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Continue reading →: Dubhán and NechtanOne of my shortest stories is really a scene in which two wizards confront each other on a recent fantasy battlefield. Both seek to oppose a faceless chaos consuming the world (aka us in current year), one through war while the other advocates peace. A conflict akin to Ditko’s “The…
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Continue reading →: Haruki CoincidenceListening to chapter 25 of Rebels of Gor when I was surprised by the name of one of the shogun’s gardeners, Haruki, as last year I had used that name for a huntsman in my short story “Nature’s Foundling,” set in feudal Japan. Same name for two similar characters in…
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Continue reading →: Modern Peasant’s RevoltNew story idea…A fictional story based on the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. It is set in modern times but people are identified by feudal roles. The concept is to draw parallels between modern life and the feudal great chain of being. Are we just peasants laboring for our politician lords…
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Continue reading →: Research: The Butcher’s BackstoryPrompt: Note that The Butcher fights for the Union. This is one of those few stories in which the rebels are bad guys. Before college he had been special forces doing the government’s dirty jobs in the jungle. While in school he stayed part of the Guard, where he became…
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Continue reading →: Bowie’s SouvenirI am working on formatting a draft teaser story for Boudica and The Butcher. The purpose of such teaser short stories is to introduce elements of the story world to build interest in the novel. Bowie in this story would be one of Tak’s men. Early in the siege of…
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Continue reading →: Research: Siege as StrategyPrompt: Everyone who doesn’t evacuate the city dies. The rebel army breaks down into gangs that fight each other for resources. Like Tamerlane, The Butcher chooses to brutally erase a rebel city so every other rebel city would surrender without a fight at the sight of his army. Copilot: That’s…
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Continue reading →: Girl at the BarFormatting a Chad story with the working title “Girl at the Bar.” It gives an early look at Chad after Iris’ death. This is before he started his quest to find a wife through blind dates arranged by Mary. This won’t be a chapter in The Misadventures of Chad Seeking…
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Continue reading →: Research: Women in a SiegePrompt: Before the disease takes hold, The Butcher allows the women to evacuate. However, they are not to become refugees but to be enslaved. The alternative is for them to fight and die in the siege of the city. The rebel men are losing their wives, girlfriends, and daughters to…
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Continue reading →: AI Image Prompt EnhancementI use AI image creation for inspiration as I edit story drafts. Artistly has a feature that will enhance prompts input for image generation. Editing of the enhanced prompt before image creation is an option. As a test, I took the beginning of my “Activist Ana” draft to use as…
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Continue reading →: Research: Children in a SiegePrompt: The children are allowed to evacuate first but without their mothers. The rebels are punished with the idea that they must give up their children in order to save the kids’ lives. The policy is to increase the rebels suffering to break their will, but also to horrify the…
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I’m Jaycee
Currently, I am a drafter and plodding editor of my own fiction stories. Looking towards the future when edited stories turn into published ones.
Here I am starting to bare my soul to give you a preview of what I have been working on.
See “Harvest of Blood” in this site’s menu bar for a preview of a draft chapter from Boudica and The Butcher, a novel set in a future Second American Civil War.
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