Rosie J. Sargent
Bio
Hello, my lovelies! Welcome, I write everything from the very strange to the wonderful; daring and most certainly different. I am an avid coffee drinker and truth advocate.
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Stories (138/0)
The Battle of the Bean Field
Hello lovelies, I hope you're well and doing your best as always! This week I wanted to soothe the little hippie that lives inside my black soul by telling you about the forgotten Battle of the Beanfield 1985. I grew up on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border, which is about a 16 minute drive from Stonehenge.
By Rosie J. Sargent11 months ago in FYI
The Lady of Shalott
Among the sunbeams and shadows, sails the Lady of Shalott. From shore to shore, riverbed along riverbed. She passes yellow-leaved waterlilies and green daffodils - searching for her lost lover. He had perished in a tragic battle absent from the woeful ballads. His blue feathered helmet was the only item that was left. The kingdom he served loyally too had fallen into metal and dust. Where valiant stone towers once stood and diligent war-horses proudly pranced has since vanished into mist and myth.
By Rosie J. Sargent12 months ago in Art
I've Never Been to Paris, but I've been to Saint Petersburg
Hello lovelies! I hope you are well and doing your best as always! Welcome to my 100th story on Vocal. Yes, you read that title correctly. I've never been to Paris, but I've been to Saint Petersburg. I know, how can I, a Brit, have visited Russia, but not our neighbouring country, France? Well, keep on reading...
By Rosie J. Sargent12 months ago in FYI
Re-Writing is the BEST Writing
Hello lovelies. I hope you're well and doing your best as always! In this article I wanted to tackle to art of re-writing. As writers, we naturally re-read over our work to make sure it makes sense and flows together. After this, we instinctively begin revising our words to make it sound 'better', or more 'poetic'. Congratulations, you have one or two lovely sentences, but how does one write a short story or embark on writing a book?
By Rosie J. Sargent12 months ago in FYI
The History of Banshees
Hello lovelies, I hope you’re well and doing your best as always. I love mythology and I wanted to talk about an old legend that has been scarying people for centuries. So, grab yourself some snacks and maybe a cuppa and let me tell you the history behind the terrifying Banshee.
By Rosie J. Sargent12 months ago in History
Why I Love Books
"Books are the best weapons in the world..." especially if you are travelling through time and you end up stuck in a library with your companion, Queen Victoria and some other gezza fleeing a werewolf [which is for some strange reason allergic to mistletoe] - oh and there's a bunch of bold monks waiting outside with guns.
By Rosie J. Sargent12 months ago in FYI
The Tragic Tale of the Nine Days Queen
Hello, lovelies! I hope we are all well and doing our best as always. Huzzah, huzzah, huzzah, we finally, we now have the History Community on Vocal, and I cannot be any happier! History is a subject I have always enjoyed. What interests me most about history is how some figures, events and eras become falsely romanticised and condensed into fiction tales that hide the real truth, or forget it entirely.
By Rosie J. Sargent12 months ago in History
- Top Story - June 2023
Finding Your Writer's Voice Top Story - June 2023
Hello lovelies, misfits, weirdos and fellow outcasts. I hope you are well and doing your best as always. I am not a big fan of AI being used for writing other than an editing tool. The one thing about AI writing I dislike is how monotonal the voice is. It is all the same voice, just clones upon clones; collective voices taken from other people's work. The voice lacks creative flare, and the pain and suffering that is the human existence.
By Rosie J. Sargentabout a year ago in FYI
May 🌻
Hello and welcome to May's edition of the Online Book Club! I hope you are well and doing your best as always. May has been a hellish tough month that has thrown me into my own psychological prison, unable to escape the events of past. I am too tired to live within the present, and exhusted for the future ahead. As such, I have been cursed with the dreaded readers slump; a bilbophiles worst nightmare.
By Rosie J. Sargentabout a year ago in FYI
Access Unavailable
Three days before I gave birth to my beautiful baby boy, I finally received my eagerly awaited Personal Independence Payment (PIP) review. I was born with Cerebral Palsy, and have spent many long hours waiting for tedious hospital appointments and check ups. On many occasions from a very young age, I have been poked and podded like a voodoo doll. I have also been under the knife more than once, and I'm certain that I will have to endure another cut at some point in my life. My disability is a neurological condition, there is (as of yet) no cure, this is my life, this is my normal.
By Rosie J. Sargentabout a year ago in FYI
21 Questions
Hello lovelies, I hope we are all well and doing our best as always. I wanted to write this article to 1) help other writers and 2) have a reminder to myself when I create new characters and maybe need a quick refresher. When I think about developing characters for the first time for a short story I am immediately sent back to my acting class. I can see the theortical characterisation worksheet in front of me. A tingey yellow with a bold bullet point font asking 21 questions.
By Rosie J. Sargentabout a year ago in FYI