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Become A Vocal Facebook Group Member And Bathe In The Positivity
Although this is a positive post about the positivity of being a Vocal Creator, many are attracted by the possible prizes from the Challenges. The bad news is that this is effectively a lottery , you pay your ten dollars a month, you can enter your stories and the chances are it will not even be in the top three no matter how good your story is. However you get paid for reads and the 0.4c a read goes up to almost 0.7c a read for a Vocal+ member. Again the bigger your reader base and following the more you will get but I am not going into that there are plenty of better advisers on getting seen and SEO and here is my own piece. As a Vocal+ member you can withdraw when you hit $20 instead of the $35 for basic Vocal members.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Motivation
I'll Be Your Rock
Sometimes our friends go through extremely hard times , we need to be there for them to lean on you , cry , cuddle , and make them feel warm , loved and wanted. The theme from “Friends” , “I’ll Be There For You” by The Rembrandts is both upbeat and a perfect mission statement for us to support our friends.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
Autumn Goddess
This is for a wonderful friend. I can’t say too much about her without giving her identity away , but she is a veritable Goddess and a wonderful Mother. The music I am leading with is Birth Ritual the first track from the EP trilogy "Maiden, Mother, Crone" from Jordan Reyne and is a tale about the absurdity of the gender construct and how we are taught to perform the rituals required of us based on our physicality from birth.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
Going Nowhere , But Home
This is a collaboration between Samantha Ciccone and Mike Singleton , from a concept that came from a chat . We were talking traffic and Samantha said she would love to drive anywhere / nowhere but somehow end up at home. I've used "Going Home:Wild Theme" from "Local Hero" by Mark Knopfler as the lead in music, as for me it fits.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
A Musical Education , My Experience of Public Service Broadcasting
I first heard Public Service Broadcasting on BBC Radio 6 with the song “ROYGBIV” an acronym for the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Beat
S'cool Days
There is an “Inside Joke” challenge on Vocal, the premise of which is “Share a funny, true story about you and one of your childhood friends.” The problem with this challenge is that very often funny stories are over very quickly when they are committed to paper.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Confessions
Loving You More
Sometimes someone just makes you feel loved and you want to return what they give you , and it’s not always easy. You make me happy , inspire me , make life wonderful . This is a vague ballad format and may end up as a song. I am including the Buzzcocks "Love You More" as the lead song, it is noisy but beautiful, and from the Manchester scene I was almost a part of.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Poets
A True Folk Hero
On 28 February 1982 Nic Jones was involved in a serious road traffic accident. Returning home by car after a gig at Glossop Folk Club, on the road between Peterborough and March in Cambridgeshire, Jones, tired, inadvertently drove into a lorry pulling out of Whittlesea brickworks. He suffered serious injuries, including many broken bones and brain damage, and required intensive care treatment and hospitalization for a total of eight months.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Beat
Welcome To Riverworld
Note this , by its very nature , will contain spoilers , Philip Jose Farmer has written some of my favourite books such as “The Wind Whales of Ishmael” and “The Other Log of Phileas Fogg” both nodding to fiction classics which you can guess. I will try and keep it as high level as possible naming characters , concepts in the hope that you may want to visit Riverworld.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydredabout a year ago in Futurism
