Thank You Vocal

Introduction

This morning I got up and checked the last story that I shared on Vocal. It was very experimental for me and I had intended for it to be a story based on one of my Tarot decks, the Occult Deck, but it actually turned out to be more like a reading rather than a story. A friend asked me if I ever did readings and I said no, I didn't really know what I was doing with them but just love how beautiful some of these decks are. This was the story.

The music is Sly & The Family Stone "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" which Vocal has really allowed me to do.

Issues With Vocal

I have written a number of pieces on issues I have had and still have with them not answering emails, not paying in a timely fashion, certain editor functions not working and the still appalling stats reporting.

You can read more about this in a couple of articles below but these are just the issues that I and others have and mostly they are just an inconvenience and can be lived with.

The challenges are good as prompts although I noticed one of the winners in the last had three challenge wins on Vocal from five published stories, that smacks of being fixed just because this person is a published writer. While it’s not impossible that the stories were worthy there were a lot that I thought were far better from real Vocal supporters which were just brushed off.

Why I Am Thankful To Vocal

Vocal is a great platform to store my creations which are on a very wide range of subject areas. I know this causes problems for some of my audience because they cannot easily pigeon hole me. Some people complain they don’t get reads but you have to grow your own audience to draw people into reading your stories. It doesn’t stop when your story is published, but some people take issue with this.

My readership started to to grow when I started joining some Vocal Facebook groups, the firs of these and still a favourite of mine was The Vocal Social Society and now I am an Admin in Vocal+Assist and True Crime, Horror Story & Dark Poetry

I write a lot of stories and they seldom pass a thousand words but the poetry often goes way over the required hundred words. I share these on twitter and sometimes on Instagram and on the Facebook groups and get a number of reads from them. Most months my income is more than the subscription fee that I pay to Vocal.

The addition of Subscriptions with its feed was really useful although my 360 subscribers probably do not follow me religiously but I use my subscriptions and subscription feeds to follow the writers I have liked and read their new creations.

Then we got reader insights that while nice to have are predefined so you can’t really say what you want to say and there is no negative option on there.

Then we got the option to comment. We have been doing this for a long time in the Facebook Groups, but this gives the option to comment on creators posts when you have no connection with that person, and that is what spurred me on to write this piece. It is lovely when you get something so positive from someone you don’t know on a piece I was really not sure about.

Really Thank You Vocal

You have given me a place to write, and with the love and support of my wonderful audience and friends I hope to be around for quite a long time, and hoping one day Vocal irons out the issues, but it is still my choice of writing platform and I think a lot of my friends share that view too.

I will share a poem in which I list my favourite Vocal Groups.

Thank you for reading, feel free to leave a heart , a comment or even a tip, but really I appreciate that you gave me your time to read this.