Ice Creamed
Thoughts On Vocal's Twelve Summer Challenges
Introduction
Vocal just dropped twelve (yes, twelve, too many to count on your fingers) new challenges for this summer, which you can read about here.
The music is "Silent Scream" by Anna Blue, sort of appropriate given my reaction when I saw this drop.
What The F Vocal?
I do have an issue when I get loaded with things to do, my mind has difficulty processing things. It is why I am not a member of too many Facebook Groups.
When Vocal first dropped eight challenges, I did almost panic and wrote about it here.
Then there were another eight that I documented here, but by then, I had a handle on the situation.
The thing is, like the recent challenges, I do not have to enter all of them, and though I felt under pressure last night, I entered my first challenge entry today:
So that is one down, eleven to go, but I have not even read what the challenges are. Justin's article scared me so much.
Like many others, I believe I don't stand a chance of placing unless AI picks me by accident, even though I know my work will be as good, if not better, than the winners.
This gives me twelve excellent prompts, and I do know that my audience will read my work and tell me how good it is, and, to me, that is what really matters.
Top Stories and Challenge wins and placements ar nice cherries to get, but the cake of audience reads is what really matters to me.
So, panic over, and I will have all the challenges I want to enter by a week tomorrow.
I am grateful to Vocal for dropping these challenges on us, and it will give them until two weeks before my birthday to make even more excellent improvements to the Vocal platform.
Thank you all for reading, you are the ones that matter to me.
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Comments (7)
I've still not looked at the new challenges. What does that say about me?
Best wishes & good luck to you as well, Mike.
Whether you place or not, I'll be here reading your stories!
I was so overwhelmed when I saw all those challenges and didn't finish going through all of them. Looking forward to reading your entries!
Yeah I thought the same, I was a little overwhelmed about this. But I got to writing straight away and had some cool ideas of what to write about for one or two of them with immediate effect. I'm still coming up with ideas. I think that these should be available to non-Vocal members if they've been on the platform for more than two or three years as well, but that's for Vocal to decide.
I wish these challenges could be for free creators like me. They all look interesting and may try some just for fun. Good work.
I agree, It was a little overwhelming. I don't intend to enter all of them either, but knocking out the ones I plan to do will feel good. I look forward to reading your pieces.