Just Ridiculous

Introduction

Yesterday something happened which hopefully and probably will never happen again.

So What Happened, Mike?

I do have issues about being overwhelmed by many things, crowds, work, and more. The short form Vocal Challenges cause a lot of sharing and posts and my Vocal notifications sometimes get clogged up with these. I have recently unsubscribed from two people because my Vocal notifications were just single creators batch posting stories. I have been advised to cut my subscriptions, but I like having a lot of subscriptions and dipping into my subscription feed when I choose, and I can see it either by creator or by the story in a far more useful way than the Vocal notifications.

So yesterday I became one of these sorts of spammers.

I created and published seven Vocal stories, some of them in short format and one combining two short format Vocal challenges. In my defense I didn't batch them and share them all at once, they were written and posted every couple of hours, but people may have seen me as flooding the Facebook Vocal Groups with my creations.

I don't post my stories in every group and wherever I can I post on threads rather than make solo posts.

In Great Incantations, I only share Challenge entries. I do have this internal pressure to stick to the rules while also trying to work outside the box. There were five Vocal Challenge entries from me yesterday so Great Incations got that many posts from me.

I tend to share my poems with poetry groups and prose/journal entries with groups such as the Vocal Social Society.

The thing is yesterday, for some reason (well I know the reason) I was inspired to write some stories, including two challenges that I did not think I would be able to do, but I did, one being influenced by my friend the writer Paul Campbell.

Seven Vocal stories is the most that I have posted in one day since I started publishing on Vocal and it did take a lot of effort on my part. It was also driven by my irrational dislike of the number thirteen, and my post numbers were in the thirteen hundreds, but last night I posted number fourteen hundred, so that was a milestone for me.

All the stories have had good responses (for me) and yesterday I had more than a hundred reads on Vocal which sort of shocked me. These aren't the only ones getting reads, and I still don't know if my Seven Days In blog is affecting my Vocal reads because that is still polling three thousand visits a day, mostly from Apple devices in Singapore.

As you may have guessed, because I am writing this, I am still inspired, but today may be a little less frantic than yesterday was.

I am going to listen to music, work, go out for a walk, and enjoy myself as much as I can.

I do have plans for a new poetry anthology based on this sequence that I started, but I need to write at least fifty poems before I can publish. I have already written ten poems in this genre so maybe in a month or two there will be another anthology.

So My Apologies

If I flooded your feed with my stories yesterday. I think I will be quieter this week for various reasons but no doubt will be creating more stories and poetry and pieces like this.

As I type this, the weather outside is beautiful and is calling me to take a walk outside. Just had a call from the hospital and the last scan was completely clear so, for me, life is good.