Challenge
Well, well. Content Warning.
I keep searching for the house. Your eyes eventually get used to the light bouncing up off the white everywhere-- or so they tell me. My lungs sting with the dry frozen air as another blast of wind carries the powdery snow up at my face.
By Symbollica The'Bat2 years ago in Writers
2024 Vocal Life
Vocal has challenged me to write an article about my goals for this coming year. And I realized when I read the entry I had not even thought about it. I am still coming up from a downward spiral and before today, it felt like setting goals was overwhelming for me.
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Writers
A Long Battle with Instant Gratification
Over the years, I've made myself available to random people who have questions about my transition. Sometimes, people contact me about surgeries, becoming a parent, or dealing with family, and those who don't accept them. When I talk to people who identify as trans about transitioning, I always place importance on thinking about the longer-term YOU. I made a lot of poor decisions initially. I can't say with certainty the decisions I've made and have internal conflicts with until this point in my transition will be another person's internal challenges.
By Creating Balance 3602 years ago in Writers
Not a Winner
I've been submitting on and off to Vocal challenges for over a year. During that time, I've been thankful and humbled to have garnered a few recognitions along the way. However, that's not why I started writing on Vocal and not the reason why I'll continue to be here, hopefully for many years to come.
By Alison McBain2 years ago in Writers
This Heaven We Have, Here . First Place in #200 Challenge.
There’s an author on Vocal named Raymond G. Taylor, who, at least from what I can tell based on his profile, is one of those prolific, enviable writers who seems to always earn dozens of likes and comments on the stories and contemplations that he posts on a near-daily basis. On Raymond’s own response to this challenge, which he titles, “Sorry, Vocal, but it’s not all about you,” he shares an altruistic commitment to the rest of us:
By Catherine Dorian2 years ago in Writers
Keep Going Until I Make it Big
For the past six years since I have been on Vocal Media, I have published poetry, excerpt scripts, music critiques, film and TV critiques, biographies, celebrities, where are they now stories, true crime stories, personal stories, gadgets, tech, and history. Before I signed up on Vocal Media, I was unemployed and an aspiring writer trying to find a writing gig just to get my work to be noticed. I had completed my first play which had been unproduced and I was a stay-at-home single mother to my loving autistic son Xavier.
By Gladys W. Muturi2 years ago in Writers
Week Three of Write A Story Every Day in 2024
Week 3. 21 stories written. That's a lot of words and a lot of ideas. I'm sticking at it although I'm feeling less inspired to write microfiction and looking longingly at my old friends, the poem and the extended short story. I'm looking for prompts where I wasn't so fussed before. Unsplash is my saviour but there are many prompts out there to seek and I am still finding myself triggered by incidences at times into writing.
By Rachel Deeming2 years ago in Writers
An open letter to all the hustlers. Content Warning.
To be or not to be, to go all in or to unwind and relax, we question our dreams, running in constant chase of our quests to come true, we are the ones who never sleep. Dreamers we are called, the ones who passionately strive in the endeavours of the best they could ever be, here is a letter to me, a letter to you. In the stride of embracing the best you have ever been, nurture your soul before the onset of the abundance in you that lies unseen.
By Hridya Sharma2 years ago in Writers
.•❤•.Goals For a New Year •❤•Oº #200
What aspires me? To keep going on Vocal is knowing one day I will win a Challenge. So Yes I am here for more, rejection. I will not give up until I win a challenge. It is important to me, I know a lot of great content creators are here but I stick out from all of them.
By Emily Curry (Rising Phoenix)2 years ago in Writers
This is the Year
It’s been two years since I published my first story on Vocal. I should start by saying that I have a bittersweet relationship with writing. I have always loved writing, but I guess you could say I have commitment issues- apologies to my very patient fiancé- because for a long time I was never able to finish anything. I thought that maybe it was because I was trying to write novels and that was just too much for me. So, I thought short stories might be a good idea. But they all sucked. They felt dull and boring. I became someone with scraps of paper overfilling a box in my closet with half formed ideas and wandering thoughts. Folders of chapters that abruptly end. Approximately 100 notes on my phones that could go somewhere, but who knows?
By Tiffany Fairfield2 years ago in Writers
There's Only One Thing Worse Than an Author That Doesn't Stop Talking About Their Novel
Never does. I have a small problem when it comes to certain quick form constant scrolling media sites on my phone. I can open the app to simply kill a few minutes here and there and somehow the next thing I know it's been almost twelve hours later, dinner is burning, the house is on fire, aliens have invaded, and my partner has run away with a circus clown - that's how suckered into it I can get.
By Elise L. Blake2 years ago in Writers
