Milestones

Introduction

This is just something that makes me happy to see on Vocal and I love seeing people hit milestones. I have sometimes been criticized in the past for sharing mine but that doesn't bother me as I have a major one coming up that I may or may not share, but I am so glad to see others hitting and surpassing those milestones, often unexpectedly.

The thing is only us and Vocal see our own reads, so if we don't tell everyone, then no one knows.

We can see how many stories that people have published either on Creators We Love or by visiting the Creator's profile.

Sometimes you are writing, and all of a sudden it's OMG that was my 50th story and that gives us an amazing feeling.

So these are a few recent Milestone stories that I have seen with some observations on the post and the Creator. They will probably all be Top Stories unless I include one of mine, although I have had a few Top Stories based on these criteria.

Apologies if I missed yours.

The Milestone Posts

My Vocal sister Melissa celebrated her thousandth Vocal post with this wonderful poem for her character John Becker in her book "The Half-Paper Moon."

Leslie Writes has made it to a hundred Vocal stories and this is a great post showing the communities that she is most active in, also her collaborations, her temptation for NaNoWriMo, and the stuff she has thrown out.

Amber Annabelle is another Centenarian, she challenged herself to write a hundred Vocal stories by December 1st and she did it with this, and that cat picture is so cute.

This is another centenary piece from Donna for which she used to share a lot about herself, and it is a very enlightening read, though she is a Nickelback fan, but still a wonderful creator. This is definitely worth your time and a great way to celebrate a hundred Vocal stories.

Clyde Dawkins has reached a thousand posts and this was his announcement. There's a lot in there and he is the go-to Vocal Creator for North American sport.

He also has a large reader base as I know because he hit twenty-five thousand reads and got a fifteen-dollar Vocal bonus when my read count was under fifteen thousand.

Mother Coombs his three thousand reads with this post, and it is full of great advice for all Vocal Creators. As I said we don't know how many reads Creators have unless they tell us.

Paul Stewart hit ten thousand reads in two years, not surprising with his prolific excellent writing. In this celebration, he also lists a lot of other interesting numbers. I was getting a bit worried because I knew Paul had published some Milestone pieces and started to think I had imagined them, so was glad to find that I was not going mad.

This story from L.C. Schäfer details how these milestones can come upon you unexpectedly and suddenly. Again another great Milestone story from a wonderful writer.

The list so far has been gleaned from the last month of Vocal Top Stories and I know I will have missed any that did not make Top Story. I love that you can use the very existence of Vocal to find things to write about, and this was inspired by the very latest Vocal Top Story which is the first entry in this list.

Dana Crandell gives thanks to their readers after being inspired to share their story by Paul Stewart. This is a great insight into how we progress as we create and publish on Vocal, again one more story worth your time and attention.

Another interesting Centenary Story from C. H. Richard telling you how they reached their Milestone and what helped them make it it to that point. This is an older story but in one of the new communities. I have loved revisiting all these stories.

This from Mark Wesley Pritchard is not a reads or posts celebration, but just five years on Vocal with five special interviews.

Conclusion

As I said these are all Top Stories and worth your time if you haven't read them. So to close this I will share my first milestone celebration.

I think The Proclaimers' "500 Miles" is fine for this piece.