Crossing The Line

Introduction

This is not a criticism of anyone but just an explanation of my psyche and how I am what I am on Vocal and in the Vocal communities.

The music I have included is "Crossing The Line" by Stomu Yamash'ta with Stevie Windwood on vocals, Michael Shrieve and AL Di Meola from one of my favourite albums, "Go".

At Christmas, I saw a special episode of "The Cleaner" and I realised that in certain circumstances I have issues with crossing, what I see as, defining lines in certain instances. I wrote a piece on it below.

And Now This Is Me

In my life I love sharing things with people, and the closer we are the more I like to share. The Vocal Facebook Groups allow me to share my writing with others and I have actually used this to produce a few anthologies that are available on Amazon here.

That is all well and good, although I do write a lot (as I write this I am closing in on twelve hundred Vocal stories) but I hope that people see my work as something like a magazine or newspaper where you look for the things that interest you and ignore the ones that don't interest you. I am probably the only person who has read everything that I have produced, and I would be shocked if anyone else came close to that.

One of my favourite groups is Great Incantations which is meant to be exclusively for Vocal Challenge entries, so I only post my Challenge Entries there.

My psyche tells me that I should only post one or two stories for a Challenge and that should be it, and I generally keep to that though the recent short-form poetry challenges have resulted in floods of entries, and that causes me to think should I do the same but my psyche tells me "NO", as I write enough anyway, but obviously cannot post in Great Incantations, although I can post in Vocal Social Society and other Groups, but I feel I have to stick to the rules and not go over the top with Challenge Entries.

I do like to interact but not go over the top so in Great Incantations I try to comment and support although I start to feel inadequate when I see someone publishing their fifth short-form poem of the day, but then I think, I know I could do that but I am controlling myself and creating in other ways. It is probable that the more entries you put in to these Challenges the more chance you have of winning, but I think for me, one or two should do the job and if they are good enough they will get some kind of reward. Three of my short-form poems have received Top Story awards although they never placed in the Challenges, so I get a sort of high and low feeling from them.

Staying On The Straight And Narrow

The real irony about this is that I hate regimentation and being told what to do. I joined a gym and I lasted three days as it was so boring, and within Vocal I don't like being told what to do but I do love advice and constructive criticism, working with friends to create things but love the feeling of being a literary free spirit.

I still can't cross certain lines but other lines I seem to have just left behind in my hope of becoming an adequate creator and writer.

Concluding Me

I know this is just me talking about me, but I do hope you have found it a little enlightening. Thank you for reading and thank you for being a friend.