
Lol.

Or maybe you should have extra coffee everyday and see where it takes you.

Course, that's a good way to end up in Bangledesh with no clue how you got there...

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[info]nomadicdragon
2008-08-20 01:45 pm UTC (link)
Extra coffee every day is BAD. VERY BAD. Great, now I want starbucks lol

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Yum...Starbuck.

*grabs keys and leaves house*

*blames you*

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[info]nomadicdragon
2008-08-20 01:59 pm UTC (link)
LMAO. Bring me some dammit.

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 02:09 pm UTC (link)
Hmm...if you pay for my gas, I just might.

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[info]nomadicdragon
2008-08-20 02:10 pm UTC (link)
uh. no lol I don't need it that badly. I'll get Jim to stop by Starbucks on the way home lol

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 02:14 pm UTC (link)
*grins*

It was worth a try.

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[info]nomadicdragon
2008-08-20 01:59 pm UTC (link)
oh hey, did you see my post yesterday about this book I have that your sons might like?

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 02:08 pm UTC (link)
No. I was in my writing cave all day and never came out to play. I'll check it out.

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 01:39 pm UTC (link)
*makes*

sheesh.

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[info]wandereringray
2008-08-20 01:54 pm UTC (link)
The sky was gray, deadly gunmetal gray, shining through the tortuously rising sun that scalded my naked eyes with its vicious and careless rays. I pulled down my jaded, crusty, peeling goggles filled with memories of all the mindless brutal death they'd seen. What was the bloody, stupid, point of living to be a dottering ancient fool if all you were going to get was to die a pointless ravening death beneath the jagged steel sky?

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 01:55 pm UTC (link)
*Is profoundly thankful your actual manuscripts don't look like this or I'd have to charge to be your CP*

Nice one. lol.

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[info]wandereringray
2008-08-20 01:57 pm UTC (link)
LMAO.

The scary thing is I think a few of the MSs in my closet do look (yeesh I need more coffee) like that.

Edited at 2008-08-20 02:00 pm UTC

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 02:07 pm UTC (link)
Lol. We've all got a few of those. I use mine to prop up my computer monitor...

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[info]nomadicdragon
2008-08-20 01:59 pm UTC (link)
bwuhahaha. That is awesome.

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It's not what you think...
[info]kerryallen
2008-08-20 03:41 pm UTC (link)
Her eyes---the color of Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate, not milk chocolate and certainly not Dutch cocoa---cast upwards and to the right with an idyllic winsomeness that belied the volcanic ferocity of the savage appetite compelling the beast within, Charlene mumbled indistinctly yet with passion that was very nearly palpable, her sultry words muffled by the copious, lightly furred, succulent folds of Herman's pendulous flesh captured tenderly between her recently professionally whitened and long-ago orthodontically corrected teeth, "I nom your flabberjabber."

Inspired by a LOLdog (cannibal sharpeis), not whatever your gutter-dwelling mind was thinking...

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Re: It's not what you think...
[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 03:50 pm UTC (link)
*chokes on laughter*

My favorite is the "certainly not Dutch cocoa". Brilliant.

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Re: It's not what you think...
[info]kerryallen
2008-08-20 03:58 pm UTC (link)
The scary thing is, it's the best sentence I've written all week. It might be easier to rewrite the entire WIP in this fashion and hack off the excess words in editing.

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Re: It's not what you think...
[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 04:57 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I've had weeks like that. Makes me long to get up from my laptop and do something much more fun. Like laundry. Or scooping dog poop.

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Re: It's not what you think...
[info]wandereringray
2008-08-20 04:00 pm UTC (link)
LMAO.

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Re: It's not what you think...
[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-22 03:18 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations, Kerry! You were the winner in this week's episode of Ponderous Pontification.

I know, I know...the honor is overwhelming. You can now post on your blog that you've won an award for your writing. =D

Email me off loop with your addy and I'll send a paranormal book your way. I'll even give you a couple titles to choose from in case you already own one. :)

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Re: It's not what you think...
[info]kerryallen
2008-08-22 03:36 pm UTC (link)
WOOT!

I'm SO mentioning this in my next query.

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Re: It's not what you think...
[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-22 03:41 pm UTC (link)
Who could blame you?

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Notably not nearly as magnificently modified as all the absolutely atrociously awesome others...
[info]missionimprovisational.blogspot.com
2008-08-20 03:55 pm UTC (link)
Suddenly, the blazing, shocking, scary lightning electrically struck the wet, rained-upon, muddy ground that sat, unsuspecting and innocent, underneath her yawning open window, rudely awakening the sonorously slumbering feline cat within, causing the fuzzy, fur-covered beast to fling itself upon the sagging feather bed, deeply scratching the spoiled, snoring, silly princess perched atop its extravagant bedding.

