No, No, Nonet

Introduction

This is just a piece on my attitude to the current Vocal Breakup Nonet Challenge. People may come in thinking it is another Nonet, but they will be doubly disappointed because it's not a poem, and it's written by me (no I know that is a plus).

The music is from the musical "No, No, Nanette" from which I stole my title.

No, No, Nonet

I've said that I won't enter another nonet into the Vocal challenge because I feel that I am being lazy whenever I write a short-form piece, and while I may get a Top Story for my work, there will be so many entries that any of mine will be lost in the deluge.

The thing is though, while I and everyone else is unlikely to win a challenge, the only way to guarantee that you won't win is not to enter. Though it's a bit like my attitude to the Lottery, only one set of numbers wins so I only buy one ticket when I feel like it, but see many people who buy lots of tickets to give them a better chance of winning. I do know they will lose a lot more than me. Vocal Challenges are effectively unlimited and free for Vocal+ members.

The reason I am not doing any more entries is because I am not doing any more nonets for this challenge. I may do more in the future, but there are a lot of short-forms I might do in the future, but more often than not I discard them.

My last few poems have been sonnets and pantoums, which along with villanelles are my preferred poetic forms (although the pantoum is my take on the form as it is not strictly defined, but mine is).

When I was doing the nonets for the Vocal Challenge I made lines rhyme just to give me a little more of a challenge, but that is all on me.

The L*program Challenge to me, is a real challenge, because I have to really work at it, continually checking and hitting a thousand words so not for the faint-hearted

I then started thinking on our profile page wouldn't it be great to have, as well as the filter tabs for communities, and order tab, filter tabs for our Top Stories and Challenge Entries.? We can see our Challenge Entries when we go to the Challenge page and we can see out Top Story titles in our wallets when we get the $5 reward, but it would be great to have them collected. It would also be great if they added the read count to individual stories and their stats have not worked properly for two years so I do not know how many reads many of my stories get.

Conclusion

Thank you so much for reading and sorry if I sound whiney or judgemental here, but the only ones who cause my annoyance are Vocal, AI and Plagiarists(though I used AI for the main image).