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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 DoubtTwo 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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Continue reading →: A 007 BrainstormDang it. I got distracted by playing with Grok when we accidentally came up with a treatment for a new Bond movie. I was speculating as a creative writing exercise on various ways money from USAID could have been untraceably funneled back into Dem organizations and Antifa using historical examples.…
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Continue reading →: Chad Says No to SexAfter forcing myself to not draft new stories so I could edit, I allowed myself to draft one just to make sure that I still could. I revisited Chad from The Misadventures of Chad Seeking a Wife in a prequel teaser story. He goes into a bar after work on…
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Continue reading →: Boudica’s FeintI finished formatting Chapter 32 of Boudica and The Butcher, which I gave the working title of “The Feint” because of the deception in the chapter. Initially, I was going to call it “No Quarter” after the flag gifted by Miles and Ella to the general. Gideon decides that as…
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Continue reading →: Research: Dullahan III – Loyalty TestsI have a short story idea in inventory about a young Irish lieutenant who met a Dullahan on the road on his way to port to embark for the Seven Year War. For the same character, I have an idea for a longer story about him becoming an American farmer…
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Continue reading →: The FeintFormatting Ch 32 “The Feint” of Boudica and The Butcher, I read unveiling of The Butcher’s No Quarter Flag. Good bones in that draft. After the “Squared Away” chapter, Boudica was reconciled to focusing on her mission to save Gideon from the effects of his choices in the war on…
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Continue reading →: Research: Dullahan III – Niece’s Conspiracy
I have a short story idea in inventory about a young Irish lieutenant who met a Dullahan on the road on his way to port to embark for the Seven Year War. For the same character, I have an idea for a longer story about him becoming an American farmer…
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Continue reading →: The Ebb and FlowIn chapter 30 “The Ebb and Flow” of Boudica and The Butcher, Boudica is swinging like a pendulum between the ecstasy of success and despair of failure because her mission is hard. More focus on Boudica’s state of mind, instead of war strategy and atrocities, as the war keeps drawing…
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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.
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