A Few Notes On Where I Am Creatively

Introduction

Forty percent of my Vocal Stories are poems, and the devil in me calls me lazy at the thought of that.

Vocal has just become a platform where I store my stories, nothing else.

I have a great audience and am friends with a handful of Creators, but part of me wonders whether I should keep creating, and another part of me takes out a baseball bat, beats me about the head, tells me not to be so self-pitying and write something else because there is always something to write about.

I've included the song "Comedy" by Shack because it is a beautiful description of how life is sometimes, and the video is pretty good too.

On Poetry

I recently discovered the Pantoum and have found it very similar to the Villanelle in the work and discipline needed to construct one, so although it takes a certain skill to do it I find it relatively easy though others find both a bit scary.

I keep thinking when I write a poem I am being lazy, and this is confirmed by the lack of official recognition, in the face of actual reads and popularity.

I could write a one-word haiku "asetyyli-isovaleryyli-tylosiinitartraatti" is a Finnis pharmacological term, but that, while observationally clever, is very lazy. I have shied away from short-format poetry even for Vocal Challenges, so while I call myself a lazy poet, the reality is that I am not, and most of my poetry goes way over the hundred words required by Vocal.

A recent on was two hundred and fifty words, and a lot of people were impressed with it:

Then I was shocked that this was rated as a Top Story, though this had a thousand words, though every word contained just four letters. Again that was a lot of hard work:

I will leave you with the one that I am most proud of, and alternate take on Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven".

Thank you so much for reading this, it is most appreciated.