Producing Vocal Stories At Speed

To Produce A Vocal Story

A number of people have remarked on the number of stories I produce on Vocal and the speed at which I produce them.

I do not write much fiction so I usually have a subject on which I am writing and can then build my story around that particular subject.

My stories usually drop around the six hundred word minimum for Vocal stories though more recently go up to seven or eight hundred.

First of all, my early vocal writing was made up of experiments to get the best working environment.

Microsoft Word

I tried writing using Microsoft Word with Grammarly but found it very slow and cumbersome, although my computer is five years old at least, so that may be part of the reason, but it was also tied to my computer.

Google Docs

For many years I have used Google Sheets on my phone for logging my walking and it is both flexible and fast. When working for Geek Talent I used Google Docs successfully and thought I would try going back to that.

I found it was shockingly fast compared with Microsoft Word, and is also entirely online and therefore accessible from my computer, phone and any other mobile device that can support Docs (my Kindle Fire can only read them so no good for an editor).

You can also dictate into Google Docs, although afterwards a lot of editing and tidying up is required, but is a great option for creating while walking.

Grammarly still works with Google Docs so that combined with Google Docs internal grammar an spelling checks helps make sure your document is in reasonable shape, although lots of faults still slip through so you have to read, and read again to find the errors that escape the checkers.

Submitting The Story To Vocal

Make sure you have everything in your story and copy it to the Vocal Editor and this will probably throw up more errors for you to correct, but some like the “Favourite / Favorite” and “Recognise / Recognize” scenarios can be slightly annoying , and also the face that the Editor does not allow column formatting, different fonts and many other things can seem light a straightjacket but it does provide a uniform reading and writing environment for every Vocal Creator, and that is a definite positive.

Queues And Publishing Times on Vocal

Don’t be afraid to have a queue of stories that you have submitted to Vocal, I sometimes worry that I have only four, and in fact at the moment I have just one plus this one.

This gives you the option of sharing in the Vocal Facebook groups and other Social Media outlets at the speed you decide.

Of course you do need to write things, and it’s unlikely you can create fiction as fast as I create stories, this is because the bones of what I write already exist. For instance, I recently published three playlists. This music already exists, so I created a YouTube playlist, and then recorded my observations on each song in the playlist. Two of my Vocal Top Stories have been playlists.

Poetry is another quick win, the word limit is just a hundred words, and I am lucky enough to have a wonderful Muse to inspire my poetry, almost a hundred of my two hundred poems have been for her, though poetry just accounts for twenty percent of my output.

A Conclusion - The Pros and Cons of Fast Publishing Stories On Vocal

The obvious pros are that you are paid for reads on Vocal, although people will only read if what you are writing captures their interest. Also people may see a lot of posts as flooding or spamming and therefore ignore you, that is an obvious con.

I have almost twelve thousand reads, which is seventy dollars from Vocal, but I have a lot of posts that have less than ten reads, one piece with over a thousand reads and ten with over a hundred reads but it is my whole body of work that gives me money not a single story.

The talk about writing by Stephen King has some great ideas about creative writing, well worth listening to for fiction writers, and really, writers of anything.

If you want to create Vocal Stories quickly , make sure you have plenty of raw material to write about, and if you are really lucky like me , A Muse.