Top Stories
Stories in Motivation that you'll love, handpicked by our team.
To Finish a Series. Top Story - January 2025.
It’s always great when you realize your mistake 2/3s of the way through writing the series. For a while, I could not figure out why reception for my second book had been so much more muted than my first book. Certainly, it’s not as novel (hehe) the second time you publish something. Perhaps I should have spaced it out more than six months. Did I not do enough promotions?
By Stephen A. Roddewig2 years ago in Motivation
Persistence. Top Story - December 2024.
At the beginning of the year, I chose a word to inspire my writing for 2024 as part of a writer's challenge on Instagram. Persistence / NounDefinition from the Britannica Dictionary: The quality that allows someone to continue doing something, or trying to do something, even though it is difficult or opposed by other people
By Alyssa Musso2 years ago in Motivation
Sore Loser. Runner-Up in Echoes of the Year’s Lessons Challenge. Top Story - December 2024.
Last year at the start of 2024 Vocal hosted the #200 Challenge that asked entries to explore the aspirations we Vocalites had for our upcoming year on Vocal. I had already determined a goal for myself of entering every Vocal+ challenge with an entry I was proud of. I almost reconsidered that goal immediately when the #200 challenge was announced. I write fiction and poetry, not personal essays! But I completed an entry and have for every Vocal+ challenge since. And I have been proud of most of my entries, not all, but most. I suppose it is fitting that the final challenge of 2024 (based on deadline) would require me once again to drag myself out of my comfort zone to write one more personal essay. So here we go.
By D.K. Shepard2 years ago in Motivation
2024: The Year of Setbacks, Sadness and Hope. Top Story - December 2024.
There are so many things I want to say. So many things I want to express. I could write this a thousand times in a thousand ways and still not fully get my point across. So, rather than overthink it, I’ll just write it.
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Motivation
Learning to Love Myself First and Foremost. Top Story - December 2024.
We all tend to sit back, take a deep breath, and start unraveling past events at different stages of our lives. It's like watching a movie in reverse. If only we had seen what was coming. Would we have acted differently?
By Calvin London2 years ago in Motivation
You Never Know What The Year Will Bring | Part 1. Top Story - November 2024.
It was from one day this year, a starting point, that everything emerged. *** If you had told me at the turn of this year about everything I would eventually accomplish with my writing, you would have gotten a very unladylike smorgasbord of snorting, scoffing, and tear-inducing laughter.
By Alexandria Stanwyck2 years ago in Motivation
Echoes of a Beautiful Soul. Top Story - November 2024.
2025 better be good to my family. I had a trying year. 2024 was a one of the hardest years of my life. This past year, I brought a new little one into our home. He has so much personality now and he truly was the perfect addition to our family. My two older kiddos are smitten with him.
By Chloe Unfiltered2 years ago in Motivation
Just Live. Runner-Up in Echoes of the Year’s Lessons Challenge. Top Story - November 2024. Content Warning.
I had been told that no one would care if I were dead, and the person who told me that, also let me know that they would've happily thrown me off my own balcony, but luckily for me, they stopped themselves from doing it..... well bless their cotton socks! That was good of them, now wasn't it? That was at the end of 2023.
By Jess Boyes2 years ago in Motivation
Elusive 100th Parkrun . Top Story - November 2024.
I want one! Vibrant shirts tout runners’ grand achievements of 25, 50 or 100 Parkruns. How hard can it be? 52 weeks per year… do the Maths! Yep… you’ve got it! Two measly years and four weeks margin to wag or wimp out!
By Angie the Archivist 📚🪶2 years ago in Motivation
