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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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Continue reading →: Lady WesternAs sure evidence that my sleeping schedule has been jacked, recently drafted 7 new stories. One is a period western. For this new story, it gender bends a traditional dynamic. Female outlaw with her stolen gold invades the isolated cabin of a widower as she seeks to hide out from…
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Continue reading →: Boys Will Be BoysI had a dream the other day in which 2 friends were fighting, which escalated to knives and blood drawn. I jumped between them to diffuse the situation. Just as I was succeeding, a bystander shot the more aggressive friend in the head in defense of the other friend. Why…
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Continue reading →: The Boys from BrazilRecently, I watched “The Boys from Brazil” (1978) starring Gregory Peck, Lawrence Olivier, & James Mason. Given Hollywood’s practice of making sequels, one should be made for this story. In the original, Mengele created 94 clones of Hitler. In order to mimic life experience, Mengele conspires to murder the clones’…
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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