Our Vocal Stories In The Attic, In The Basement, And Under The Bed

Introduction

This is just a piece about how we treat our old stories. I have written so many that I have forgotten a lot of them. Sometimes I pick out some random work and am shocked at how good they still are.

The more we write, and the longer we are on Vocal the more our stories stop getting read.

These are my Top Ten most-read stories, the ones in yellow are stagnant, the ones in blue get reads most days even though they have been around for a while and I am quite pleased that "The Beautiful Art of Gail Collins Pappalardi" is going to be my second most-read Vocal story very soon, as I am not very proud that my clickbait experiment is where it is.

The poem "Red Rose" is unusual because it is a poem of mine that got a Vocal Top Story, that virtually never happens for me.

So How Do We Keep Our Vocal Catalog Alive?

When you look at a Vocal Creator's profile do you go back to their first posts? Highly unlikely, you are only going to see their stories if you subscribe to them or they make a Vocal Top Story. Even Vocal Challenge placements are not given much prominence.

We have a monthly "Old" Thread in the Vocal Social Society which encourages readers to check out other Creators' old stories and you can see one here.

The ones that keep getting reads I call "creepers" because, while they don;t get a lot of reads they get them most days and so creep up my charts and generate a few cents for me. I expanded on how I do this in this piece.

Linking to your old stories in current pieces is another way of keeping your Vocal work alive. And you see that I have done that with the story above. With 2,400 stories there are a lot that I have forgotten, but I sometimes remember things I have written and want to revisit, and this is where Vocal's generally excellent search facility comes into play because as well as titles, the search includes content as well. Below are two pieces I have written on this that are worth your attention.

This enables me to find the stories I want, especially if I want to include them in an article like this, and has been invaluable when I choose poetry and stories for my anthologies that you can check out here:

Conclusion

I regard my Vocal creations as my own personal library of my writing. I know many people talk about their old stories being dead and buried in a literary graveyard, but mine are vibrant and very much alive.

Thank you so much for reading and here are my thoughts on my own work to leave you with.