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Continue reading →: Imagining MataOne of the pivotal characters in my draft novel Boudica and The Butcher is Mata. She is an assassin unexpectedly trapped in Pilgerruh by The Butcher’s siege of the city. Cleaver, the city’s rebel leader, had her captured. He blackmailed/hired her to kill The Butcher. Stuck for a name I…
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Continue reading →: Origins of Sy’s Name in “Divine Gift”When doing initial drafts, I usually don’t even name the main characters. Why? I don’t know who they are yet. As a placeholder, I may give a temporary name from a listing of popular baby names. By the time, I start editing I get serious about naming characters as I…
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Continue reading →: Mya AssassinBelow is the raw beginning of dialogue between a man and Death for my short story with a working name “Mya Assassin.” The raw draft lacks narrative, description, & editing. During drafting, I focus on dialogue, some action, and character interaction. I was inspired by a couple YouTube videos by…
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Continue reading →: Imagining TessaWhen drafting Boudica and The Butcher, I took a break to create a series of short stories set in the same period and location. The idea behind these 20 short stories was to focus on some world building outside the novel; what does the world of a future Second America…
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Continue reading →: Researching Combat Ear ProtectionI was watching a video of The AK Guy, as one does, when it dawned on me that the characters in Boudica and The Butcher should probably have some ear protection in combat situations. For example, in the draft of Chapter 1 “Harvest of Blood,” I should add during the…
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Continue reading →: Voices in His HeadI have a drafted short story that begins with a schizophrenic driven from his college classroom by the voices in his head. He escapes back to his apartment where he drinks Jack until the voices in his head are drunk, which enables him to sleep. In his dream, he meets…
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Continue reading →: Imagining AsclepiaIf you have read my draft chapter “Harvest of Blood” then you have met Asclepia without knowing her name. Initially her story was drafted as a standalone story in the same future Second American Civil War setting as Boudica and The Butcher, but I liked her so much that I…
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Continue reading →: Image Generating Tools for CharactersUsed Copilot to research potential tools to render images of characters for my stories. I will be added these tools to my further research task list. Question: Which image creation AI is best at generating multiple consistent images of a fictional character with a recognizable consistency for the character? For…
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Continue reading →: Male Kinesthetic Emotional CommunicationA reoccurring element in my short stories is that while experiencing his strongest emotions a man does not communicate verbally, but instead kinesthetically by touch and action. This is based upon the idea that there are three primary modes of communication: auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. Masculinizing hormone therapy for female…
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Continue reading →: Imagining VicOf my characters, one of my favorites is Cyn. She stars in three short stories: “Cyn’s Obsession,” “Cyn’s Trap,” and “Cyn Victorious.” Unfortunately for her, Cyn’s dreams of becoming an actress have fallen flat with no roles other than her disliked job as a studio tour guide. In her disappointment,…
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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