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Continue reading →: Pilgerruh StarvedWhile editing the teaser short stories for the Boudica and The Beast story world, I found that the dialogue between a rebel sergeant and a smuggler to be the most horrific as it was the one that was hopeless. The sergeant offered five diamonds looted from graves for the promise…
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Continue reading →: Research: Shinto MarriageIn setting some of my draft short stories in Japan, I rely on Copilot for information to get some of the immersive detail to my story and validate my ideas. Question: In Shinto, for a marriage to be valid, may the couple agree privately between themselves that they are married…
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Continue reading →: A Blood Thirsty Killer who Drowns Puppies for FunBelow is a snip from a different Boudica and The Butcher teaser short story. These teasers are planned to be an ad-like introduction to the story setting within the Second American Civil War. Formatted but still raw and laconic. ***** Colt ran for cover after his raider team got ambushed…
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Continue reading →: She’s Got a KnifeLet me share a snip from one of the teaser short stories set in a future Second American Civil War of my in progress Boudica and The Butcher novel. As a draft, the snip is raw and laconic. ** Aaron was in an abandoned building near a rebel garrison. Suddenly…
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Continue reading →: Apache DoveSometimes I just gotta hope that Copilot AI is not feeding me BS as its points work out so well. When I was formatting my “Chief and Little Dove” draft teaser short story for the Boudica and the Beast novel, I decided to make Chief (a Union army sniper and…
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Continue reading →: Research: Traditional Japanese Beliefs About Deceased Unborn
I have a draft short story with the working title “Byoukondere Patient.” My short description of the story is “Dr Shohei Akamatsu agrees to marry his terminal patient Suzu, so she will not be neglected in the afterlife.” The story did not start with that direction in mind. Instead, a…
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Continue reading →: The Divided KingdomI keep dreaming about stories only to wake in the middle of the night without being able to fall asleep. Am I the only one? I am noting the core idea of one dream to hopefully get it out of mind for much later. Ideas for character names? For diversity…
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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…
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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