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Continue reading →: Diversity in Story TellingRecently, I listened to Romanian Vee contrasting contemporary woke “representation” vs the rest of the world in the context of a race swap in a recent staging of “Romeo & Juliet” with Tom Holland and Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers. He caused me to think how I might race swap characters to adapt…
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Continue reading →: The Cyn Trilogy – Cyn VictoriousI had trouble falling asleep because I was thinking about an undrafted Cyn story. In “Cyn’s Obsession,” she was humorously introduced as a neurotic fingernail biter who accidentally shoots Brad, the actor she kidnapped. At the end when she is in the psych ward, she worries that Brad won’t forgive…
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Continue reading →: Beginning of Cyn’s TrapHere a bit of the beginning of “Cyn’s Trap” after its first edit pass of the draft. Not raw, but not polished either with two more edit passes as part of the planned process. * Snip below *Vic wakes up handcuffed to the bed again, but this time he does…
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Continue reading →: Editing Cyn’s Trap
It took me a while to edit my second Cyn story, in part because it was 8x longer than the first; however, it also deals with ideas that repeat in my other stories, so I want to get it right. This story is heavy on the relationship between openness and…
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Continue reading →: Writing Characters With Different PersonalitiesI have the bad habit of writing female characters in one way: competent, logical, and intelligent. Novelist Abby Emmons recommends using Myers-Briggs personality typing (MBTI) to model coherent yet diverse characters. I have not tried using MBTI yet, but agree that it could be a valuable tool for developing a…
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Continue reading →: Self-esteem Vs NarcissismRecently, I was surprised to hear about single men in their 30s saying that available single women are narcissists. Previously I have heard many single women make that charge against single men, so she was projecting? Alternatively, not in the clinical sense, maybe both are right about the other in…
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Continue reading →: Daughter from the FutureDrafted an initial scenario for an experimental story with the premise “Daughter from Future.” This scenario is mostly inspired by the stories of the 560+ men comedian Terrance Popp saved from self-deletion and those he could not save. The scenario’s opening:The liquid courage burns as it goes down your throat.…
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Continue reading →: Origin StoriesI have so many drafts that it was hard to find specific stories, so I organized them into folder by books and genres. Additionally, I created a spreadsheet listing all my drafts with key metadata, so I can search, sort, and filter the spreadsheet to find stories and link commonalities…
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Continue reading →: The Merc and The MurdererIn finishing a draft fantasy short story, I was surprisingly as I had not written much in this genre; maybe 2% of my stories. In this story a mercenary is tasked with finding out the motivation of a notorious murderer. Why not simply a bounty to kill or capture the…
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Continue reading →: A Wife’s Guide to DivorceRecently, I found that I had lost a bunch of stories as I organize my drafts. Very terrifying for me. Fortunately, I found all, but one. Below is the beginning of a lost story that I recovered. Its working title is “A Wife’s Guide to Divorce.” As a draft, it…
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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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