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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’…
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Continue reading →: The Seeds of Her FutureI try to make each of my draft stories different from other authors with something unexpected or original. In one story, a young woman had a dream about having a family in her future, but when she woke she didn’t have the reality of that dream; this made her distraught.…
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Continue reading →: Two Comics are Better than OneThe first pass edit of my “Routine Breakup” short story draft included my first major restructuring of a drafted story. It was written as a dialogue, but I have been rewriting it as a standup routine. My post draft notes recommended editing it into a standup script. In editing, I…
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Continue reading →: Naming Therapist CharactersIn drafting storied, I originally had a reoccurring archetypical character in my draft short stories named Dr. Sydney Friedman (after the shrink in M*A*S*H as initially my character was humorous and compassionate). Whenever I needed to add a generic therapist to a story, I would reuse Dr. Friedman, who was…
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Continue reading →: The SpinsterI found an old outline for a not yet drafted story. I typed this out years ago when moments of mental clarity were brief, unexpected, and not sustained. Based in the contemporary practice of swapping character attributes in the name of diversity without consideration for how those changes impact the…
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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