Challenge: Write a setting based on the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen.
Leaving a pale-orange hue in its wake, the sun began to dip behind the cluster of mountains. The east had already given way to night, but the mountains in the west resisted, propping up the light and holding the darkness at bay.
The nearest ridge, with jagged knots like the spine of a sleeping dragon, stretched for miles, and as it began to cast a broad shadow on the countryside below, it seemed that the dragon just might rise when the sun set.
A breeze stirred the long blades of grass at the base of the ridge, and the sprawling countryside rippled like the ocean before a storm. The contoured terrain ebbed and flowed, and gazing out, you could almost imagine one of the great swells rising to meet you.
In an effort to start the summer strong, I’m doing Writer’s Digest’s 12-Day Plan.
Miles Away 