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You Don't Know Jack

by Jack of Diamonds

Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2329921

In all fairness, I don't seem to either. Care to go exploring?

Hello and welcome. My name is Jack, and for around a decade, my "muse," whatever you conceive that to be, has been lying in a coma, rising occasionally to spout a line or two of gibberish, then falling back into oblivion. While I wait for her return, I offer reviews and this blog. Feel free to partake, but don't get too excited; the wake is still in progress. But thanks for your support, by the way. You guys are the best!

Jack...

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Jack of Diamonds

Dec 12, 2025 at 10:21pm
In response to "Imaginary Friends"

Kåre เลียม Enga

~ Tell me about it! Sometimes I look at myself and see one of those 90-year-old rockers from the '60s who doesn't have the God-given sense to hang it up. They're still on tour being wheeled out on a gurney and wheezing through an abbreviated set, thinking they're God's gift to music when all they're doing is destroying their own legacy ... J

Jack of Diamonds

Dec 12, 2025 at 10:17pm
In response to "Imaginary Friends"

Raven

~ That's the way it used to be for me; I saw stories everywhere I looked. Now it just irritates me. I was going to say annoys, but what I feel is much stronger than that ... J

Kåre เลียม Enga

Dec 12, 2025 at 6:43pm
In response to "Imaginary Friends"

I no longer know what does and doesn't work with a blog... or on-line in general... not even consistency.

My Muse would be happier if I would write stray thoughts down like I used to do.

Raven

Dec 12, 2025 at 5:40pm
In response to "Imaginary Friends"

Now I'm just imagining a stocking with locking forceps in them...and WHY they might be there. My brain kind of wants this to be a mystery story, but it could also be the opener of a horror story, or I suppose, if you're a nicer person than me, a comedy...

Jack of Diamonds

Dec 12, 2025 at 3:44pm
In response to "Imaginary Friends"

Tres cool. I've been cursed by one of those. Now that it's given up on writing, it teases me around the house. Fer example, we have a pair of those locking tweezers like you'd see in a clinic. Very handy. And when I need them, I can picture them in the junk drawer. I can picture them in the can that holds our extra silverware. I can picture them on my nightstand. I can picture them in the Christmas stockings that haven't been hung yet! This stuff is killing me; never mind that I can never find anything. I need a new hobby... J

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Amethyst Snow Angel

Dec 12, 2025 at 2:35pm
In response to "Imaginary Friends"

Not much, myself... My goals are floating like butterflies and my net has some holes! Looking forward to the Orphan Princess...

And let me tell you, my imaginary friends were the ones telling me stories every night until I decided to start writing them down. To this day, the slightest moment, word, song, image, poem, will fill my head with movies more interesting than anything I could watch. I have an overactive imagination and I put it to good use

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Jack of Diamonds

Dec 9, 2025 at 10:29pm
In response to "Snapshot of Today"

Thanks, it arrived this morning... J

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Amethyst Snow Angel

Dec 9, 2025 at 3:48pm
In response to "Snapshot of Today"

What, no, it's automatically included in all the Quill emails. I make sure to add it to each relevant item each year. Here it is:
Quill 2025 Nominee

{Image:2333342-50%}
Go ahead and embed it in the appropriate nominees - no one will believe you if you don't

Jack of Diamonds

Dec 8, 2025 at 2:27pm
In response to "Snapshot of Today"

Sorry, pal. Nobody sent me nothin'. That doesn't bother me, though. I loathe self-promotion ... J

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Amethyst Snow Angel

Dec 8, 2025 at 2:19pm
In response to "Snapshot of Today"

Hey, don't forget to flash the fancy Quill graphics they sent you! Add it to your signature and the top of your blog and the image in your reviewing tab. That's what we do around here

December 15, 2025 at 3:30pm

#1103708

Who Am I as a Writer?

I suppose the title should really be "Who WAS I as a Writer," given the conversations I've been dispensing here, but I'm still trying, and I'm not going to give up that easily. I'm in for the long haul. But when I write, I have a certain style ~ we all do ~ and mine has always had a certain feel about it. This is a quick dissertation about where that style came from... If you're interested.
I was a child of the '50s, which means that I just caught the tail end of the old Victorian manners and attitudes as they were being swept out to make room for the modern era of snatchin' and grabbin', of "Me first, and eff you!" I miss those times. More to the point, as a lifelong avid reader, I did my formative reading in the genre of adventure books for boys. This was a time when villains were cads, ladies were elegant, and the hero had perfect teeth... and since it was fairly obvious that no one else was going to write them anymore, I made it my business to write them myself. And here's the funny thing: Unless a few dozen total strangers who don't know each other are lying through their teeth for no other reason than to boost my ego, virtually everyone who reads these stories and takes the time to leave a comment or write a review, LOVES them! I have always felt humbled, honored, and blown away by turns. I had no idea that something so obsolete could strike such a chord with so many diverse people.
And if that answers any questions you may have had, I'm pleased to do it; this is where I talk to you. If you'd like to discuss this, the comment section awaits. If you'd like to discuss anything else, ask a question, recommend a read, the place for that is "Scribblers' Den"

; that's where you can "blog" to me, so to speak. I'm open for business all day every day except Thursday. Anything on your mind?

Stay inspired!
Jack

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