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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 UnbornI 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. Inspired by Ditko’s “The Hawk &…
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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…
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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