Process
What's on the Other Side?
I thought I closed out 2023 with a villanelle about writing with the Vocal community. Then I thought, why not write some thoughts about going forward on Vocal in 2024? So I did that. Then, Vocal posted a challenge about doing what I had just done. So, here I am, getting ready to do that stuff again. And I'm okay with it. I hope you will be, too and I promise to add some new, hopefully interesting, stuff.
By Dana Crandell2 years ago in Writers
Week Two of Write a Story Every Day in 2024
Week Two. 14 stories. Each of them microfiction of less than 366 words. All of them different. And so tomorrow heralds the start of Week Three and I am still in the marathon. Maybe with a blister or two and a dry throat but I'm there and I'm fighting.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Writers
"Cold Bonds: An Antarctic Adventure of Ice Cream and Friendship for a Penguin. Content Warning.
In1. ** Disclosure in the Ice: Percy's Frozen Find** 2. ** Wally's wacky lounge: Where Frozen yogurt Dreams Come True** 3. ** Penguin Trailblazer: 4. ** Percy's Adventures in the Frozen Horizon Chillful Accounts: Frozen yogurt Socials and Antarctic Revelry**
By Nagaraj story2 years ago in Writers
Write more, think less, fire my editor. Top Story - January 2024.
It's funny to think that the first article I ever wrote on Vocal was about setting goals and New Year's resolutions, and here I am, 3 years and 108 stories later, writing one again. That first article, as much as I'd genuinely liked it when it was first published, is garbage. I'd rather read the instruction manual for my lawnmower, cover to cover and in all of the languages, than read that piece again.
By J. R. Lowe2 years ago in Writers
Why 99% of Writers Give Up Before Completing Their First Book
While it may surprise you, with all the books that are published and placed on the shelves or found online each year, these novels only make up a tiny amount of the books that writers have begun to write with the hopes and dreams of publishing their very own books.
By Elise L. Blake2 years ago in Writers
Screenwriting A Life
The gloomy rainy day reflects on the surface of puddles beneath my feet. My mother used to say that rain is the most important moment to appreciate the life and death of things around us. I look around me as I’m sitting with my bookbag waiting for the bus to arrive. I lift my wrist up to look at my silver watch.
By Angel Adagio2 years ago in Writers
The Bewitched Syndrome. Top Story - January 2024.
One sits in front of a blank computer screen and wishes the words would just magically appear on it. If one could only twitch a “Bestselling American Novel.” But alas, the only person who could twitch a novel into existence was Samantha from the TV show “Bewitched.”
By Kenneth Lawson2 years ago in Writers
Fizzled
If Vocal taught me anything in my first year of membership, it was that other members hold a higher appreciation for the words fumbling from my keyboard than do the judges at Vocal. Had I written this four months ago, it would have been a bitter admission; today I state facts with a wry chuckle and a heavy dose of humility. My aspirations for 2024 are not to burn out or give up on writing.
By Mack D. Ames2 years ago in Writers
