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Continue reading →: Famine as a War TacticFamine is a key tactic within The Butcher’s strategy to end the Second American Civil War in my drafting novel Boudica and The Butcher. Worse, it is his intent to reduce the besieged rebel army to cannibalism in Pilgerruh in order to terrorize the other rebel cities into surrender. I…
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Continue reading →: Writing About What You Don’t KnowI received positive feedback on my “Nature’s Foundling” edited story from my sympathetic reader, but she is only 8. 🙂 Yet that makes her the target market. As I don’t speak Japanese and have never been to Japan, what qualifications do I have to write a series of stories set…
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Continue reading →: Updating Routine Breakup DraftWorked on edit to my “Routine Breakup” draft. The spartan dialogue in the draft began: Colt: Hey why do you look funny?Willow: (giggles) N…no reason.Colt: Are you sure because you are looking at me strangely?Willow: (gulps) Yeah I’m fine, don’t worry about that.Colt: What’s the gag? Do I have something…
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Continue reading →: Updated Nature’s Foundling DraftDoing first edit on the following drafted start grew that snip to more than 1300 words: “She has no name, but the villagers call her Suteko. Lord Akamatsu observed hunters return with an unknown girl living deep in the woods who they had accidentally captured. The villagers are very scared…
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Continue reading →: Musing of a BurakuminI had a random thought for the undrafted Kedakai justice short story…she asks Haruki why the Burakumin are considered unclean and lowly. His reply should be something to the effect of, “They say that it is because we work in death and blood. Butchering animals for meat, creating leather, preparing…
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Continue reading →: Planning Expanded Kedakai StoryMade plans for the continuing story after the introductory “Nature’s Foundling,” the Kedakai series of stories will have 3 types of stories: virtue tales, Lord Akamatsu’s conflict with his regent uncle, and the climactic conflict between Kedakai & Lord Akamatsu about her future, aka who she will marry. The virtue…
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Continue reading →: Editing Nature’s FoundlingI beat myself up a little thinking I was afraid to work on editing my “Nature’s Foundling” draft. Then my sympathetic reader read the raw draft, which she liked; she observed that I had all that stuff at the end that I still needed to integrate into the story. That…
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Continue reading →: Quent Cordair’s Screenplay “Mujahid” Available Free on Kindle for Limited TimeUpdate 1/3/2025, Last night author, painter, and gallery owner announced that the Kindle version of his screenplay “Mujahid” would be available for free on 1/3/2025 & 01/04/2025. On The Objective Standard , Daniel Wahl described it as follows: “A screenplay jihadists will hate and civilized people will love… Set in…
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Continue reading →: Modern OdysseusI got an idea for a novel premise. In a modern adaptation of The Odyssey, instead of exploring Hellenic hospitality duty, it examines the alternative of what would have happened to Telemachus without Mentor. Raised by a single mom, without a masculine influence, Telemachus becomes a neet who failed to…
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Continue reading →: Modern Sisyphus
Sometimes I come across a foreign slang word that has me scratching my head. Recently this occurred with ‘neet’ which was being used as a pejorative. Instead of Googling, I asked Copilot for an explanation. Its response: A “NEET” is an acronym that stands for “Not in Education, Employment, or…
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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