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Continue reading →: I Understand and I’m SorryRecently adding to the draft for Boudica and The Butcher, Boudica confessed to him, “I love you.” While this was already evident through her actions, choices, and inner monologue, she verbalized it for the first time. Given her propensity towards the verbal, this exception of not saying until much later…
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Continue reading →: Meet-cute SceneSince meet-cute scenes are a thing, I included one in Boudica and The Butcher. It gets revisited several times in the narrative with additional details and different perspectives. On meeting during a battle, The Butcher smashes Boudica’s skull with the hilt of his machete nearly accidentally killing her. Adorable; she…
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Continue reading →: Heroic SacrificeI was listening to Red at Overly Sarcastic Productions talk about heroic sacrifice as a trope when I thought to myself that I wouldn’t write that into a story. However, I realized that is exactly what The Butcher is trying to do in my Boudica and The Butcher draft. In…
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Continue reading →: Gen. Broderick vs The ButcherI drafted a new chapter for Boudica and The Butcher. It was the confrontation between major general Broderick and his subordinate brevet brigadier general Gideon Sheridan (aka The Butcher). This new chapter went well and occurs well after what I have drafted so far. Below is the description outlines for…
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Continue reading →: More Boudica and the Butcher DraftingI took a break from editing to draft some more of Boudica and The Beast. In the new drafting, I expanded on the reasons The Butcher chose Pilgerruh (aka Cleveland) to siege. Immediately, he cut off critical rail lines supporting rebel cohesion in the Great Lakes region by blocking rail…
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Continue reading →: Snapping Spines
There is a line in my edited draft for “Harvest of Blood“, the first chapter of Boudica and The Butcher, that has nagged me as too overused; plus, it was added as a placeholder. That section reads: The medic gasped at his revelation, which struck her speechless. She looked at…
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Continue reading →: Mata’s Extended StoryOne of the key milestones to be drafted in my Boudica and The Butcher novel is the attempt on The Butcher’s life by the assassin Mata. I hadn’t worked out the scene as I expected that it would be hard for her to get to him as he is surrounded…
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Continue reading →: Research: Consistent Character Images
One goal I have is to be able to AI generate consistent character images. Looking for a place to start, I asked Copilot. Me: Which image creation AI is best at generating multiple consistent images of a fictional character with a recognizable consistency for the character? Copilot: For generating multiple…
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Continue reading →: Rejected Short KingI had an idea for a “short” story. A guy is in lockup for B&E. He is a short king who is sick and tired of getting rejected by women for dates. He gets revenge on his unsatisfying life by breaking into a rejecting woman’s place. Instead of robbing her,…
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Continue reading →: Research: POV Conversion ToolsWhen I drafted my stories, I wrote them in a mix of first and third person. During editing this requires conversion to third person tense. Looking for a way to automate this process I asked Copilot for hints. Me: are there any tools to automatically convert point of view from…
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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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