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Steal From Yourself: The Prompt - Return to something you wrote years ago and use one idea, image, character, or line from it to create something entirely new. It's time to dig through your old writing and steal something. Find a story you abandoned, a poem you haven't read in years, a half-finished draft, or something your younger self was very proud of. Somewhere in there is a line, character, image, idea, or tiny detail worth taking. For this challenge, take that one thing and give it another life. Drop an old character into a completely different story. Turn a forgotten line into a poem. Take the best idea from your worst draft and finally do something with it.
By Denise E Lindquistabout 13 hours ago in Writers
Asylum
It was a dreary night of October 23rd. Fog floated low over the lake, dripping on my coat and blurring the footbridges beyond the pink house that sits on a hill in the distance. Something rustled in the brush, moss clinging to my boots.The cold wind howled through the woodland landscapes. Above the grounds, a foreign moon, full of a different angle of light than the one I’m used to from the beach. The mineral smell of wet earth, the lake’s black surface, the bright green moss I slip on as vines grip my socks. I expected the cryptic galloping of Headless Horseman to come through at any minute to collect my head with the others.
By Natasha Collazoabout 14 hours ago in Writers
My Collection of Horror Stories is FREE to Read in Time for Halloween
A few years ago, I published a short collection of horror stories called Chilled Short Paranormal Horror Stories . I wrote these stories over time getting inspiration from urban legends, lore, as well as my own nightmares and whatever dark and spooky things my mind has decided to conjure up.
By Jasmine Aguilar2 days ago in Writers
When Music Memory Makes The Point
Who remembers this one then? Because I most certainly do; that's for certain. I wrote about the latest that's been happening concerning our current house move in THE WAITING GAME, which Vocal published seventeen days ago; it was only a short three-minute read, but seventeen days on from that story, and it has forever reminded me of a song from 1985 that has stuck in my head ever since. This one particular song replays over and over again, every time I stumble past a packed and sealed box... which is currently every single minute of every day, typically because there isn't any room in our house that doesn't contain... boxes... small boxes, medium-sized ones, and extremely large and heavy boxes, labeled neatly for when the time eventually arrives for that move.
By Jonathan Townend4 days ago in Writers
FROM PAIN TO POWER. NO FATE UNCHALLENGED.
There’s something strange about creating your own world. At first, it exists nowhere except inside your head. You can see the characters. You can hear them arguing. You know what they want and what they’re afraid of. But nobody else can see any of it.
By Lyon Gaber5 days ago in Writers
Parisian diaries. Top Story - October 2026.
Bonjour tout le monde—hello, Vocal fam! I’m writing to you from the French countryside, at a beautiful writers’ residency in the Champagne region. This opportunity first came to me in March 2025. It’s something I’ve been waiting for, fantasizing about, and obsessing over for a long time. Now I’m here.
By Natasha Collazo6 days ago in Writers
Writing a book
This is not a short piece on writing a book, but a question that I would like to ask whoever may know. I have written a book that I titled 'Acrostics of Just Random Words' for which I wrote over 50 of them. I am thinking 50 one per page for 50 pages, but some are really short so they will probably be on one page or maybe not. So, that is what I am asking is 50 pages a good length for a book like this? If it is I am now working on Book two of Acrostics now.
By Mark Graham8 days ago in Writers
I Am Alexandra Grant
The Journey I started writing 17 months ago, after our son moved out to begin his life’s journey. After 20 years focused on our child and my husband, I felt purposeless. After 25-plus years, I picked up my drawing pencils again and started writing. I have a lot to say, it seems, since I am still at it. The road has been long and full of rejection. If constant rejection doesn’t teach you how strong or strong-willed you are, I don’t know what does. This new purpose has also brought success.
By Alexandra Grant8 days ago in Writers
