How Many Words?

Nine months ago I published my first Vocal story “Coincidentally ... Ken Nordine” which I had lifted from my blog Seven Days In. It has had 40 reads logged against it, that is an average of one read per week. My least read piece has four reads partially because I never shared it on Social Media because it was such a downer piece but I need to get it out of my system and it sits there now as a warning of how not to be.

Coincidentally,Ken Nordine

My most read piece is my Vocal Directory of all my writing “The Never Ending Story” but it has no inherent usefulness apart from being a simple way to search my Vocal writing, although Poetry and Music have their own separate directories due to the fact that too many links cause an error that stops you from saving your story. I wrote this due to the problem of trying to find my stories using the Vocal Search Algorithm. Sometimes it works perfectly but other times it fails miserably.

The NeverEnding Story - My Vocal Directory

Last year I had decided to cut back on writing, which was principally Seven Days In and a few of my related blogs. One year I hit over 370 posts but last year it was 100. So job done you might think.

Well, Vocal tempted me and I can resist anything but temptation.

I have written 420 stories on Vocal. Some are poems (about 190) and the rest are prose, fiction, and journal entries like this. Given that poems are a minimum of 100 words and the rest are a minimum of 600 words, that is 1900 words of poetry and 140K words of prose, that has shocked me. Also thanks to helping out a great friend I accidentally published a book which you can read about here.

However Vocal is not a one-way platform, if you want to be read then you have to read (we have two words there spelled exactly the same but with different meanings and pronunciation, don’t you just love the English language and how easily I am distracted from what I am actually writing about) and I then started wondering how much I have actually read on Vocal.

I have read several books, but I have read over four thousand Vocal stories, that is ten reads for every story that I have published. If I apply the same poetry/prose split algorithm then that is going to be nineteen thousand words of poetry and 1.4 million words of prose.

The thing is I am a slow reader but I am glad to see that my Vocal interaction is, in my humble opinion, more than acceptable.

I do love reading because it allows you to visit worlds that probably could never exist except in the imaginational liaison between the author and the reader, and I continually enjoy walking through the portals into these worlds and have created a few of my own for readers to enjoy.

I could not have done this with the encouragement and love I receive from my Vocal Facebook friends and audience who give me the inspiration to produce more words and stories.

The Accidental Book

Without them and my Muse, there would be no book, no possibility of a second book, and no Mikeydred: Writer, Creator, and Poet.

For Music, I think something by The Creation and the song could be “Making Time”

Below are the groups from which I gain so much from and if you are a creator these groups will help you to become well-read and to improve yourself and your writing.

💜💟💜💜💟💜 My Favourite Vocal Groups 💜💟💜💜💟💜

Vocal Social Society

The Vocal Creators Support Group

Vocal Café

Vocal Creators Social Media Support

Vocal Progressive Group For Writers And Readers

Vocal Media Creators Hub