Greetings all,

What I thought might be fun is to start an ongoing alliterative writing challenge where the aim is to construct a single sentence or short passage using as many different words as possible that begin with the same sound. An example of alliteration: Sing a Song of Sixpence.

To follow in a similar vein as the Spring Haiku Challenge, the last letter of the last word of the previous submission will determine the alliterative sound to use for your composition.
To further the challenge, a theme for your composition will be decided upon by the previous author which you'll need to incorporate into your writing. Examples of themes: Love, War, Animals, Outer-space, Music, Amusement rides, Nature, Bravery, Adventure, Achievement, Junk food, etc. Try not to select too specific a theme as this will restrict creative freedom and may prove difficult to incorporate.

As a final note, be aware that just because a word begins with the same letter as your other words doesn't mean it is suited for use in alliteration; words with silent first letters for instance. Example: honour, pneumatic, knight, photograph. These words would indeed sound out of place when spoken in context, so be sure to use them correctly. (ie, honour = 'o' sound; pneumatic/knight = 'n' sound; photograph = 'f' sound). To prevent confusion and debate it will be simpler to just avoid using these types of words altogether.

Well, that's about it, so I'll begin... with the letter A, on the theme of: Vegetables

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Andre the amiable antelope ambled athletically along an ample avenue admiring an abundant array of appetising artichokes and asparagus available for acquirement as advertised.

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Phew. Ok, so the next composition will need to use words beginning with the letter 'd'. The theme I choose is: Spooky

So who's up for the challenge? :)

That was an incredible sentence! Whew.

OK, let's try this one.....

Dark, dusty, dismal dungeons down deep, dour docks dare daunted donors to dash and dart depressed and dispirited down drives till dawn.

Did I do the right?

Sounds like the letter N is up next.    Theme : Nighttime

Haha.. great work,  though it's a little confusing at the beginning due to the inclusion of 'dour docks'; omitting these words would make the sentence more structurally sound. I'm not exactly sure what 'dock' means in this context; perhaps you could explain?

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Natalia the nocturnal nymphomaniac naughtily nuzzled the neck of a neighbouring nightclubber, nudging him nearer.

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Letter: R
Theme: Urgency

Dour means harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance.
Docks are where ships 'park' (haha) to load and unload cargo.
Therefor  the donors don't want to go to the dungeons which are at the docks but the dungeons are like a challenge to the donors daring them to visit them... (Something like that....)

OK:

Roller rubbers rocked, as Ricky rapidly rode rally rides round roughly racked rocks wrapped with rope.

Letter O
Theme round

Actually, the last letter in your composition was an E, so I'll use that.

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Eleven exceptionally energetic elephants eagerly endeavour to encircle the Earth's equator while engulfing enormous elliptical Easter eggs.

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Letter: S
Theme: Water

Oh I love that one..... I hate wasting this as that is such a great theme for the S's and I'm not in the writing mood but here it goes anyway....

Slight surf spray sends sensuous silky shivers swimming softly over skin, but stay in steamy summer spring spas so salty sweat secretes in surrender.

Letter:    R
Theme: Emotions.

Reproduction ready romantic rhinoceri(?) read really ridiculous revealing romance poems,redolent with redundant rhyme.

Great game.Love it!

Letter: E
Theme: Atmosphere/mood

Wow, it took me so long to come up with this I wasn't sure E would still be the letter. Here's mine.

Ethel entered the eerie entombment expecting to encounter ethereal earth encrusted entities but only exposed exceedingly large earthworms eating éclairs.

Letter is S
Theme is Romance

Have fun.

~jon

That certainly has atmosphere!...'E' for excellent! LOL.

Sultry Sarina's  smooth silken sari swept softly past the soulful sitting sultan as he sipped sweet spirits from a single silver sculpted shotglass.

Letter : S
Theme is Humor

 
Several sozzled sailors set south sailing surprisingly seaworthy ships, singing silly songs of sickening submarines and sizzling salted sausages.

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Welcome, Margana and jstro. It's great to have you on board, and outstanding compositions both of you! :)

Sorry, looks like S strikes again. :)

Letter: S
Theme: Weather

Storm-tossed sailing ships scour surging seas in search of silent serene shores of soft silken sand and sun-filled skies.

Hi Drekinn.Love this game!And yours is so funny!

Oops! It's S again!

Letter: S
Theme: Love

I'm hoping to work Iraq into one as the last word. Won't Q be fun!

Sorry, I digress. I'll be good now. ;-)

jon

Shane swung off his Shagya stallion to swiftly sweep Sarah off her feet and smooched her with smoldering passion.

