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To: Scourge of God

Back to the topic of description, here's something I wrote that (hopefully) puts all the description into the flow of the story.

“Master! The Founder, all praise to his name, has forbidden all contacts with mortals!”

The Sun God chuckled, raising his blond eyebrows in a reassuring nod at his nervous servant. “Dedi, you worry too much. My father is currently busy in a parallel universe. He’ll never even know we stopped here.”

Dedi, a small winged cherub, rubbed his hands nervously. His wings flapped slowly, allowing him to hover near the seven foot tall vision of manly perfection that was the Sun God.

“Master, you said that when you sported with all twenty-four daughters of The High Garrick of the Outer Rim. Yet the Founder banished you to Heaven’s Lowest Kingdom for a decade for that debacle.”

“A little slumming is good for the soul, Dedi. As you’ll remember, I met that lovely Nearly Fallen Angel in a bar there. And five years straight of the banishment passed in her bed.”

“Please, master, let’s learn from our mistakes, just this once?”

The Sun God gave his servant a good-natured slap on the back. A cloud of feathers puffed up from Dedi’s white fluffy wings. “Dedi, I’m an immortal god. Forever is too long without mistakes.”

“Oh, here we go again,” Dedi said, the tips of his wings sagging as he followed his master down the hillside and towards the lights of the small town.


209 posted on 03/30/2007 10:21:46 AM PDT by Scourge of God (Remember, liberals, 'baaa' means NO!)
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To: Scourge of God
Okay, I'm not just returning the compliment. It was funny, engaging, and I could almost see little Dedi's dejection at having to follow the Sun God into more trouble.

Now, the way you interspersed all the action, description, with the dialog, is the way I prefer to write as well. In one smooth flow - all of it coming together seamlessly. So, when I have to stop and write a needed descriptive narrative, it goes against my natural bent.

In just this segment you get the relationship between your two characters right off. Thank you for you sharing. I'm still chuckling.

212 posted on 03/30/2007 11:01:05 AM PDT by carton253 (Not enough space to express how I truly feel.)
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Very well done! [Why do I get the feeling that it is an 'edited out' scene from a recent movie in which The Supreme Being is a female in a leotard and two really bad angels are running about killing people?]
217 posted on 03/30/2007 11:16:32 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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