Prompts
The Breakfast Writing Club
Imagine this: You’re standing under the glow of a dim stage light, palms sweaty, heart racing. The mic lets out a sharp feedback screech, and you flinch. You clear your throat, gripping your paper so tightly it crinkles in your shaking hands. The room is hushed, waiting. You take a breath.
By L.K. Rolan12 months ago in Writers
Some More Observations On My Vocal Writing
Introduction I know that I often write these diaristic pieces and I am writing this as a last Vocal story before I take a weekend off to spend a couple of days in Whitby. If you know me on Facebook, Instagram or Threads you will still see the pictures I post before I rejoin Vocal properly on Monday but this is what I have been dealing with this week.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 12 months ago in Writers
When the Road Gets Tough: Why You Should Keep Going Even When You Feel Like Giving Up
Life is a journey filled with highs and lows, triumphs and setbacks. There are moments when everything seems to align perfectly, and then there are times when the weight of the world feels unbearable. If you’re reading this, chances are you’re in one of those tough moments—feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and on the verge of giving up. But before you throw in the towel, take a deep breath and remember this: you are stronger than you think, and this moment does not define your future.
By Pranshu verma12 months ago in Writers
God Dream, A Treasured Memory, And Hate
If God appeared to you in a series of vivid and moving dreams and told you to leave everything behind, travel alone to the Red Sea, and become a fisherman, what would you do? What if you were told to sacrifice your child? Gregory Stock, PH.D
By Denise E Lindquist12 months ago in Writers
An Ideal Partner, Message To Fathers of Daughters, And To Compromise Or Not
Rupi Kaur's Relationship Writing Prompts - Describe the qualities and characteristics of your ideal partner. Must love me and his family, laugh easily, love to ride motorcycle and the outdoors, hard worker, jack of all trades, carry me when necessary. That describes my husband. One of the most important things though is that he is in recovery from his addiction to alcohol.
By Denise E Lindquist12 months ago in Writers
Read This if You Feel Like Giving Up. Top Story - February 2025.
Life in its brevity often feels burdensome, yearning for us to be free of all the turbulence that stirs up its breaths in our hearts. How beautiful would life be if we let go of pain, anger, sadness, grim! I wish we had built-in programming that would delete all the moments and experiences that stirred catastrophic fires and raged war and kindled and whooshed the fire within us simultaneously! Human minds behold the capability of inventiveness, of loving, of living and yet with so much to be blissful about, we are inherent in our ounces to be boggled about negativity, to be enveloped in the traumatic flashes of our photographic memory. I know it is vital to be grateful for the goodness of life, the light that exists in our strides, the privilege and the beauties that we possess, the existence that we lead is a dream for many, that all consorts to be the gospel truth and cannot be denied. But at the end of every second we spend in this mortal realm, in the most painstaking way I would shout in gallant echoes of the rooftop, it is okay to not be okay!
By Hridya Sharma12 months ago in Writers
L.K.'s Unofficial Vocal Awards
✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨🖤 You’d think reading a story a day for a year would get repetitive. That’s what I thought when I started the 365 Days of Vocal challenge—expecting it to be a checkbox kind of task, like brushing your teeth or pretending to enjoy small talk at parties. But somewhere between Day 1 and Day 30, it stopped being a routine and became a ritual. Like flipping through records in a dusty shop, not knowing which album you’d take home.
By L.K. Rolan12 months ago in Writers
A Time Traveller's Nine Lives
Edwin knew something was off when the cat spoke. At first, he thought he’d misheard. The workshop was filled with the hum of machinery, the crackle of electricity, and the rhythmic ticking of a dozen mismatched clocks. It had been years since he'd first tinkered with the idea of travelling through time, but this was the first time something unexpected had happened—unexpected even by his standards.
By Diane Foster12 months ago in Writers
An ode to being lost in life
Because when you just dream about it in your heart, work hard for it and believe in the universe to perform its magic, it conspires in the best-designated ways to make your dreams come true. I have always believed in the higher power, something beyond the fathomable vision of the human eye that beholds us, ties us to our purpose and protects us in times of uncertainty and dejection. It is comforting to know that some mighty and divine force beckons us in moments of need and sometimes all we need to do is let go and have faith. Life in its truest mirth often transcends through the truces of rationalisation and delusion, through the light of knowing exactly what to do and under the traces of pretence which hides the scariest part, not having a single clue as to where your life is going.
By Hridya Sharma12 months ago in Writers
Mystery in 650 Words
ViM's February Prompt is here! For February, ViM wants you to write a mystery. But not just any mystery, a mystery that is EXACTLY 650 words long! No more, no less! It can be about any mystery subject as long as it meets the word limit. Post to either the Fiction OR Criminal Communities. When done, comment with the link below so everyone can read your entry!
By Mother Combs12 months ago in Writers
