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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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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…
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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