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Continue reading →: Dreaming vs BeingI had a new story idea. The initial kernel: a boy excels at sports instead of school but genetically he will never have the stature to continue his sports dominance because all his peers will outgrow him. The problem is how can his life be guided in a way that…
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Continue reading →: Trigger WarningsRecently between authors there was a discussion online about trigger warnings for books. While I disagree with the idea, I do have some sympathy for those impacted by troubling situations in fiction. Many years ago, I was in a class on post-war Japanese history. The professor included movie viewings as…
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Continue reading →: Hedonistic TragedyWhile talking to Grok about the Epstein case, as one does, a new story idea developed. Our discussion reframed or altered facts within the case to make the sex legal while still repugnant. Key takeaways: the women can be as young as 16 & occur within a permissive US state,…
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Continue reading →: Diabetics in a Civil War
In a civil war, vulnerable populations will be subjected to the state of nature without the protection of modernity and capitalism. Consider diabetics as an example. Due to territorial fracturing and economic retraction, type 1 diabetics will die from a lack of insulin not all at once but over time…
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Continue reading →: Artistly for Descriptive PlayI ran a test with Artistly AI related to character description. As a prompt, I gave The Hollies lyric “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress.” The prompt enhancer feature turned that into: “Create a captivating image of a tall, confident woman in her mid-30s, exuding a sense of effortless…
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Continue reading →: Cutting a Whole Chapter?After formatting Ch 3 “Good Touch” of Fixing Barbora, I was shocked that I thought that I might drop the whole chapter from the story. It isn’t that it is bad draft writing, but that the whole story might be better without it. The character development will be tighter, a…
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Continue reading →: Fixing Barbora
As I try to work through my inventory of raw drafts, I am started next with my largest partially formatted file to complete its formatting. The working title is “Fixing Barbora” weighing in at 100k+ words and 199 raw pages, so it is going to be around 16 chapters. Genre-wise…
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Continue reading →: My Editing StruggleI am at that awkward stage of editing where I have lost confidence in my ability to write. What is a paragraph again? How do I arrange dialogue? How do I describe stuff? I must clear my head by repeating my mantra, “Just tell a clear story as everything else…
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Continue reading →: Gut PunchTo cleanse my pallet, I finished formatting my shortest available draft in inventory at 5800 words. Very often when I read through a draft, it begins with me thinking this is an awful experiment so maybe it isn’t worth editing. Then I get to a point when I fall in…
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Continue reading →: Struggles with Doubt
Two phrases of famous last words common to men are “But she loves me” and “I can fix her.” Just as Chad in The Misadventures of Chad Seeking a Wife is based on the meme character, who I put into a story about him looking for a wife, my character…
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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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