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Towering Dunes
Describe a desert. Describe the desolation, the heat, the tricks of mirages...use as much detail as you can. Make your reader sweat just by thinking about it, make them dehydrated and lost. It's one of the most boring landscapes out there...so show us why it's such a prominent setting for so many stories.
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JakeAdams

The Desert

I've spent most of my life living in the desert, more specifically in Utah. Maybe it's not a true desert, but to most peoples imagination it meets the criteria. You mention boring, but in truth its one of the most unique and beautiful landscapes you can find. Even when it's corrupted by the human hand the windswept land scape quickly wipes it out, purifying it once again. In many ways it's like looking out into the ocean. Waves crest and fall, it may be the same landscape constantly, but it forever changes, never to really be the same in each passing moment. Imagine this, wind whistles in your ears as you slowly crest the top of the next dune, sand pelts your skin like harsh rain drops as the sun blisters your hands, along your next your face covering billows in the wind. There's not a soul for miles, finally you reach the top. Off in the distance dust devils swirl and sand is carried to the next dune forever changing this landscape like the tides of the ocean.

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