OctoPrep 2025

Setting Description

Assignment #18

"Oct. 18 - "CONTEST ROUND: Setting Description:"

"Setting: CONTEST ROUND: Setting Description"

Describe a setting in words. Use all five senses and make your reader experience the setting as if he or she were there.

*Contest Round entries may be any rating. Submit your ITEM or ENTRY number by 1200 noon WDC time on Sunday to compete. WDC time is New York City time and can be found at the top of the IM Console. If you miss this deadline or choose not to compete, you must still log the assignment complete (without linking your work) for the grand prize, per the standard Prep guidelines.

River Passea

Sight

A section of Passea River only a few miles from the foot of the mountain, where it travels through woods. Light filters from the canopy above, will the occasional God rays. The river is deep, looking almost green from the reflection the leaves and other plant life at the shore of the river. Trees sit right on the edge of the shore, some leaning over the river; their roots reaching out of the earth like bony arms. Others, their branches arch over the water.

Hear

The sound of the wind through the leaves is the only thing you'll hear. No birds, no insects, no wildlife. Just the sound of the wind.

Feel

It's a bit unsettling. It errs on the unnatural, the quiet. Like something is preventing life from speaking, or maybe even existing in this section of the River Passea.

Taste

It tastes of green, but sour.

Smell

It smells of earth, of plant life, of bark, of moss, of damp, but it's the damp that slightly over powers the other smells.