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Early August: 10 Goals Accomplished
Another one of my 2025 writing goals accomplished, and this one is amazing for a couple reasons. The first being that I got a story published in a publication, something I am always striving for. This is my 10th story to get into a publication, the 6th different publication I’ve gotten into. 10 stories feels like an amazing milestone. Sure, largely 10 is an arbitrary number. But it’s double digits. That feels incredible.
By Stephen Kramer Avitabile6 months ago in Writers
Speak Softly and Leave the Stick
As all of us are aware, AI-generated content is a massive thorn in the heels of genuine authors and web platforms alike. It's posted on social media sites, blogs, and even printed media. One of our Vocal members, Judey Kalchik, has done a ton of legwork on this issue (and many others) and has already given plenty of tips on how to detect it. You can find her articles on it here. For now, I'd like to focus on what we should do when we think we've spotted AI being used.
By Kenny Penn6 months ago in Writers
Festina lente: make haste slowly
My hunger to decipher messages intrinsic in the English language is driven by a mysterious force. An increase in physical hunger is driven by the hormone ghrelin. Leptin causes hunger suppression. My drive to understand the letters that make up words is less understood. Letters make up words that are symbols that can evoke positive and negative implications. Words feed my need to use imagination to interpret meanings of facts and myths that resonate on multiscale levels.
By Katherine D. Graham6 months ago in Writers
i don’t know who i am; i just know who i’m not
One time, in kindergarten, my teacher was fed up with how talkative my class was being—aside from me, because with my anxiety and people-pleasing tendencies combined, I was always on my best behavior. That day, I was the only one allowed to participate in our daily “rest” period, where we would relax and snack on whatever our parents packed for us and chat with each other. I was usually always silent during these, not really having many friends at the time. But that day, at the teacher’s command, the entire room was silent. The rest of my classmates sat there, heads in their arms in the dark, staring at me as I crunched on my goldfish and drank my little water bottle, feeling every bit as awkward as I was oddly proud of being the only one who had followed the rules.
By angela hepworth6 months ago in Writers
Pitching ideas is insulting to many seasoned writers
Pitch has many definitions The word "Pitch" has several definitions, which include. To throw a ball for a batter to try to hit. The quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone. The black sticky substance used to patch a roof The steepness of a roof, is often called the pitch Pitch black or black as pitch describes the darkness of night without any light comparing it to the substance used on a roof. A form of words used when trying to persuade someone to buy or accept something.
By Cheryl E Preston7 months ago in Writers
Song in a Room Without Light
I wasn’t okay, but I got good at performing the illusion, which made me an ideal freshman and unfit to survive. I escaped a small town by playing dead. I earned high grades, played a good kid, kept my voice tucked low. When I reached the university, no one looked twice. I dissolved into lecture halls and tried to stay visible enough not to vanish, quiet enough not to be pulled apart.
By Fatal Serendipity7 months ago in Writers
Impacting Others, Happy or Brilliant, and Huggers
Gregory Stock’s The Book of Questions prompt — Do you feel you have much impact on the lives of people you come in contact with? Can you think of someone who, over a short period of time, significantly influenced your life?
By Denise E Lindquist7 months ago in Writers
Stories with no faces
It was just a random day, nothing too pressing on my agenda, when I got a notification on Messenger. Curious, I checked my phone. It was a picture sent by my cousin—a photo of my paternal grandfather. I was honestly shocked. How had I never realized I had no idea what my grandfather looked like? Hell, I didn't know him at all. Someone so crucial to my existence was a stranger. But that's a story for another day.
By Maima Kiazolu7 months ago in Writers
