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In all fairness, I don't seem to either. Care to go exploring? |
| A very good morning to all my wonderful friends, and I hope it finds you full of hope for the new year. I'm back from my customary Thursday hiatus and hopeful for a few things, but it finds me full of honesty as regards my WdC membership, and that's what I'm here to address. The first thing you will have noticed is the new cover. That is a photograph of the design on a jacket that doesn't fit me anymore, but the photograph does. The skull represents my love of the horror genre, and the gears inside and scattered around, my enjoyment of steampunk, the genre where I first achieved some minor recognition. This replaces the plaque I was awarded by "The WDC Angel Army"  for being named the WdC Angel of the Month for September. This was a great honor and I displayed it for three months, but it's time to stop resting on those laurels and look to the future.Second, I feel the need to fess up: I'm not here to participate in the same way that all of you are. It's been years since I've produced anything original, and it's long past time that I stop pretending that the "muse" is going to come back refreshed from her ten-year vacation. I'm familiar with WdC from previous memberships, and I came here because it seemed a stable site to store all the things I wrote years ago when I was active. That's what you see in my portfolio now. This includes the supposedly "new" work, "The Orphan Princess" . I had written the first few chapters of this when the muse quit without notice and moved on to greener pastures. I've been posting a scene per week, and working in the background to continue the story. Hopefully I'll have some new stuff to post when I run out of old stuff, but only time will tell.Finally, once I returned, I found a vast universe of your fantastic stories, poems, and even novels to read, and I initiated an award, "Jack's Diamonds" , to offer encouragement to the best of the best. I just gave one this morning, in fact, to a great poem. Go check it out when you're finished here. It's really worth a read.So that's the new course I've set to navigate 2026. I once was a writer. I may be again, but I'm going to stop pretending that I currently am. Peruse the port and enjoy the stories. Encouragement and even suggestions for possible ways to take The Orphan Princess wouldn't go amiss, but don't expect to see a lot of new material going up. There's a vanishingly small store of that in the warehouse. But I wish you all the best, and look forward to discovering more and more of your fine writing. You guys are the best! Stay inspired, Jack   "Best Reviewer" Category |
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