My Life On Vocal At The Moment

Introduction

Since November 23rd, 2025, continuing on Vocal has been made difficult for me due to Vocal's minimal support. The music I chose for this piece is "Hard Workin' Man", written by Jack Nitzsche, sung by Captain Beefheart, featuring Ry Cooder on the guitar. The rhythm provided by a car body printing press, and the image I created for this, is appropriate.

So What Am I Doing

Vocal has given me a year's V+ in compensation for the situation, but that means no Top Stories, Challenge Considerations or Leaderboard placements, so the only income is via reads, which dropped to six hundred over the last thirty days.

I now have it back up to over a thousand, and that will keep growing.

I have gone back and republished some stories that are still pertinent or did not get a lot of read first time around, and this time have got a few more. Over time, your audience changes, hopefully growing, but not being able to publish new stories saw my readership take a big hit.

I have also been looking for non-Vocal groups to share my work with (including old stories), and that seems to be getting me reads.

So that is the direction I am now taking, along with self-publishing my books.

Conclusion

I am sad that a lot of Vocal Creators have dropped me like a stone, but you can't force people to read your work, but certainly comments and hearts seem to have dried up. Sometimes I see people have liked my work, but no comments from them.

So I am not going to stop and will keep on recycling until I can publish something brand new.

This piece has got a lot of reaction, but that is just an exception that proves the rule and is clickbait.

Thank you for your time.