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Continue reading →: DINK BreakupI confess that I enjoy reading my drafted short stories as a prep for editing. Recently, I read my draft novella with the working title, “DINK Breakup.” DINK is the slang acronym for Dual-Income-No-Kids. Emily and Martin have been in a 20 year relationship beginning in high school. They live…
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Continue reading →: Trends in Female SuicideI did a little research on trends in female suicide. Contrary to the Ophelia narrative, women are most likely to self-delete between 45-54 years old. Further, divorced women are 3x more likely to commit suicide than married women. While men are 4x more likely to self delete than women, in…
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Continue reading →: Ladyhawke (1985)I recently rewatched the movie “Ladyhawke” (1985) on Tubi resulting in two takeaways. 1) The terrible soundtrack almost ruined the movie for me. Too much ‘do current thing’ instead of focusing on integrating the music and the scene to set the emotional tone. By the time the music improved, I…
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Continue reading →: Diversity in Story TellingRecently, I listened to Romanian Vee contrasting contemporary woke “representation” vs the rest of the world in the context of a race swap in a recent staging of “Romeo & Juliet” with Tom Holland and Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers. He caused me to think how I might race swap characters to adapt…
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Continue reading →: The Cyn Trilogy – Cyn VictoriousI had trouble falling asleep because I was thinking about an undrafted Cyn story. In “Cyn’s Obsession,” she was humorously introduced as a neurotic fingernail biter who accidentally shoots Brad, the actor she kidnapped. At the end when she is in the psych ward, she worries that Brad won’t forgive…
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Continue reading →: Beginning of Cyn’s TrapHere a bit of the beginning of “Cyn’s Trap” after its first edit pass of the draft. Not raw, but not polished either with two more edit passes as part of the planned process. * Snip below *Vic wakes up handcuffed to the bed again, but this time he does…
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Continue reading →: Editing Cyn’s Trap
It took me a while to edit my second Cyn story, in part because it was 8x longer than the first; however, it also deals with ideas that repeat in my other stories, so I want to get it right. This story is heavy on the relationship between openness and…
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Continue reading →: Writing Characters With Different PersonalitiesI have the bad habit of writing female characters in one way: competent, logical, and intelligent. Novelist Abby Emmons recommends using Myers-Briggs personality typing (MBTI) to model coherent yet diverse characters. I have not tried using MBTI yet, but agree that it could be a valuable tool for developing a…
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Continue reading →: Self-esteem Vs NarcissismRecently, I was surprised to hear about single men in their 30s saying that available single women are narcissists. Previously I have heard many single women make that charge against single men, so she was projecting? Alternatively, not in the clinical sense, maybe both are right about the other in…
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Continue reading →: Daughter from the FutureDrafted an initial scenario for an experimental story with the premise “Daughter from Future.” This scenario is mostly inspired by the stories of the 560+ men comedian Terrance Popp saved from self-deletion and those he could not save. The scenario’s opening:The liquid courage burns as it goes down your throat.…
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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