Cedar Writes

Tag: dialogue

  • Be a Mistake

    Be a Mistake

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    (author’s note: flash fiction from a friend’s prompt about giving compliments and how they help the giver more than the given). “It would be a mistake,” she said, crossing her legs and looking out over the water, not at him. Never at him. “To say I didn’t care.” “No?” He stood looking over her head…

  • Stilted Writing

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    I’m reading a couple of novels written by new writers. I’m finding they share something that I have noticed before in debut efforts. I am trying to figure out how to express coherently what the impression they gave me was. My First Reader suggests that perhaps it boils down to ‘spending to much time on…