DESCRIPTIVE DROOBLE'S STORIES

This new game encourages you to explore and focus on the literary device of descriptive writing while using a technique attributed to Russian playwright Anton Chekhov and advocated by the likes of Ernest Hemingway called 'show, don't tell'.

Your aim is to choose an object or person (whatever, really, so long as it’s Harry Potter related) and to explain it in the most complex and abstract way possible. Over describing something simple in whatever complex means you can create. But you won’t only be writing something, your job is also to guess what the person above you is trying to explain!

So long as the content is within SS Site rules, you can use whatever big, elaborate, quirky words you desire. We have set a 100 word limit, though. It doesn’t have to be exactly 100 words, but no more.

Quote:

Originally Posted by #1:

His unkempt dark hair seemingly more teased as a result of his intense concentration, the boy with the lightning bolt scar stared at the game board and carefully selected one of his remaining round black pieces. Green eyes gleaming with possibility, he moved his piece diagonally across the black squares dotting the board and over the piece of his opponent to claim it for his own.

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Originally Posted by #2:

Harry playing checkers?

What once might have been a small cottage now stood a prodigious, misshapen structure. Vertical channels expelling crackling fire smoke implanted higgledy-piggledy on the roof. Expansions made to account for the booming family had been constructed from assorted building materials, until the current structure had lanky, Brobdingnagian proportions, supported by magic.

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