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Continue reading →: Editing Cyn’s TrapIt 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.…
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Continue reading →: Origin StoriesI have so many drafts that it was hard to find specific stories, so I organized them into folder by books and genres. Additionally, I created a spreadsheet listing all my drafts with key metadata, so I can search, sort, and filter the spreadsheet to find stories and link commonalities…
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Continue reading →: The Merc and The MurdererIn finishing a draft fantasy short story, I was surprisingly as I had not written much in this genre; maybe 2% of my stories. In this story a mercenary is tasked with finding out the motivation of a notorious murderer. Why not simply a bounty to kill or capture the…
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Continue reading →: A Wife’s Guide to DivorceRecently, I found that I had lost a bunch of stories as I organize my drafts. Very terrifying for me. Fortunately, I found all, but one. Below is the beginning of a lost story that I recovered. Its working title is “A Wife’s Guide to Divorce.” As a draft, it…
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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.…
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.
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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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