Cedar Writes

Tag: Characterization

  • Odd Prompts: Coming Home

    Odd Prompts: Coming Home

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    A snippet of something I wasn’t planning to write, I’m just happy I finally managed to write for a prompt again! *** “I’ll bring it back with me.”  The young man patted the dry, peeling siding. It was cool to his touch. A movement in the piled dead leaves covering most of the yard caught…

  • Rescuing the Hero

    Rescuing the Hero

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    I made a rash comment a while back, and a combination of ‘brainnnzzz’ due to traveling and my usual tendency to write in mental shorthand (which drives my editors crazy too) meant that my thoughts came out garbled. So I decided I’d better unpack what I meant and make it clearer. Hopefully clear enough to…

  • Tough Old Birds

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    Robert Hoyt (a budding young author and webcomic artist) made this comment on the bookface yesterday. “This has always bothered me: If the standard for when a student has completed his training is when he has bested his master, and you’ve picked for your mentor the classic “extremely old man” archetype, what do you do…