Martyna Dearing
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Martyna Dearing joined vocal right after COVID started in April 2020. Since then she got a few Top Stories, republished her book "Green Card Marriage", and self-published a book of poems titled "Loved, Death, and In Between".
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Whistle while You Work
We all have that friend who's super organized and has a box with a description on it for everything. They meal prep for a whole week, they clean their home every night before they go to sleep. There are never dishes in their sink and it seems like everything in their house has its place.
By Martyna Dearing5 years ago in Motivation
The Girl Power Tattoo. Top Story - March 2021.
I don't look like a girl with tattoos. I mean, it's not like there's a type but if there was it wouldn't be me. When I was a kid I never liked the idea of them. When I was a teenager some of my friends (with the permission of their cool parents) got them. Still, the thought of putting something eternal on my body was never appealing to me.
By Martyna Dearing5 years ago in Viva
To all my identities I've had before
Okay, here's the deal. I just wrote 2500 words for my English class on Friday night and my professor is probably going to hate it since it's not well-structured enough and all that stuff. If I let that happen that would mean I just lost 4 hours of my life (skipping the fact I'm one step closer to getting my Associate's Degree) not including the pizza break. Honestly, I had fun with it so maybe, just maybe you will too. Enjoy my English 01 homework!
By Martyna Dearing5 years ago in Motivation
The Girl with no Home(town)
Where are you from? It shouldn't be difficult to answer this question. I think at least once a day or a few times a week someone asks me about that and I should be really used to it. It's such a basic phrase, yet somehow I always struggle with it.
By Martyna Dearing5 years ago in Wander
Travel Influencer Phenomenon
George Bernard Shaw once said “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself”. Well, some people took it literally and decided to become so called content creators. They post daily on their Instagram or Facebook, or TikTalk or whatever accounts they have and give us the idea that we know everything about them. They basically create this whole new person just for social media purposes. The most successful ones are lucky enough to call themselves ‘the influencers’.
By Martyna Dearing5 years ago in Journal
Why I don't care whether I make money on Vocal?
I feel like lately at least once a week I see a 'Staff Pick' titled "How did I make $4,000 on Vocal?" or "How to make real money from writing on Vocal?". Don't get me wrong, there's nothing more I wish I could do than write all day and get money for it. Win all those cool challenges and see my savings account growing, planning my next vacation with the money I earned from writing for vocal.media. Yes, that would be awesome, BUT...
By Martyna Dearing5 years ago in Humans
6 reasons why it sucks to be a writer
My, oh my, why couldn’t I be an accountant? or a banker? … or a freaking lawyer? My last 3 posts on Vocal are all about how thanks to falling in love, becoming an immigrant and COVID-19 I re-discovered myself as a writer. However, I'd say that for a long time I was afraid to even call myself one because I was too scared of what people will think. Why? Let's be honest, being a writer or any kind of artist doesn't necessarily mean that you have a job. It just means that for some unknown reason you love sharing your mind and soul with the rest of the world and hope to get money from it.
By Martyna Dearing5 years ago in Journal
Thankful for COVID-19
Before you get all feisty with me on how COVID-19 has taken away the lives of many and ruined even more of them... Let me remind you that I'm writing what COVID-19 meant for me and only for me. Am I selfish for doing that? Probably. However, if this year taught me anything it is to be selfish. Again, don't start talking to me about wearing masks and washing your hands, I do all that and I'm not talking about ignoring the virus. I'm talking about being selfish in life and always putting myself first. This year taught me self care and appreciation for little things. This year taught me that it's okay to switch off my phone and unplug from the world. It's okay not to pay attention to the world's biggest issues and the whole of humanity falling apart just because it's simply too much to take in. What's most important, thanks to the COVID-19 I took a deep breath, looked inside my soul and realized how much wasted potential there is within me. And I couldn't take it anymore.
By Martyna Dearing5 years ago in Motivation
Falling in love made me a writer
I never considered myself as a writer. I wanted to be one. I always dreamt of being a journalist or writing a book but I couldn't finish anything that I started. I guess a lot of people have that issue. Mine was the fact that I didn't feel like I had anything important to say. I felt like anything I wrote was absolutely stupid and childish and I didn't think there was anyone who'd like to read my stuff so at some point I just stopped writing.
By Martyna Dearing5 years ago in Humans
