Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred
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My Time In Prison
A Little Background To My Sentence My Crime? I was made redundant around the turn of the millennium. I got a small redundancy payment and tried to get by on that but it didn’t last all that long as I had just bought a house and had a mortgage to pay so needed to find some way of keeping my head above the financial waterline. What was I going to do?
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 days ago in Confessions
Stop Complaining. Content Warning.
As a child, he was beaten and bullied. When he complained to his teachers and parents, he was told to stop moaning and grow up. The bullies were allowed to continue, so eventually he realised he would have to take things into his own hands, and a punch and a bully's broken nose was the action he took.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 days ago in Fiction
AI Generated Stories On Vocal? Seriously, What Is The Point?
Introduction When I see that a story is AI-generated it is a red flag to me, something to avoid. Today I have seen a lot on Vocal, and yes they are flagging themselves but seriously what is the point? I don't want to read something that someone couldn't be bothered to write.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 days ago in Critique
The Swan Queen
Introduction I love this painting shared by The Enchanted Booklet on Facebook here This is a freeform poem consisting of tercets with five-syllable lines, without deliberate rhymes. I was looking for a more formal construct, but this fell into place, and so I thought I would leave it as is.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 days ago in Poets
Become A Vocal Facebook Group Member And Bathe In The Positivity
Although this is a positive post about the positivity of being a Vocal Creator, many are attracted by the possible prizes from the Challenges. The bad news is that this is effectively a lottery , you pay your ten dollars a month, you can enter your stories and the chances are it will not even be in the top three no matter how good your story is. However you get paid for reads and the 0.4c a read goes up to almost 0.7c a read for a Vocal+ member. Again the bigger your reader base and following the more you will get but I am not going into that there are plenty of better advisers on getting seen and SEO and here is my own piece. As a Vocal+ member you can withdraw when you hit $20 instead of the $35 for basic Vocal members.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 8 days ago in FYI
Reading Orlam
Introduction For my birthday I got the Polly Jean Harvey book "Orlam". I was a little confused about it at first, but now it has revealed itself to me and I am enjoying exploring the worlds and magical mythical creatures and people that are described here.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 8 days ago in BookClub
