Jaycee Woods

Last year, I split up my first pass edit process into separate technical and creative substeps, which has helped me to start editing all my entire draft backlog. As part of that, I created a brief summary for each story in editing.

Lots of variety as I had spent a year drafting short stories without any plan other than to practice storytelling.

Below is a listing by category.

Boudica and The Butcher (novel)

The Butcher meets a female medic treating an injured Boudica.

Comrade Thumper confronts rebel soldier Mina who she found searching for food in the rubble of besieged Pilgerruh during the Second America Civil War.

Ringo finds Dallas in the Pilgerruh ruins where he offers her an escape from the war by accepting her punishment for being a rebel.

Geronimo’s Sons (novel)

Chappo uses deception to convince Smokey, Tak’s dealer, to lead him to the next link in the cartel’s distribution operation.

Searching for information on the cartel, Chappo meets one of the cartel’s migrant slaves, Aisha.

Undercover Chappo infiltrates the cartel as hired muscle for Nidia, head of distribution on the US side of the border.

The Misadventures of Chad Seeking a Wife (novel)

Chad goes on a blind date with a 300-pound body positivity activist.

Chad gets rejected by his devout blind date Enid, because he is an atheist.

Chad’s blind date Lillith cosplays as a demon IRL.

Captive (genre)

Fan Cynthia kidnaps then shot famous actor Brad. (Occurs before “Cyn’s Trap”.)

Fan Cynthia kidnaps famous actor Vic and he subdues her. (Occurs after “Cyn’s Obsession.”)

General Sargon teaches Princess Varuca to become honest instead of a spoiled brat so she can marry Prince Henri.

Armed only with his words in defense, Percy finds himself caged by the criminal mastermind Madyson.

Kenji recognizes Mya as death when she enters his home to assassinate him.

Sadistic prosecutor Kamala wants to fry Rence for murder, but she turns out to be his alibi witness.

In 14th century France, Claude captures young Hana stealing a loaf of bread to feed her starving family.

Psychiatrists at the Bedford Falls Mental hospital conduct an illegal experiment to breed a sociopathic serial killer (Alice) with a mentally disabled veteran (Owen).

Cheaters (genre)

Lia confronts Terry over him breaking up with her best friend Stepanie after Steph confessed to kissing another guy.

Jacob surprised his wife Hana in the hotel room where she had arranged to cheat on him.

Children Stories (genre)

Big E gets Gran’pa’s help to learn to make friends.

Big A and Gran’pa go fishing together.

Skippy meets Tiger Cat who is looking for a rat in an alley; they start a friendship.

Skippy meets the monster under his bed.

A Disney princess style series origin story, Lord Akamatsu adopts a feral foundling and names her Kedakai.

Dating (genre)

Ellie becomes offended when her blind date Paul quickly establishes that they are not a match due to conflicting life goals.

Entitled Griselda and honest Jerry have a terrible blind date followed by her own introspection.

Fantasy (genre)

Young mage Clem confronts his former master Mort on a battlefield to convince him to find a way other than war to turn back chaos.

Bevan comes to Fillia’s aid after kobolds attack her home.

Princess Yuzu offers her father’s surrender to Lord Metaphor to end a war between their realms.

Arwin confronts her human companion Aeddan with her bigoted elf supremacist views.

Tofano offers to help Aaliyah, a succubus queen, raise a SIMP army for her to conquer the earthly realm through OnlyFans.

Princess Liselotte confides in Phillip her distress over an impending arranged marriage to the sadistic prince from a neighboring kingdom.

Jaeger finds the fugitive assassin Elara to discover her motivation.

Bang Bang finds Yuna near dead in the forest. He helps to heal her body and then her mind with vengeance.

Girlfriend (genre)

Dirk wakes to a jealous girlfriend slapping his face causing him to remind her what is important in their relationship.

Jon confronts addict Hannah after he comes home to find his girlfriend hiding her meth pipe.

Homeless Females (genre)

A strange man with unknown intent takes in a homeless 12-year-old girl.

Humor (genre)

Wally delivers a standup routine to explain his recent breakup from Bambi.

Marlon has a dream about an angry woman who looks like his wife Stella but is not. (Occurs before “Another Round.”)

Gio asks the Chair’s consent to sit.

Clownie and Strauss meet at the circus, where they decide to run away together to wed.

Marriage (genre)

Marlon and Stella engage in marital conflict until Marlon self-deletes & she realizes his value to her. (Occurs after “Wrong Door Named Discord.”)

Tina confronts her husband Mark over feeling neglected because he works so much.

Origin Stories (genre)

Haruka unsuccessfully attempts to seduce her neighbor Tom in the elevator. (Note: this series is intended to be like the Roadrunner cartoon, where Haruka is the coyote.)

Roommates (genre)

Secretly in love with Ben, Fernanda goes behind his back to arrange for them to be college roommates.

The morning after a blind drinking binge in which Paul hooked up with an unknown redhead at the bar, Paul confronts Scarlett for failing as a wingman.

Shippers (genre)

Kaoru both wanted and did not want her ex-boyfriend Haruto back; seeing that she did not love herself, he offered to become her senpai on a journey of self-healing.

Refugee Mariya meets Gavin at school where they discuss cultural differences.

Ayame tries to convince Shingo to become her boyfriend despite his rejection years before.

Dr Shohei Akamatsu agrees to marry his terminal patient Suzu so she will not be neglected in the afterlife.

Finding George spying on her friend Umeko, Kami decided to assert her own claim over the boy’s heart.

Will and Ellie’s situationship takes an unexpected turn when he tells her that night will be their last.

Heiress Hime, in frustration at not being able to get Caleb’s attention, becomes his maid to be close to him.

Slave (genre)

Jaxon frees Kio, a kitsune with emotional healing powers, from slavery.