Is It A Test? Plus Other Writing Observations

Introduction

I don't know where this started, but again it's a bit formless but just a couple of random thoughts and observations.

Word Limited Challenges

The Love In 50 Words requires the writer to use only fifty words. My problem with my poetry, is that I often include an intro telling why I have written the poem or who it's for, but in a challenge like that would the intro be classed as contributing to the entry length?

I wanted to write this poem for the challenge, but I couldn't because it needed an intro, although it meant I wasn't limited to fifty words when I finally wrote it.

Most Vocal challenges now have an increased word count that I noted in this piece, and I've noticed some of the poems require a hundred words, like when I first started on Vocal.

TEST

Most people won't do this but I had a look through the creators I subscribe to and there must have been about fifty that were reset to TEST implying that they have left Vocal, although some still had stories attached and could be tipped, I am not sure where the tip would go to, though if it's still connected to the persons strype then they may get it, you wouldn't know who you were tipping.

Lots of creators have not posted for several years and I think this is probably reflected in the people who subscribe to me. So that may mean that out of my 975 subscribers, maybe a hundred are still active on Vocal, and maybe ten of them read one of my stories a day.

I still get new subscribers but I don't know if inactive subscribers drop off my count.

I know several close friends tell me they won't subscribe to me because I publish too many stories, and I don't blame them if my posts flood their notifications, but that is the fault of you know who for not allowing us to filter our notifications, but that is a bugbear of mine.

Conclusion

These are just a few things I wanted to get off my chest. Thank you so much for reading. I really appreciate it.

The song is "Try,Try,Try" by Julian Cope