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The Micro-Fiction Challenge
It feels like forever since I was hanging out with my Vocal family and I truly have have missed you! I ventured back here a few times but I felt completely out of practice reading your poems and stories and overwhelmed by the amount of them!
By Kayleigh Fraser ✨2 years ago in Writers
Fireforged
My dragon is the woman with black ringlet curls, freckles tracing constellations over her warm skin. She laughs uninhibitedly at the Minions from Despicable Me, enough that you can’t keep yourself from laughing with her, and is never far from a cup of coffee. If you’re ever worried, her top three answers are to pray, drink water, and just don’t worry. Things are going to turn out the way they’re going to turn out, and they will be okay.
By Lark Hanshan2 years ago in Writers
Cat in Danger: People Lose their Minds
The people were all looking up and gathering around. By the time I got there, the commotion was in high gear. I asked someone who was already there what was happening. He, in sign language, indicated he was deaf and mute. OK, sorry, I said, in my best sign language version, which is near 0. So, I kept on looking up, but with my poor eyes, I couldn't make out what everybody was so intent on seeing. So I asked someone else. Excuse me… She moved away from me like I was a leprechaun. Oh well, that’s two for two, I thought. I chose to try my luck with this old timer and asked him.
By Rene Volpi 2 years ago in Writers
More Of My Vocal Milestones
Introduction Once I hit my 1,900th Vocal post I started equating some with important years for me and in history. I also thought I had done a milestone piece but my last one like that was this, mainly about hitting forty thousand reads and how I did it. Things have changed since then, but you might be a little interested in it.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Writers
Words of Love
The filtered sunlight bathed the room in a warm glow befitting a lazy Sunday afternoon. A brown haired girl about eight snuggled a small ball of white fur from her perch on the black lava rock hearth. Nearby, a tall lanky man with a full dark beard stretched across the dark brown shag carpet, resting his head on the bottom of the olive green couch. A curly brown haired woman sat in the Naugahyde rocking chair in the corner, a book splayed open in her hands, as she filled the air with a tapestry woven of words written decades before.
By A. J. Schoenfeld2 years ago in Writers
My Expectations As a Writer Of My Readers And Myself
Mackenzie Davis issued a challenge in one of her more recent articles: Writing is NOT a Safe Space. I think this is an amazing idea - because let's be real, I am not writing for fun. I mean, I am writing for fun, but I also want to be a good writer. I want to be a writer with content worth reading. I want people on my writing platforms who read my work to say: "Oh man, she published a book? I have GOT to read it!"
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Writers
How to Write With Chronic Illness
Do you ever open up Vocal and see a ton of notifications from other creators who are pumping out stories weekly, daily, hourly, and wonder why you are incapable of being as fruitful with your work? Today I'm here to tell you that you're not 'lazy' or any less of a writer than they are, because more than likely you looked at the title of this article and said: "Yes, I have a chronic illness and I am a writer, but how do I maintain both without ruining the other?"
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Writers
My Nostalgic Story
As I drive four hours straight I am extremely tired, though I am full of excitement for the next chapter to being. Putting Cleveland behind me, praying for safety and familiarity is important to me. I think like the pilgrims hoping when coming to a new land hoping for new beginnings. This isn't a new land for me it's familiarity something I know.
By Emily Curry (Rising Phoenix)2 years ago in Writers
