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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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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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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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