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My New Vocal for 2024
This is from the first day of taking part in a self-imposed, but guided challenge. These are timed challenges, designed to get in touch with your creativity quickly and write from feel and imagination – basically, exercises in free-writing and word associations to better get in touch with your own senses. They are raw exercises and importance is placed on stopping when the timer goes off – even is your sentence or word in unfinished.
By KJ Aartila7 months ago in Journal
Part-Time Lover
In response to your request, I have begun to contemplate the progress made since my arrival on this platform, and what the forthcoming year portends in relation to my own goals. The process of reflection brings me back to the ups and downs of story writing, the creative process that challenges me to dig a bit deeper, drive my vocabulary to expand, find new ways to forge vague, nebulous ideas into something relatable or at least entertaining. And then there is the raison d'etre
By Mark Coughlin7 months ago in Journal
An Extraordinary Life
"Every Breath You Take" is the name of a song, but it could be a poem, a recitation, or the beginning of a letter. Say we have to do an exercise about it. Who decides what to write? Is it us, the brain cells, or the neurotransmitters in the brain?
By Rene Volpi 7 months ago in Journal
A Challenge For The Holiday
Christmas is a great, yet extremely strange Holiday. In one respect, it is a time of Family, Joy, and Meaning. We spend time with those we care about, give them presents because we want to show them our Love, and enjoy each other's company.
By Cody Dakota Wooten, C.B.C.7 months ago in Journal
The Bridges We Meet
I worked as a Registered Nurse for close to thirty years. Over those years, I cannot begin to enumerate or even remember every patient I had. But there are a few that I will never be able to forget. And I don't want their memory to be forgotten either. Even today, I have a smile on my face or a tear in my eye when I think back on them. You see, even though I was the one that was supposed to help them, they are the ones that impacted me, instead.
By Shirley Belk7 months ago in Journal
Oops, I Accidentally Forgot to Write
This always happens. I shell out $50 or whatever on an annual membership to get access to all the cool member’s-only doohickeys and the better rate of pay, only to completely forget about Vocal when things pick up in my personal life. Stuff has been happening, y’all, stuff that I can write about! Guys, I went to Europe! I saw dozens of plays! I’ve kept up to date on One Piece! There are dozens of things I can write about—literal dozens—but do I write about them? Hell, no. That’s not the way old Steve functions, no, sir.
By Steven Christopher McKnight8 months ago in Journal