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Continue reading →: Creating a Story UniverseI have a multitab spreadsheet to keep track of my story drafts. While it started as a tool to reconcile completeness & track progress across hundreds of drafts, it has also become a tool for integration between stories for managing a story universe, which I currently reference as ‘The Selfish…
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Continue reading →: Griselda’s ContraditionsI was surprised by the contradictory mess of a character in one of my story drafts matching so closely TikToks posted by single women then lampooned by red pilled comedic commentators on YT. The rough story draft began: An online matchmaking service called LoveMatchCafé automatically paired Griselda and Jerry together.…
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Continue reading →: Temptation in ApathyWorked on formatting my draft for a short story “Homeless Girl,” which featured two characters I had referenced as Spirit and Girl. Originally, it was a horror story about a strange man picking up a homeless 12-year-old girl off the street. His motive and her fate were left disturbingly uncertain.…
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Continue reading →: Clown Girls Have Big ShoesWhile doing some formatting of my “Clown Girl” draft short story, I almost did a spit take as I read, “Clownie leaned forward as she took off her oversized shoes, throwing them to the side.” The shoe reference was a humorous parallel to the shoes of thots going to da…
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Continue reading →: The Horror in HumorWhile working on editing one of my humor stories, I altered it into a horror story. After drafting, it was a humor about mistaken identity. What type of humor? Bawdy? Ribald? Sophomoric? Juvenile? Yes. Later I realized that it shared an element with a Japanese story which I read about…
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Continue reading →: Princess WartLast year, I started editing one of my early story drafts, but stopped after had edited a page and a half. I solicited feedback from a sympathetic reader on that small chunk. Despite the feedback being valuable, I did permit it to crush my confidence a little until after I…
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Continue reading →: Breaking Down Long StoriesWhen drafting, I usually create a massively long story that I later have to break up. With Boudica and The Butcher most of the draft was created in two large chucks. When I broke the first chunk up, it became 16 chapters plus the beginning of another. Creating digestible units…
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Continue reading →: Facing Real TaboosMy Boudica and The Butcher draft anti-war novel includes a taboo element: slavery. In this fictional Second American Civil War, after the rebels refuse an amnesty offer, a law is passed making the criminal punishment for rebellion either death or slavery; under the 13th Amendment, involuntary servitude is permissible as…
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Continue reading →: Summarizing Harvest of BloodHarvest of Blood, the first chapter in my draft novel Boudica and The Butcher, had a few goals including establish the story world (a Second American Civil War), create both dislike & sympathy in the reader for The Butcher, and introduce the heroine Boudica as sympathetic for the reader. The…
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Continue reading →: Reviewing Progress on Boudica and The BeastI had Word read me the first 17 drafted chapters (183 pages) of my incomplete Boudica and The Beast story. It took a long time to read, so that originally intended short story is demonstrating itself a novel in the making, especially as it might be only half drafted. The…
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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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