I am hoping to finish one of these off with Iraq, or sex. Won't Q or X be grand!

But not this time. ;-)

The letter is N.
The theme is Fantasy.

~jon

LOL 'Q' would at least be somewhat workable,but I'm afraid 'X' would end the game!

Neptune's naked nymphs and naiads in Nichelle Nichol's fantasy novels never need necessitate nocturnal Netherworld nightmares in noble non-profane novices.

Oops oh no! Sorry.'S' again!

Letter: (sigh) S
Theme: Horror

Screaming and shreiking,  Susan Smith started. She swiped the stream of sweat sliding slowly south. Suddenly she stared stonily at the source of scare. Some silly spider, stringing silk, suspended stealthily to strike. 'Silly spider....SMASH'.

Letter: H

Theme: Motivation

LOL!

Husky hardheaded Harvey hesitated having to hold off his hunger with healthy high-protein  horrors,but he hated his harmful humungous heft!

Letter: T
Theme: Bravery

 
Trevor the tremendously timid tiger teetered tortuously as he tiptoed tentatively atop a trembling tenuous tightrope towering a tank teeming with terrifying tarantulas.

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Welcome to the thread netsia. It's great to see newcomers, and let me shower you with thunderous applause and praise for your first contribution. Well done! :)

Sorry for not posting here for a few days, as I've been busy penning a poem in honour of my mother for her special day today. You can check out my handiwork here.

Sorry also for landing us back to the letter S. Those pesky plurals seem to sneak up on you. :)

Letter: S
Theme: Technology

Poor Trevor! LOL.

Sadly,sometimes,silly self-reproving surfers scour support sites for speedy suggestions and simplistic solutions to solve sizable, sensitive situations started by searching seedy,sleazy sites selling seduction to sorry, sex-starved slackers.

And 'S' again...sigh...sorry! Maybe,if there are two 'S' letters in a row,the second to last letter should be taken.It's just a thought...

Letter :S
Theme: Mother/Motherhood

It seemed appropriate for today. :^)

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NEW RULE

Great idea, Marlene. Yes, there's obviously going to be a high recurrence of the letter S, due to the use of plural words,
so the new rule is that if S occurs twice in a row then the second-last letter will need to be used in the following composition.

So I guess R is up for the offering this time round. :)

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Glad I could help.

Help stamp out, eliminate, and reduce redundancy.

 
Righteous Ruth regretted readying a repast of revolting roasted radishes for her rascally rapacious Riley, who rudely retaliated, writhing and retching, ranting and raving, refusing his rattle, and ramming his reddened rash-ridden wrists repeatedly upon the rails of his restraining rocker, reducing it to rack and ruin.

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Awwwh.. aren't kids cute - the joys of motherhood.

Could it be? Yes, it's an N! What rapture!

Letter: N
Theme: Disgusting

LMAO!Great one!

'N' huh?I'm sure 'nauseating' is bound to end up in that one!

Too late for me now.If no one grabs it,I'll try tomorrow.

'Night! ;^)

Oops...forgot about this...Okay,here's my try...

A nefarious neanderthal named Nino naively never knew nibbling nasty nasal nuggets nauseated new novia nice Nita,'til noble Noah notified Nino it's not nearly nourishing and naturally negative.

You wanted disgusting!LOL.

Letter: E
Theme: Nonsense

Egads, entranced in external embarrasment he exhumed egrets excessively when eating eggs and enchiladas with echinacea, eluding execrable Escherichia-coli eternally. ____________ I was unsure how nonsensicle to make it...fun stuff. =] Letter: Y Theme: Wealth

Yapping Yates yelled yammeringly,"You yearn for yesterday, yet you yen for yon young youthful youngster's yearly yield,you yellow-bellied yokel you!"

Doesn't make much sense I know,lol.

Glad you joined in Kortalouche.Good one and plenty nonsensical!

Letter: U
Theme: Emotions

 
Ursula the uptight and unremitting urchin upset her unaspiring unemployed Uncle Urbert in urging him to undergo an unsolicited undertaking as an undergraduate of upholstery.

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Ouch, that was the trickiest combination yet.
Welcome, Kort. Nicely formed gibberish for your first contribution.

Letter: Y
Theme: Disaster

Yowling yokels yammered in yiddish as yellow yuppy yettis yelled yeehaw! Letter: W Theme: Dance

Wicked well-proportioned Welsh wenches wearing well-worn woven woolen waistcoats wriggle,writhe and whirl wantonly when wolfish  whiskery womanizing workmen  wildly whistle wistful wacky whimsical Weber warbles.

