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My Million Vocal Top Stories

I Actually Have Two Vocal Top Stories But My Vocal Facebook Friends Make Me Feel Like I Have A Million

By Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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It's Getting Better All The Time

My friend Caroline recently publicly encouraged me by referring to my millions of Top Stories, now I am not sure if my stories were top in her opinion or she thought I had lots of Top Stories on Vocal.

The reality is that I have had only two top stories on Vocal and seriously don’t expect anymore and I have written previously on why I believe that this is the situation, but that doesn’t stop me from writing at all.

I was just looking at the responses I got for my latest poem “Success”, this was a very simple list poem with a starting point of Iggy Pop/ David Bowie’s eponymous song from the album “Lust For Life” and reading those you might think this must be a Vocal Top Story. It isn’t but it obviously is with my Vocal audience and this is not the first time that this has happened.

I continually state that I would not swap any of my Vocal friends for a Vocal Top Story and sometimes I think Vocal listens to that, but to me some things are beyond price and my Vocal audience is beyond any price.

At the bottom of this article is a list of the vocal groups that I am a member of and actively participate in. These give me my audience and a lot of members are also Facebook friends so they can see almost everything about me.

In these groups, I am ubiquitous so a lot more people know me and appreciate me, though my comments on their work and my own self-doubt sometimes make me forget how appreciated I really am. So people see me so much they assume this must be someone who is respected and held in high esteem on Vocal.

Well as far as Vocal are concerned I am a face in a crowd of millions, but in the Vocal Facebook groups I really am appreciated, respected, and loved and that is an incredible feeling,

Caroline’s statement is something that will help motivate my writing going forward. I will act as though I have had a million top stories on Vocal and maybe everyone should apply that as well.

I really find it difficult to accept compliments, but that is just my continual self-doubt, and maybe that is part of what makes me able to continue writing, the need to keep improving, and hope that possibly I may just get recognition outside of the groups.

Thanks to investigating self-publication for my friend Lesley I ended up publishing a slim volume, and now I have another completely different but of a similar format that may be ready by the middle of the year. So my writing is slipping into the mainstream via other outlets.

So I don’t expect to ever be a Vocal Top Story millionaire but I really don’t care because I am a Vocal Facebook Group and friends millionaire and that gives me everything that I need.

When I joined Vocal I believed I had a shot of winning a big money challenge but that soon disappeared but I have discovered treasures beyond price in the friendships I have made, the fun I am having, the encouragement I give and get from my Vocal friends, and this shows absolutely no sign of letting up.

I am being asked to participate in more things, and receiving lots of thanks for my inputs and am in a wonderful place and situations thanks to everyone who is always there for me, even though lots of people are in Canada, The USA, Australia meaning lots of time difference hurdles to negotiate, but that is just life.

I think Steve Hillage's "Getting Better" is a really appropriate lead in song.

💜💟💜💜💟💜 My Favourite Vocal Groups 💜💟💜💜💟💜

  • Vocal Social Society
  • The Vocal Creators Support Group
  • Vocal Café
  • Vocal Creators Social Media Support
  • Vocal Progressive Group For Writers And Readers
  • Vocal Media Creators Hub
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