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RealStuffbyRealMe
I am ready ( I think) to share my blog, "RealStuffbyRealMe" with the Vocal community; there's plenty to catch up on! I suggest starting in October 2022. Here's the link: MyBlog
The more I write for the Vocal+ community the further I got away from my own inner work. This is not a bad thing. Exploring my writing in other ways has proved a valuable experience, especially when I had two "Top Stories", which of course I still am wowed by. Experiencing with different genres and challenges both official and those proposed by other writer's is extremely important to all of us. Challenges push our buttons to write when stagnating. The clock ticks on and I need however, and want to be, extremely focused on my inner story with an important narrative using the voice from my inner child's perspective. Using a guide or my guru within, ROCK, I am able to keep the other voices from leaping into the North sea when things get too, let's say heavy. As an adult woman I swoop in and out of my inner plight as I try to quell my own complex feelings, needless to say I am swathed in directives. By switching from LittleMe to MiddleMe it generally flows quite easily. I recently brought some of LittleMe to the Vocal+ ( which I realise is an ongoing piece) however, I have no idea which category to place it in. The first piece I submitted to the Vocal+ was a few days ago in Families, "Somehow, Someway" which was well received, in that people who did read it thus far have expressed that they related to the child's emotions, oddly it's follow up has not been approved yet (?) and I wonder if I should move the whole thing to "Chapters". What do you think? I will continue to write in my blog yet feel, rather know it is also growing into something way bigger than I had imagined. I think , NO, I am sure I want to write a bloody screenplay! Yes, I get that is a huge task yet I am not getting younger and MiddleMe is soon OldMe. Where do I find help writing a screenplay? I am not able to pump a lot of money to follow an online workshop and man, to be honest, I hate courses in general. Although I am in my second year of writing for the Vocal+ I am still learning how to navigate myself within this community and just as I am getting acquainted with my own keyboard I panic as I may need a new one! I am technically sitting on rusting bones here. Ole Rusty Bones is a piece I am currently working on, (catchy, eh?). I appreciate any insight, outsight, sideways sight, upside down sight and truly hope some of you will pop over to my blog and give me some feedback and by all means, if you have a blog, please share it with me in the comment section below. Thanks in advance for the community support. Sincerely, (Guess Who), ROCK!
About the Creator
ROCK aka Andrea Polla (Simmons)
~ American feminist living in Sweden ~ SHE/HER
Admin. Vocal Social Society
Find me: @andreapolla63.bsky.social
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My Aspirations With The Vocal
As much as I love to write, be challenged and to have deadlines which generate motivation, (ummm, usually), my goals are very focused regarding The Vocal this year. I want to read each and every entry. Why? Writers who do not read others creations become stale, stagnant and self absorbed. Getting one's story listed as "Top Story" or included in " Writers We Are Loving" has been the sort of a place I find myself wallowing about, wondering too often why my piece didn't make it and it leads to me not writing. Challenges can be fun, however, in the last year those who won first prize or had honourable mentions got my attention right away. Now I am digging in and like a determined detective I am going to unravel each and every gem, study it, read and re-read and pull those who are in the wild depths of The Vocal up and out them for review. I do have books I need to read and books I need to continue to write, but as Barbara King wrote, " Writing a Novel is a Marathon, Not a Sprint. We who are driven to write more than short stories need to sit back and breathe, look for other angles and most of all ask for and get some feedback. That is my primary goal. If I submit a story or poem I'd like to see more members commenting on it's substance, word choice, or hear how it might have been bettered by a simple comma. I want real feedback not just someone writing " good job!". I have read plenty of my own writing and know without a doubt it was not a good job, it was pathetic and lifeless, congealed from some brain cells on their way out of town. Learning from others is critical. We all know that our art form is one that is under valued; very few of us make it to the screenplay of our dreams, much less find ourselves discovered by a writing scout from The New Yorker or are even reshared here, in this very platform we are so devoted to. The character it takes to hit and miss repeatedly and not give up is astounding. In the old days rejection slips were stuffed in shoe boxes and hidden in the back of the wardrobe; now no one bothers to even thank us for our submissions. That says everything about being a writer's writer. May I persevere to be encouraging, supportive, candid and devoted to my fellow Salinger's, Keats, Angelou's and Pratchett's. Your work, your gift and drive are just as integral to the process as my own and it should be no other way. I will admit there is a lot of catching up to do; new genres to delve into, stories from years ago that are growing dusty in The Vocal's silver lined cellar, and to boot more submissions are coming in every day. It is probable I will not meet my own standards as I have been known to slip and slide on resolutions and aspirations previously, yet I frankly have been in an impermeable rut; I admit to staring at pens, pencils, paper, keyboards, the ceiling, the dead birch tree out my kitchen window, napping, scanning the cupboards for something to snack on, trying to read my palms, stoking the fire, watching Britbox, and just about everything one can do but write. Is it just January? I asked myself. Myself highly doubts the month is responsible for my fiddling and fuddling. So now at five hundred and ninety words, (almost), I write to all of you who are following your dreams, creating masterpieces and honestly some real bombs as well, I announce with fervour, without further delay I will be reading YOU, watching for your next publication and as often as the sun rises and sets, ( that might be a slight exaggeration), I will try very much indeed to comment, be real, plunge into the miles and mountains of words you put forth and give you the read you deserve. If you are looking for quickies like "Excellent", "Well done", or "Amazing" might I remind you this is not a blind-fold taste test but my real thoughts and meanderings regarding your portfolio of nouns, adjectives, synonyms and imagination. Hail to all creators out there, make sure to watch your P's and Q's! Cheers to another year around The Vocal!
By ROCK aka Andrea Polla (Simmons)2 years ago in Writers
The steps to losing a child
Step One: Lose a child. Not what anyone wants to happen and nothing you can do to change it, but you can go through steps to becoming happy again. You can go through steps to loving again. You can go through steps to become a new you because after losing a child you will never be the same person you once were.
By Tabitha Hinkley4 days ago in Fiction
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This one was catchy! I'm looking forward to reading your blog Rock. You rock for sure.
Aww ROCK you blog looks great! I never know where to put stuff either, especially non fiction so I'm no good for advice on that! Defo write the scrrenplay! Feel the fear and do it any way, I have no doubt It'll me fantastic! 🤍
Content Warning? Hmm. I must have frightened my own fingers! lol
Thanks for sharing!