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Continue reading →: Editing StepsWhile my first-year writing was for story drafting, since I have focused on editing. Early on I was frustrated that editing takes so long. To pivot, I broke my first pass edit stage by splitting off two pre-editing steps to clean up my drafts, instead of trying to do three…
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Continue reading →: Research: Treating Head Injury in FieldPrompt: In field medicine, how would the medic administer an antibiotic to an unconscious patient? Copilot: In field medicine, administering antibiotics to an unconscious patient typically involves intravenous (IV) or intramuscular (IM) routes, as these methods do not require the patient to be conscious or able to swallow. These methods…
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Continue reading →: Tak, Chappo, and The ButcherTak (aka Chief), as a scout who can bring intelligence to The Butcher from Pilgerruh and identify resources that can be foraged, is becoming a reoccurring presence in my draft of Boudica and The Butcher. At the same time, Tak is Chappo’s nephew from my draft novel _Geronimo’s Spirits_. This…
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Continue reading →: Research: Precarious Women’s RightsPrompt: Another aspect of the female slavery in the Boudica and The Beast story is to explore the precarious nature of equal rights as a luxury of modern civilization. While as Marxists, today’s feminists push to overthrow the current system, they ignore the degraded condition of women historically in communist…
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Continue reading →: The Crazy ExI was formatting one of my draft short stories when I inadvertently added to my reading list. The working title is “The Crazy Ex.” Norah is stalking her ex boyfriend. She is deeply conflicted about whether she wants to marry him or hurt him. In the middle of the story,…
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Continue reading →: Research: Boudica and The Butcher as a Love StoryPrompt: Ultimately this story is about love. The Butcher cannot live without his wife, so he becomes death. He believes that more people will live if he destroys the population of Cleveland as the war will end sooner. He doesn’t expect to survive the war, so he expects to die…
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Continue reading →: Imagining CyrusIt was much easier to get a sample image out of AI for Cyrus, head of operations for The Butcher’s general staff. Cyrus was a defector from Iran’s chemical weapons program who went on to become a chemistry professor at a small fictional college in Pennsylvania. At the start of…
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Continue reading →: Research: The Butcher’s War PlansPrompt: Denied permission to target a rebel city with a nuke. The Butcher besieges Cleveland to employ the oldest weapons of mass destruction, famine and disease. He seeks to emulate Tamerlane by completely destroying the population of a city so no rebel city would dare to resist his army but…
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Continue reading →: Modern Maiden, Mother, and CroneRecently, I was formatting my draft of a story with a working title “Yottadere Roommate.” At the end of the drafting, I had the following hint note for editing: “Asher is a symbol for life. So, the story dramatizes a female alcohol abuser and her relationship with life. Thus, it…
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Continue reading →: Research: The Butcher’s SlavesOne of the things about The Butcher in Boudica and The Butcher is that he had been a normal guy who found himself living in a world turning into a horror. At the beginning of the story, to the reader he seems a manifestation of the horror. As the story…
Hello,
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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