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NothingWicked:
I wrote this today as a response to the prompt: write a paragraph describing a place that you consider "heaven on earth." It's fairly typical of my style...

<"Heaven on earth" is a state of mind. Just stopping to sit and imagine a beautiful place or experience can bring it out, no matter where I happen to physically be. In my thoughts heaven is a beautiful, still forest. The silence isn't oppressive there, because the immense beauty surpasses all other senses. Shadow and light play between the giant trees and skip over the surfaces of a multitude of ponds that span, limitless, in every direction. Moss and grass mingle at the roots of the great trees, creating a gentle padding that invites me to stay. The crystalline pools of water reflect the lush leaves of the canopy above me, encasing me in the security of all the many shades of green, and I am happy. My mind is in "heaven on earth.">

meg_evonne:
It's lovely and your post in Hooked has interesting comparisions.  I'm not sure where you read 'flat' in your work?  Your writing seems very philosophical.  One of my favorite reads last year was the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.   Have you read it?  I wonder if your 'flat' is another persons enjoyment? 

I guess I'm saying that if you wrote a world as lovely as your Heaven on Earth, I would like to read it.  :-)

NothingWicked:
wow, thanks! I have not read any Paulo Coelho although I think I'll try out the Alchemist. :)

THETA:
I find that i write very modern characters with a much older tone of voice.

My characters of course speak with the snark, sarcasm, and witty repartee that dominates contemporary writing and is currently very popular, but my descriptions of places and omniscient views on characters are usually with the florid style of a much older generation.  Remember how Tolkien took three pages to describe the Old Forest and the dry, intelligent commentary of Jane Austin's third person omniscient narrator?   

Thus i vacillate between fast, humorous, hard, modern dialogue and languid descriptions of characters, moods, and places. 

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