In The Pursuit Of Success
My Vocal Media Journey
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Liam Ireland
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One of my favorite poets of all time is the winner of the Noel Prize in Literature (1995) Irish Literary Legend, Seamus Heaney. Whereas another great legend Ted Hughes wrote the poem 'The Thought Fox' to describe how he goes about writing a poem, Heaney wrote the poem 'Digging' to describe his choice to be a poet, instead of following his father's footsteps, digging for peat in an Irish bog.
By Liam Ireland2 years ago in Writers
Family Is The Best
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What If? Writing Exercise for Fiction Writers prompts The Exercise —Stay away from the following word packages. They signal to the smart reader that you lack freshness and are an uninteresting writer. Better than ever For some curious reason A number of... As everybody knows She didn't know where she was Things were getting out of hand It came as no surprise It was beyond him Needless to say Without thinking He lived in the moment Well in advance An emotional roller coaster Little did I know The Objective - To purge yourself forever of stale and/or imprecise language.
By Denise E Lindquist7 days ago in Writers
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Hey Ralph - I hear you. Vocal is a challenge in persistence and equanimity. One has to approach it with a Zen-like posture or we'll start to break things through frustration. I queried Vocal about subscriptions thinking that these people are being informed when I posted something new. Not the case. There is no distribution - it's all self-promotion. So, you're right, top stories are picked by humans and there is a bias. Anyway, best to do what you do, enjoy the stories and poems and see what happens. Cheers my friend.
Nicely written, covering what a lot of us feel. We, too, get very few reads, but mostly due to exposure being limited. I'm sure Vocal Folkals all have reasons for what is done with regard to Top Stories, fostering diverse topics and timely issues, etc... but I do think they are trying to even the playing field.💙Anneliese
This is really interesting to read - I had never heard of medium before stumbling across vocal, and still haven't checked it out, but I fluctuate between enjoying vocal and accepting its flaws and finding its opacity and game play frustrating and feeling put off. I suspect you give voice here to the feelings of many.
Hi Ralph/Liam. I tried to rise your voice and hope that you'll be heard by many people.