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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…
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Continue reading →: Trilogy: Founder, Partner, MatriarchI started imagining my female startup founder story as a movie because it is the girl boss story Hollywood wants to produce but can’t pull off. This led to the question of whether I should add a romantic subplot because that expands the market for the story. Deciding there wasn’t…
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Continue reading →: Trash Can PunchSo one fun thing that I am trying to play with while editing my drafts is including fictional products. It started with a running joke about male characters wearing purple boxer shorts with yellow dragon designs so if he were ever in a car accident the nurses would laugh at…
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Continue reading →: Alcoholic SmoothiesChallenge accepted! Create a plausible story about a female entrepreneur. This started as a thought experiment in converting industrial grain alcohol into a new consumer product that would create a new profitable market niche. Again, another winning the lottery fantasy thought experiment. Okay. So, is this a fictional story? A…
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Continue reading →: The Accidental EntrepreneurI have a new story idea that is a business-oriented story. It started as a personal lottery fantasy about being worthy of the money from an unearned windfall rooted in turning a housing expense into an investment not built on asset bubbles. I haven’t written business stories because it is…
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Continue reading →: A.W.F.U.L. Mommieshoe_math had an interesting observation about A.W.F.U.L. women in that since they don’t have a baby they seek out something to treat like a baby as an unconscious drive. This behavior shows up in how they speak to others with her in the role of mommy and the other (usually…
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Continue reading →: Cartel GirlfriendAn argument with Grok about whether El Mencho’s girlfriend was a thot led to something that I might incorporate into Chappo’s story about a future Apache-Mexican war rooted in Chappo’s revenge against the cartel distributing the fentanyl that killed Chappo’s brother Tak (the father of Tak aka “Chief” in my…
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Continue reading →: The Illiad & CheatersIs it unfair to say that the foundation stone of Western literature is a story *dramatizing the consequences* of a wife abandoning her husband to run off with her lover? I am considering The Illiad by Homer, which recounted a Trojan War attributed to Helen running off with Paris following…
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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