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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…
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Continue reading →: Imagining AishaIn Geronimo’s Spirits, one of the novels I am drafting, the lead character Chappo seeks revenge for his brother Tak’s fentanyl overdose death. His pursuit of the responsible Mexican cartel leads to a 21st century Apache-Mexican War. In an effort to track down a lead to a cartel lawyer, Chappo…
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Continue reading →: Research on Concussions
In Chapter 4 “The Monster” in my draft for Boudica and The Butcher, Gideon returns injured from the battle at the mill. While Boudica is useless in helping him, she does summon help. Asclepia, the medic from Chapter 1 “Harvest of Blood” comes to assess his wounds. I knew that…
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Continue reading →: State of Nature StoriesOne setting I have reused in several drafted short stories is a modern man and woman alone in a state of nature. It is my hat tip to the thought experiment of the contract theorists about the origin of government. In my stories, it becomes an exploration of: Who is…
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Continue reading →: Imagining MataOne of the pivotal characters in my draft novel Boudica and The Butcher is Mata. She is an assassin unexpectedly trapped in Pilgerruh by The Butcher’s siege of the city. Cleaver, the city’s rebel leader, had her captured. He blackmailed/hired her to kill The Butcher. Stuck for a name I…
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Continue reading →: Origins of Sy’s Name in “Divine Gift”When doing initial drafts, I usually don’t even name the main characters. Why? I don’t know who they are yet. As a placeholder, I may give a temporary name from a listing of popular baby names. By the time, I start editing I get serious about naming characters as I…
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Continue reading →: Mya AssassinBelow is the raw beginning of dialogue between a man and Death for my short story with a working name “Mya Assassin.” The raw draft lacks narrative, description, & editing. During drafting, I focus on dialogue, some action, and character interaction. I was inspired by a couple YouTube videos by…
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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