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Continue reading →: Make Parlors Great AgainAs a kid, I enjoyed visiting the old Iowa farmhouse where my great grandparents lived. Not modern as it had an outhouse, wood burning stove for cooking, a handpump for well water in the kitchen. A practical and functional home. It also had a parlor with elegant furnishing in stark…
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Continue reading →: Cosmetic HauntingSandman had an interesting news bit about women getting fat from dead people injected into their butts as cosmetic surgery. He joked that posterior would be haunted. That might make for an interesting story premise for a horror story. A woman indulges in cosmetic surgery; some bits sourced from the…
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Continue reading →: Funding AdoptionsNew story idea involving the High Patriarchy Council. Stories involving the HPC exist in my Mansplaining genre and are intended as humorous and naughty but illustrating a point. The HPC is a satirical device on the idea that a conspiracy between men exist to exclude women from important decision making.…
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Continue reading →: Scaling the MessageI started a conversation with Copilot on a question regarding how reliable paternity testing changed young men’s perspective regarding relationships, including the cultural impact of Maury Povich saying “You are NOT the father.” This led into discussing the contemporary collapse of dating, marriage and birth rates. I observed “The trillion…
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Continue reading →: Fault in DivorceA new story idea featuring a return of the High Patriarchy Council. They are a body of men who meet secretly without women to solve societal problems created by women. (Offensive? It is called humor.) The issue at hand was a deliberation over the high cost of no-fault divorce. They…
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Continue reading →: His New MaidNew story idea. It started with questions about why there aren’t domestic servants today contrasted with the past. Given feminist complaints about “emotional labor” and a lack of childcare options for working mothers it seems like there is a unmet demand. Further, the feminist idea of women’s unpaid labor in…
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Continue reading →: Modern Villains are Pitiful and ImpotentAuthor Hilary Layne had a video about the problem with evil in contemporary fiction in that evil isn’t expressed but softened and excused on the theme of evil doesn’t really exist. Personally, I haven’t written a character who is evil. I tried but it never works out. Certainly I have…
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Continue reading →: Unrealist Male CharactersIn a recent video, author Abbie Emmons’ criticized contemporary romance stories for male characters who lack an arc and a significant flaw, so are just flat and generic fantasy guy. While I don’t think I do flat and generic, I am guilty of making most of the guys as stable…
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Continue reading →: Bring Back Real WomenA recent video posted by author Hilary Layne well represents what I have been trying to do with the female characters in my draft stories. Briefly that female characters should be believable women instead of acting as if they were men. While my stories have included women who are killers…
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Continue reading →: Story ArtifactsAs one does, I was having a discussion with Copilot contrasting early 80s Playmates with contemporary commodification online. The end of that thread… ** Prompt ** Okay, before you assume that I have gone full gooner, this discussion does have a take away. Fantasy fiction is known for its iconic…
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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