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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…
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Continue reading →: Viking Raid on CollegeI was flashing back on an old never drafted story idea that was keeping me awake. I hope that writing it down will get it out of my head for now. The setting is a small coastal New England college in current year. Call it Maine because Stephen King. A…
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Continue reading →: Being Vulnerable as an AuthorI left the following comment on a Doomcock vid mocking another failure in woke movies and TV: “Fictional stories require trust as one invites adults to play pretend and suspend disbelief. Contemporary fictional brands have broken trust from their audience by lacking integrity. Instead of inviting audiences into sharing a…
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Continue reading →: The Shanghaied SamaritanNoticed that the same women who support gun control & policies to release violent criminals on the street also expect men to protect her when the consequences of her choices appear? I didn’t intend to but drafted a short story about it; working title, “The Shanghaied Samaritan.” A woman approaches…
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Continue reading →: Restarting Drafting Boudica and The ButcherAfter a break, I resumed drafting _Boudica and The Butcher_, 2nd American Civil War, story; 265 new draft pages. I took a break because of the Israeli invasion of Gaza as the siege and decimation in fiction could have been too parallel to reality. In retrospect, The Butcher’s fictional old-school…
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Continue reading →: Wrappping up the Akiko StorySometimes I have large incomplete draft stories that I drop and then come back to later. Often that incomplete story is essentially done so I just need to wrap it by being willing to say goodbye to the characters. Other times the incomplete story is stuck without a clear path…
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Continue reading →: New Western Adventure SeriesI had an idea for a period western adventure story for boys as there aren’t enough westerns today. As a genre, westerns are primed to stories focused on morality with a gritty realism. Civil war vet turned Rocky Mountain trapper comes into town in the spring to sell his fur…
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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