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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.…
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Continue reading →: When Britney Met ZekeBelow is some raw draft dialogue from my short story with a working title, “Lost woman – Zeke and Britney.” City girl Britney was abandoned in the woods by her ‘friends.’ After getting lost, she encounters Zeke. The story dramatizes the disconnect and biased hostility between a city girl lost…
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Continue reading →: Dreaming of StoriesSince I started writing short stories, I often wake up from a dream that I know was an unknown short story that I was playing with in my mind. I have a sense of aspects from the dreamed story but not the details. Last night’s dream: a detective and criminal…
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Continue reading →: Boko Haram and The ButcherIn the war horrors that I include in Boudica and The Butcher, I try to include the historical precedent during editing. One of the key horrors committed by the Union forces in my novel is the enslavement of female rebels, which is how Boudica becomes The Butcher’s slave. The counter…
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Continue reading →: Robbing ChadThe rough draft for the 1st chapter in my novel The Misadventures of Chad Seeking a Wife started as a separate teaser short story. For variety, I like having some stories where Chad is outside the setting of the restaurant where he meets his blind dates. This story occurs right…
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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