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Continue reading →: Bang Bang is FunOne of the aspects that I love about my character Bang Bang is that he is so innocently crude and borish. Having grown from orphaned war refugee to a mascot of a mercenary company to a veteran, he is full of blunt humor and surprising moments of reality centered wisdom.…
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Continue reading →: Research: Limited Civil War PoliciesIn Boudica and The Butcher, Gen. Gideon Sheridan’s no-quarter policy is out of step with four years of Union politicians attempting to limit the lethality of the civil war. Besides asking Copilot questions, sometimes as part of brainstorming I describe aspects of the story to get feedback. Sometimes these ideas…
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Continue reading →: Research: Combat Medic Treatment PrioritiesWhen editing “Harvest of Blood” as Chapter 1 in Boudica and The Butcher, I relied on Copilot for factual information about treatment of Boudica’s head injury. Prompt: Question about a combat medic treating a head wound: victim unconscious, bleeding scalp laceration, contusion, no exposed brain matter. Does the medic give…
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Continue reading →: Death in a MarriageRecently, I was formatted my “Meggy” draft. The story begins with a marital spat that had been ongoing for weeks. Meggy was avoiding her husband Sean, who sat in the living room nursing a headache. She confronted him when he went to the kitchen to get water. Slowly he reveals…
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Continue reading →: Research: Officer Age and Brevet PromotionsI used Copilot to help me brainstorm ideas around The Butcher’s age and rank. Prompt: What was the typical age of a one-star general during WW1? Copilot: During World War I, the typical age of a one-star general (Brigadier General) varied, but they were generally in their late 40s to…
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Continue reading →: Resist and Bite
For my drafting of Boudica and The Butcher, I have planned that early in the siege of Pilgerruh (aka Cleveland) that The Butcher’s army will experience a setback when Cleaver’s rebel army counterattacks in force against the Union base holding the CSX rail lines parallel to I-90 east of the…
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Continue reading →: Cyrus and The Butcher
In my draft of Boudica and The Butcher, Cyrus as XO is The Butcher’s right hand man in the battalion. They are close friends going back to their time as professors at a small fictional Pennsylvania college before the war. Despite Cyrus working to implement The Butcher’s plan to end…
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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 Sacrifice
I 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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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.
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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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