Community
2024 Vocal Life
Vocal has challenged me to write an article about my goals for this coming year. And I realized when I read the entry I had not even thought about it. I am still coming up from a downward spiral and before today, it felt like setting goals was overwhelming for me.
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Writers
A Long Battle with Instant Gratification
Over the years, I've made myself available to random people who have questions about my transition. Sometimes, people contact me about surgeries, becoming a parent, or dealing with family, and those who don't accept them. When I talk to people who identify as trans about transitioning, I always place importance on thinking about the longer-term YOU. I made a lot of poor decisions initially. I can't say with certainty the decisions I've made and have internal conflicts with until this point in my transition will be another person's internal challenges.
By Creating Balance 3602 years ago in Writers
Foolish Things
I read this challenge prompt with a lazy sigh. Less than a month into creating this Vocal account, scarcely a few weeks into the new year, and already I gotta talk about my aspirations? Clearly I’m up to it, otherwise I wouldn’t have opened a word document in the first place, nor would I be typing about it now. True confession, I still don’t exactly know what aspirations I’m going to write about (and here we are, one paragraph in).
By Elle Marie2 years ago in Writers
The Myth of Success: Debunking the Illusion of Habits in Your Writing Journey
If you scroll down any blog you'll find post after post about writing habits, writing routines, productivity hacks, and almost ritualistic practices some writers will swear you need or you will never write your novel, or it will never be a best-seller, or the sexy singles in your area won't be able to find you. (am I showing my age here?)
By Elise L. Blake2 years ago in Writers
This Heaven We Have, Here . First Place in #200 Challenge.
There’s an author on Vocal named Raymond G. Taylor, who, at least from what I can tell based on his profile, is one of those prolific, enviable writers who seems to always earn dozens of likes and comments on the stories and contemplations that he posts on a near-daily basis. On Raymond’s own response to this challenge, which he titles, “Sorry, Vocal, but it’s not all about you,” he shares an altruistic commitment to the rest of us:
By Catherine Dorian2 years ago in Writers
Keep Going Until I Make it Big
For the past six years since I have been on Vocal Media, I have published poetry, excerpt scripts, music critiques, film and TV critiques, biographies, celebrities, where are they now stories, true crime stories, personal stories, gadgets, tech, and history. Before I signed up on Vocal Media, I was unemployed and an aspiring writer trying to find a writing gig just to get my work to be noticed. I had completed my first play which had been unproduced and I was a stay-at-home single mother to my loving autistic son Xavier.
By Gladys W. Muturi2 years ago in Writers
A Few Thoughts On Writing
Introduction These are more thoughts on writing, creating and what's been going through my head. I think I have stopped my self-censorship, resulting in several poems one after another, but I have also been getting some negative vibes which I am dealing with.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Writers
Show Me Your Bloopers. Content Warning.
The intelligence is artificial, but the stupid is real I know lots of Vocal + members use AI to generate cover images for their stories here. (Not judging, I've done it as well. Sometimes, Unsplash just doesn't cut it. I did feel a bit dirty, though.)
By L.C. Schäfer2 years ago in Writers
Week Three of Write A Story Every Day in 2024
Week 3. 21 stories written. That's a lot of words and a lot of ideas. I'm sticking at it although I'm feeling less inspired to write microfiction and looking longingly at my old friends, the poem and the extended short story. I'm looking for prompts where I wasn't so fussed before. Unsplash is my saviour but there are many prompts out there to seek and I am still finding myself triggered by incidences at times into writing.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Writers
An open letter to all the hustlers. Content Warning.
To be or not to be, to go all in or to unwind and relax, we question our dreams, running in constant chase of our quests to come true, we are the ones who never sleep. Dreamers we are called, the ones who passionately strive in the endeavours of the best they could ever be, here is a letter to me, a letter to you. In the stride of embracing the best you have ever been, nurture your soul before the onset of the abundance in you that lies unseen.
By Hridya Sharma2 years ago in Writers
