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Continue reading →: Creating a WatermarkThe myth is you tell AI to create something and it is done. That isn’t how it worked with a watermark image I wanted to brand some quote images that I created. Originally the watermark was created using Copilot by asking it to create a circular watermark image featuring a…
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Continue reading →: Valerie as ValeriaI was formatting a draft story with the working title “Model Ex-Wife.” It turned out to be a Valerie story in which she was the heroine and got the guy in the end. Valerie rarely gets the guy as she is often framed as the “work-wife.” Valerie is an archetype…
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Continue reading →: Excerpt from “Kuudere Psychiatrist”I had been working on formatting my “Kuudere Psychiatrist” draft. It is about a man undergoing a psych evaluation after his ex-girlfriend made a false DV accusation. Below is a snip from the dialogue after formatting the draft. ** Draft Dialogue Snip, in progress ** Vanessa stayed quiet, but he…
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Continue reading →: Geronimo vs. MexicansInteresting historical event, the Battle of Janos, to research for my draft novel Geronimo’s Spirits about a future 21st century Apache-Mexican War in which Chappo leads a band of Apache & Commanche into Mexico to destroy the cartel responsible for the fentanyl death of Chappo’s brother Tak.
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Continue reading →: A Boy Named GaylordThe other day Dankula made a joke about Gaylord Perry’s first name. Back in the 70s when Perry was playing, I don’t recall giving his first name a second thought. Looking at stats for baby names, it is a name that took a dive in popularity decades ago. There might…
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Continue reading →: Feminist on a Blind DateFormatted a draft with the working title “Feminist on a Blind Date,” which I found to be a funny dialogue. Her contribution to the dialogue was the same ideological talking points repeated throughout the date from after the introductions to him leaving her in the parking lot as he drove…
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Continue reading →: Unique Female Character NamesA problem with trying to use unique character names across my draft stories is that I have more than 600 characters. During formatting of drafts, I began using the French name Guy as a placeholder for male names that were duplicated in other stories. To create an inventory of potential…
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Continue reading →: Character Images Using GrokI like creating an AI image to go with a story or character as he helps me visualize them for editing. Recently Gemini has become non-functional for creating human images and Copilot is becoming increasingly crippled by constraints. I just wanted an image created of a fat teenage boy dejected…
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Continue reading →: Two TribesConfesses that Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Two Tribes” was conceptually a big influence on my anti-war novel, Boudica and The Butcher.
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Continue reading →: Localizing DraftsI was formatting a draft story with working title “Guy on the Train” about a misunderstanding on a Japanese train. On a Saturday night, a young man (Kashoka) tries to run game on young woman (Akane) with a traumatic past. She ends up having a break down and he gets…
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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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