Weekly Writing Challenge #1

Paragraph 1: Using imagery in more research-based paragraphs

True-crime is popular because it gives us an adrenaline rush every time we watch it. In Psychology Today, Scott A. Bonn says, “adrenaline is a hormone that produces a powerful, stimulating, and even addictive effect on the human brain”. While watching true-crime, adrenaline runs through our veins much like riding a rollercoaster. Even though your stomach is in knots and fear is running through your body, you can’t help but become addicted to this feeling. This is why we watch true-crime and keep going back for more. It is similar to the feeling a drug addict has when they are high. They want to constantly feel that sense of euphoria so they keep getting high. Just like a drug addict needs their fix, we need our true-crime fix. We constantly want to watch more because we want to relive the feeling it gave us the first time we watched it, thus, creating a true-crime addiction. True-crime always has us guessing as to what is coming next and keeps us on the edge of our seats. True-crime gives us this adrenaline rush because we can experience fear and thrill while sitting on our couch wrapped in the safety of a warm soft blanket.  

Paragraph 2: Write a scene (a hypothetical scene)

Imagine you are lying down on your bed, wrapped up in a blanket, in the middle of the night, watching a true-crime show. It’s quiet, almost too quiet and it starts to get eerie. Scenes of discarded limbs, blood spattered on walls, a lifeless body, flash before your eyes. You start to hear your heartbeat in your ears, you feel your blood rushing throughout your body, you feel your senses have been dialed up aware of everything around you. Then, you see the murderer. They look like your next-door neighbour, an average joe. Then, they open their mouth to speak and their voice is creepy, making the hair in back of your neck stand up. When they are convicted of the murder, you let out a big sigh of relief that you didn’t know you were holding.