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Continue reading →: Tool: World AnvilI have been playing with World Anvil to see if I want to use it as a tool to integrate and promote my now 347 drafted short stories into a shared story universe. The description of my story world: The Selfish Earth is the setting for a collection of sometimes…
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Continue reading →: Imagining MauvielleThe premise of one of those Chad blind dating stories was that his date was an alphabet people activist, more specifically she was pansexual. I wanted to give her an uncommon name which would give representation to those thinking outside the norm. I ended up naming her Mauvielle as a…
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Continue reading →: Naming Princess VerucaOne of my early drafted stories was of the forced bride variety. A princess was being forced to marry one of her father’s generals. She was not happy as she was in love with the prince from a nearby kingdom. The story is a fairy tale horror with a twist.…
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Continue reading →: When Britney Met ZekeBelow is some raw draft dialogue from my short story with a working title, “Lost woman – Zeke and Britney.” City girl Britney was abandoned in the woods by her ‘friends.’ After getting lost, she encounters Zeke. The story dramatizes the disconnect and biased hostility between a city girl lost…
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Continue reading →: Dreaming of StoriesSince I started writing short stories, I often wake up from a dream that I know was an unknown short story that I was playing with in my mind. I have a sense of aspects from the dreamed story but not the details. Last night’s dream: a detective and criminal…
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Continue reading →: Boko Haram and The ButcherIn the war horrors that I include in Boudica and The Butcher, I try to include the historical precedent during editing. One of the key horrors committed by the Union forces in my novel is the enslavement of female rebels, which is how Boudica becomes The Butcher’s slave. The counter…
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Continue reading →: Robbing ChadThe rough draft for the 1st chapter in my novel The Misadventures of Chad Seeking a Wife started as a separate teaser short story. For variety, I like having some stories where Chad is outside the setting of the restaurant where he meets his blind dates. This story occurs right…
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Continue reading →: Imagining AishaIn Geronimo’s Spirits, one of the novels I am drafting, the lead character Chappo seeks revenge for his brother Tak’s fentanyl overdose death. His pursuit of the responsible Mexican cartel leads to a 21st century Apache-Mexican War. In an effort to track down a lead to a cartel lawyer, Chappo…
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Continue reading →: Research on Concussions
In Chapter 4 “The Monster” in my draft for Boudica and The Butcher, Gideon returns injured from the battle at the mill. While Boudica is useless in helping him, she does summon help. Asclepia, the medic from Chapter 1 “Harvest of Blood” comes to assess his wounds. I knew that…
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Continue reading →: State of Nature StoriesOne setting I have reused in several drafted short stories is a modern man and woman alone in a state of nature. It is my hat tip to the thought experiment of the contract theorists about the origin of government. In my stories, it becomes an exploration of: Who is…
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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