The God of Mischief

Again, for this week, I have been reading Paul Bajoria's The God of Mischief. The author of this book uses such great detail when describing a situation. "The wind certainly was hissing violently through the trees tonight; and his house had turrets, and gables, and roofs which sloped at crazy angles to one another, all of which hooked and snagged the wind and could make it sound like thunder." I believe that description makes a good book. We all describe things though, so does that all make us accomplished authors? And, another query of mine was, we have been pressured from the beginning of elemtary school to use vivid language but what if the object or situation is simple? Does that make us some sort of failure? Some things don't require a hoity-toity definition with words not even a college graduate can comprehend. For instance, I could just say this blog is done... and it is.