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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 ButcherIn 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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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 Drafting
I 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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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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