Cedar Writes

Tag: writing mystery

  • Odd Prompts: What Train?

    Odd Prompts: What Train?

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    A snippet from the ongoing WIP.  I’m only putting the bits with the prompt responses up here, as I am not entirely sure what this thing is going to be, or where it will be published when complete.  *** “I don’t know what you have against Dmitri.” Branch didn’t speak until we were in the…

  • Wonderland: Part 3

    Wonderland: Part 3

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      More prompted writing serial, which I started here, and continued here. I may need to go re-read Alice in Wonderland before I write more of this, or I may just massively abridge the conceptual bits I remember into this weird story. And no, it is not a fantasy. At most I’ll do a little…

  • Life is Muddy Waters

    Life is Muddy Waters

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    Life is long, and boring, and confusing, and painful, and goes by too fast, and far too exciting, except when it isn’t and it’s all very opaque.   I got to get out on the river yesterday, for what was not only my first time in a kayak, but to help with Stream Quality Monitoring…

  • Plea Bargaining: Part 1

    Plea Bargaining: Part 1

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    This semester, I am writing a lengthy term paper with an assigned topic. Plea bargaining… sounds boring, right? Well, it turns out that perhaps more than 95% of criminal cases end in a guilty plea, with only a very small fraction of cases ever proceeding to trial. So whether it’s a good thing, or a…