Strictly Shakespeare ~ Creative Writing Monthly Competition

Well gather round ye lads and lassies and harken for a while...it's the first of the month again and time for new, crazy prompts brought to you from the Emerald Isle!
ROLL UP!  ROLL UP! AND TEST YOUR TALENTS IN MAY'S CONTESTS:
PROSE ~ PROMPT ~ A Period Piece = Ditch the contemporary and try your hand at writing anywhen from the days of cave men to the imagination of unseen futures.  Anything that's set in another time frame then your own life span!

POETRY ~ PROMPT ~ A Book in a Poem = Abridge your favourite stories in poetic form from childhood nursery rhymes to Chaucer to Douglas Adams or Doctor Seuss!  Your title should be the story you are telling.

Feel free to discuss ideas or advice on our forum!
As always competition's deadline is midnight on the 14th of May and the Contest is Now officially OPEN!!!!
Let the fun begin!!!

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Promotional Video For Creative Writing Contest!

Poets and authors, bohemians and book worms, welcome to Strictly Shakespeare.
Strictly Shakespeare is a new creative writing community and Monthly competition site.
You don't have to write like Shakespeare to enter!!!

It is open to any amateur writers over the age of 18 and has two separate sections for poetry and prose.

Each month you can submit up to 5 entries in each section based on a monthly prompt!

This month’s prompt is Valentine's Day.

The Top Ten in each contest are then put to the Public Vote to reveal the Cash Prize Winners.

The prizes are dependent upon number of entries so please help grow this community!

Come join the fun and challenge your talent at strictlyshakespeare.com

Can you Write Sex?

Can you Write sex?

First of all there’s way too many pronouns and chronology:  he did this, then she did that which made him blah…

Secondly there are not enough synonyms in the English language for anatomical attributes and not enough fitting superlatives for expression – unless you’re writing really bad sex!

His arm wrapped around her waist while her hand drew soothing patterns on his skin.  His hand found her face and turned her to face him.  With a hand in her hair he held her face tenderly and the look on his face was so expressive and loving….blah blah blah

Lips and mouths are even harder, how can you describe a kiss without awkward repetition?  Then you find yourself with the dictionary open and you’re replacing mouth with orifice or mandible or worst, some clichéd turn of phrase like, ‘the door of his wet heat’, ‘his tongue’s tormented prison’?  Ah the metaphors!  Even the word love is so easily over used and you get more clinical and descriptive – affection, adoration, attraction, amorousness and none of then really mean the same until you’re replacing love with desire as the thesaurus is more forthcoming – adulation, infatuation, yearning, longing, passion, rapture, trembling loins!!!

The problem with physical intimacy is its physical and the emotional connection is powerful but instinctual.  How do you describe the feeling of romance or tenderness or delicacy or the myriad of hope, anticipation, excitement, thrill, fear, insecurity and even technical logistics without losing the heat of the moment?

Answers on a postcard please?

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