Whew!!!

LOL!

Letter: S
Theme: Idiocy

 
Sam the stupefyingly senseless simpleton and steadfast salesman strolled snappily along sunny suburban sidestreets struggling to sell sheepskin snowmobile seatcovers to senile senior-citizens in the sweltering season of summer.

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Marlene: Haha...great! :laugh:

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Letter: R
Theme: Surrealism

LOL! Yours is great!

Ridiculously rabid reactionary rationalists recommend realism to randy,reproducing reptilian rabble-rousers and red rutabega-retching romantic raccoons reading really repetitive rhyming rhetoric in Romania's risque' rabbit-ridden red-light region,which reputedly reeks of rotten regurgitated roses and revoltingly rank recycled refuse.

Letter: E
Theme: Hobbies/Recreation

 
Elwin the exceedingly educated electronics expert, electrophysics engineer and egotistical egghead endowed with an extraordinarily enlarged encephalon, enjoys encrypting expanded encyclopaedias on existentialism into early-era Egyptian.

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For those with dirty minds, an 'encephalon' is actually the medical term for 'brain'. :rolleyes:
Marlene: That last entry of yours should be immortalised for all time - just brilliant. :thumbupboth:

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Letter: N
Theme: Junk Food

Thank you very much!That means a lot coming from you.

What's amazing is how coherent yours is! 'E" for excellent!!!

May take a bit for this one...Junk food...hmmmm...

Ne'er-do-well negligent Nicaraguan neophytes in natty needlepoint negligees, noisily nibbling nocuous non-nutritive nachos 'n naively noshing nauseatingly nasty noodles, nonchalantly name it, nevertheless,'naughty nirvana'.

Best I could do...

Okay...

Letter: A
Theme: Fables/Myths/Legends

 
Aesop the abnormally avid aviator and anxiously ardent admirer of animals, arduously assembled an almighty aeronautical ark in an attempt of abducting all alligators, alpacas, apes, aardvarks, antelopes, adders and even ants, in an audacious act of avarice and anarchical autocracy.

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Marlene:
Spendiferous!
Sorry about the delay on this one; I thought I'd allow opportunity for others that might like to join in, as participant numbers seem to have dwindled somewhat. Oh well, all the more silliness for us to enjoy. Thank you so much for your kind and confidence-boosting compliments - they -too- mean a lot coming from -you-. :biggrin:
Sorry also for aiming yet another Y in your direction, though I'm sure the elected theme will prove easy enough.

Letter: Y
Theme: Colour

Yes,thanks...LOL...I have one word...yellow...Big help!
:tongue2:

LOL I'm kidding....

Hey,maybe someone will grab it...if not I'll tackle it tomorrow. :^)

Ah now I know why this slipped my mind!'Y' isn't easy...I must have put it on the back burner mentally and then walked away from the stove.Just too hot for the 'kitchen' these days,lol.

Don't mind me if I make no sense...It's impossible to concentrate in this disgusting weather,lol.

I'll be back.

DREKKIN wrote, "Greetings all,

What I thought might be fun is to start an ongoing alliterative writing challenge where the aim is to construct a single sentence or short passage using as many different words as possible that begin with the same sound. An example of alliteration: Sing a Song of Sixpence."

DREKKIN: Hello. To begin with, I am 'writers' challenged.

Next, your above description, to me at least, reminded me to just watch the C-SPAN
networks to find such statements.

"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". WINK.

DREKKIN. I tried finding your gallery here. Did I miss it? You have such a talent
with words it must suggest you have written before quite well.

Is such available for those, like myself, wanting to get better (if that's possible)
with written skills?

My best to you and yours, kind soul ....

TallPockets/brian.

Seems to me you already demonstrate quite a proficiency yourself,TP/Brian.

Want to try doing 'Y'?

Please...

Pretty please?

LOL. ;^P

Yoked yellow yetis yelled, yelped, yowled and yapped, yearning for yummy yoghurt, yams and yolks, yanking young yodelling yobbos to Yorkshire.

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Marlene: Not up to the task? Oh no! I fear all that oppressive humidity may have caused the literary part of your brain to melt out of your ears! :scared:

TP:

Quote - I tried finding your gallery here. Did I miss it?

After much navigating through all the new (frustrating) site changes myself, I've managed to find my gallery here.

Quote - You have such a talent with words it must suggest you have written before quite well.

Thank you for the compliment, TP. I see by your bio that you too are equally gifted with word-weaving.
To be honest, I have no literary history of any notable merit, and up until recently I'd never considered writing as a serious endeavour. Renderosity's writing community has helped in providing me with a means to channel my inner expressions and ideas, and I now look upon writing with a great sense of relish and aspiration.

