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Continue reading →: Naming an AndroidI had a thought waking up from a dream that I didn’t want to forget. The female prison security guard android in one of my draft stories should be renamed RU-7053 as in “Are you love?’ 7 is upside down backwards L. 0 obviously for O. 5 cuz of roman…
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Continue reading →: Research: Character Names in “Modern Gorgon”One of my draft short stories has a working title of “Modern Gorgon.” My short description of the story is “Armed only with his words in defense, Percy finds himself caged by the criminal mastermind Madyson.” I used Copilot to help me come up with a name for the Medusa-like…
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Continue reading →: Dam Busting as a WMDI had a fiction story idea: Taiwanese military creates a contingency plan to breach the Three Gorges Dam should China invade Taiwan. Dam breaches were used as a weapon of war in the Chinese warfare. Further in the Russian-Ukraine war someone breached the Kakhovka dam. Such a breach could turn…
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Continue reading →: Story VarietyLast year, I split up my first pass edit process into separate technical and creative substeps, which has helped me to start editing all my entire draft backlog. As part of that, I created a brief summary for each story in editing. Lots of variety as I had spent a…
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Continue reading →: Research: Egyptian Word for SirIn one of Chappo’s early stories, he meets with Aisha, an illegal alien from Egypt in a border shanty town. While she has been reduced to sex slavery by the cartel, Chappo helps her escape the cartel after she gave him information for him to pursue his revenge against the…
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Continue reading →: Lillith Being A DemonI formatted my draft story about the blind date between Chad and Lilith. Reading it, after all this time since drafting it, surprised me. Snip from early in the story below. Good times. *** The door closed with a click, and he saw her, for the first time, his date.…
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Continue reading →: Forgiving Actions vs. OpinionsI enjoy some of the lines in my drafted story too much as it could be hard for me to edit them out if necessary. Fortunately, out-of-character post-drafting notes are simply editing guidance. As an example, after an infidelity story, I observed: “I liked how in the story it was…
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Continue reading →: Princess TreatmentFormatting my “Princess Treatment” draft story, I was reminded of how on occasion I wrote similar stories with a key variant characteristic to create different stories with distinct characters. This recent was similar to the first pass edited “The Princess’ Choice.” In both a princess is being forced into an…
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Continue reading →: Relationship InversionI formatted my draft story “Relationship Inversion,” which begins with the premise that Will and Ellie are in a casual situationship as the overgrown adolescents call it today. After the recreational activities complete, Ellie announces that Will should go home. He surprises her by telling her this is their last…
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Continue reading →: Alignment CheckWhen beginning to format my drafted story featuring Bang Bang, an unintelligent cunning half-orc warrior and veteran mercenary, I found it incomplete. Exporting it again, my previous 4k word copy corrected to a more robust 10k+ words. Unlike other fantasy stories, it isn’t a coming-of-age story or about an epic…
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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.
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