(Welcome to the S&S Department of Redundancy Department.)

**Note: I remembered to sign in! -DanielleMari**

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Re: Notably not nearly as magnificently modified as all the absolutely atrociously awesome others...
[info]wandereringray
2008-08-20 04:01 pm UTC (link)
*giggles* Nice one!

And way to go Danielle for signing in! :D

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Re: Notably not nearly as magnificently modified as all the absolutely atrociously awesome others...
[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 04:59 pm UTC (link)
Your subject line alone does the trick.

The convoluted awesomeness that is your sentence is just icing on the deliciously decadent but not overly sugary, heavily rainbow sprinkled, chocolately fudgey moist cake.

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Re: Notably not nearly as magnificently modified as all the absolutely atrociously awesome others...
[info]missionimprovisational.blogspot.com
2008-08-20 05:03 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, Wandering for the thumbs up! Of course, it's the post that requires me to write POORLY when I remember to not be the creepy lurker.

HA! CJ. You have a gift!

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Re: Notably not nearly as magnificently modified as all the absolutely atrociously awesome others...
[info]wandereringray
2008-08-20 05:07 pm UTC (link)
Drat it all, CJ! Now I want cake!

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Re: Notably not nearly as magnificently modified as all the absolutely atrociously awesome others...
[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 05:20 pm UTC (link)
I live in a house of cake. I've gotten over the craving. :D

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He Broke Her Heart?
[info]petervonbrown.blogspot.com
2008-08-20 06:06 pm UTC (link)
Greasily rubbing grubby, gnarled and fumbling fat fingers like sausages protruding undeftly from a plump, once upon a time succulently sweet and juicy but now dried, crusty and grossly festering molding foul ham of a hand over her stringy, striped, disturbingly smelly hair the color of a black raven dipped lovingly into a vat of overtoned, shimmering gold likening to earrings so fashionably out of date so as to make even the illustrious and well-known Tim Gunn cry, she sighed both exuberantly and devastatingly about her aching, bloated, cold, stony, hardened beating muscle commonly known as a heart crushed majorly and masterfully by the dark, foreboding, sensuously serious and alarmingly unruly but handsomely attractive gentleman of immense girth who once shined in the tall, lonely stone lighthouse of her bleak, ruined soul. Like she would as if possibly maybe make another bad mistake such as that ever in the future again.

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Re: He Broke Her Heart?
[info]wandereringray
2008-08-20 07:17 pm UTC (link)
*winces* Wow.

:D

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Re: He Broke Her Heart?
[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-20 08:43 pm UTC (link)
*attempts to bow to the master but falls over laughing instead*

That was PERFECT!

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Re: He Broke Her Heart?
(Anonymous)
2008-08-20 10:04 pm UTC (link)
Oh my. Thanks. (blushes)
And here I bowed to you the other day in a comment somewhere...

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Re: He Broke Her Heart?
(Anonymous)
2008-08-20 10:07 pm UTC (link)
i really should give credit to Bart for the "sausage-like fingers" That's one of his. ;) I added on the ham hand, though. (ew)

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Re: He Broke Her Heart?
[info]nataliehatch.blogspot.com
2008-08-20 11:13 pm UTC (link)
What a mouthful, this sentence just goes on and on and on and on.... don't know if I can come up with anything this verbose.

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Re: He Broke Her Heart?
[info]missionimprovisational.blogspot.com
2008-08-20 10:03 pm UTC (link)
"festering, molding, foul ham of a hand"

Hahahaaaaaaa!!! ICK!

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[info]baronesspixie
2008-08-20 09:07 pm UTC (link)
Alexandrina tossed her perfectly shaped, delicate, sculptural—in a Grecian sort of way, not like a Rodin or, heaven forfend, a Picasso—head, letting the thick, rich, melancholic-hued, Elizabeth Siddall auburn-red curls of her abundant tresses wave over the faintly tanned skin of Joachim’s epicly sculpted cheek, knowing it would only entice him like the emerald, sinuous, glitter-eyed viper of Eden to kiss her with as much wanton abandon as Adam, the first of all foolish, misled, selfish males, to bite into the succulent, rosy apple.

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[info]wandereringray
2008-08-20 10:30 pm UTC (link)
*laughs* That rocked! Very well horribly done!

Edited at 2008-08-20 10:30 pm UTC

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[info]c_j_redwine
2008-08-21 04:01 am UTC (link)
LOL! Melancholic-hued...priceless.

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