Quote - Is such available for those, like myself, wanting to get better (if that's possible)
with written skills?

I believe the key to success is to do lots of reading, writing, and rewriting.

Letter: E
Theme: Apathy

Okay,here I am...finally. :^)

Evil-tongued,entirely embittered egomaniacs, excessively envenomed,expend enormous energy effusively emphasizing embellished erroneous extortion-like 'evidence'...ergo emboldening embryonic,empty-headed, emulating,eager-to-please entities,to effront,estrange and exasperate,erudite,earnest,easy-going erstwhile enthusiasts,eventually extinguishing every effervescence and effecting extensive entropy-like environments.

At first this ended in 'Y' so I changed it,lol.

Letter: S
Theme: Humor
 

:b_unbelievable: No way I could follow that...just wanted to say, "EXCELLENT JOB!!!" :thumbupboth:

Thanks Kortalouche.:m_wink:

 
Startled by a sudden strange sound, the softly snoozing shepherd stopped snoring, sprung to a striking stance, scanned the surrounds, and spotted with surprise a sinister snake, suited-up in a stretchy semi-silver sweatsock, slithering steathily as it stalked the spooked sheep who stood silently-stunned and shocked at seeing this seriously-skinny and seemingly severely-shorn serpentine sibling.

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Marlene: Great to see you back, and with yet another outstanding record-breaker in alliterative writing.

Ooh, looks like a debut for the letter G. Goodie gumdrops!

Letter: G
Theme: Television

Wow! Marlene, that was amazing and it made sense. Sounded like one of the word battles that my friends and I have. :D

Funny, Drekinn! I'm reading this, but I just can't get any written. Too much work and too little time here and my brain's dead with heat. :(

Oh my...I never got these ebots you guys!I thought it ended with me...

If you ever have the time,Hanevi,it's quite a fun challenge.

Okay,I'll attempt 'g' since it seems no one wants it,lol...

Just give me some time...(LOL Like anyone else is running with it!). .:^P

Grumpy Grandpa Gordon who gleefully gawps at glitzy gameshows, Groundforce gardening gurus, and grand golfing galas, gasped grievously then glowered grouchily at what greeted his glaring gaze when glued to the gamma-rays: gaudy garrulous Golden Girls garbage.

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Oh my, how sad; since nobody seems to want to participate in this thread anymore I've decided to continue the challenge by myself. To those who are interested please feel free to join in anytime.

Letter: E
Theme: Underwater

Aw...I'm sorry...I've just fallen behind on so many things lately,I've had to put this on the back burner.I hope you understand...

Enchantingly eloquent elderly electric eels eagered earnestly to enlighten ever-elusive erratic elvers by enunciating enticing episodes of elegantly engineered epics.

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Letter: S
Theme: Cartoons

Squidward sat sleepily on a silky spread of softened satin, sunning his sallow skin, sipping schooners of sparkling sarsaparilla, and savouring the soothing sounds of his sensational CD of saxaphone serenades.
  'Ahh, Sunday' said Squidward, 'Silence, solitude, and sheer serenity.'
  'SURPRISE, SQUIDWARD!'
  Squidward shrieked, shooting skywards in shock, spilling sarsaparilla onto his CD, and soaking his satin sheet.
  'SPONGEBOBBBBBB!!' shouted Squidward, severely.
  Spongebob Squarepants had snuck up secretly and stood smiling stupidly, seizing a small spade and sandbucket.
  'Sorry, Squidward,' said Spongebob.
  'So you should be, Spongebrain!' snarled Squidward, squelching and slopping in a sea of sarsaparilla.
  Seeing Squidward seething, Spongebob surrendered his spade and sandbucket as a seemly solution. 'Sandcastles?' he suggested, and started scurrying around, skilfully shaping structures, singing shanties and spraying sand inside Squidward's shirt.
  'SPONGEBOBBBBBB!!' screamed Squidward, steaming as he stormed off.

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You know you've gone too far when you start constructing entire scripts. :rolleyes:

Letter: F
Theme: Magic

LMAO!

You cracked me up here!

I sooo wish I had the time!

Thank you,Drekinn. :^)

Fantasma the friendly but fumbling fairy frowned fretfully as the fetid frog she fancied on fashioning into a fancifully frisky fiance frizzled frightfully in a flash of frenzied fireworks fuming of foulest flatulence.

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Margana: Hehe.. glad to hear it's entertaining. :biggrin:

Letter: E
Theme: Cooperation