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How Many Have Felt Lately
Why aren't your frustrations with this platform misplaced, like the timing of their upgrade? That's one of the most frustrating things about upgrades: they do more damage to our favorite world. For those who have been on this platform for a while, with all of its shortcomings, to see things get even more frustrating and know that it could have been avoided is enough to have people freaking out!
By Jason Morton3 months ago in Writers
A Budget Subscription
Introduction This is an expansion of an idea I posted as part of one of my pieces about the current situation. It is for Sasha Desideri's "A Dollar for Your Thoughts" to help support all Vocal Creators, which you can check out here:
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 months ago in Writers
The Attraction
So, how do we get more new users to engage with the Vocal page? This was the one conundrum I have thought about the most, long before it was posted as a particular question on the page. We have a unique environment here that allows us to discuss multiple subjects without many obstacles (just get the word limit right). I am working on one of her other Challenges as I type this, and I have a Vocal Challenge in mind that will all come together, at least by the deadline later next week. As I thought about this over the years, I came up with certain ideas - good and bad - that could help. But the question is very specific: new users to our page.
By Kendall Defoe 3 months ago in Writers
Projects
How many out there of heard of those sites that 'sell' college notes or even from high school and even middle school/elementary notes from courses that they have taken. What would readers think if I were to write chapter outlines from textbooks in the various fields I have studied and published them here on Vocal. The textbook and author will be mentioned. The main purpose of these outlines will be mainly just to give general introductions to the subjects for I know things change but the basics do stay the same. I still have my old textbooks from many of my years of schooling from elementary through graduate school. Chapter outlines will be from textbooks dealing with education to counseling/human services to nursing. Please let me know in the comments what you think.
By Mark Graham3 months ago in Writers
The Death of an Author
The writing community changed today for all time when we learned of the untimely  death of Barbara Gode Wiles. Barbara was a lifelong writer of horror, scifi and non-fiction. Horror being her favorite but it seemed that non-fiction was truly her genre.
By Barbara Gode Wiles3 months ago in Writers
This Is What They Don't Get
They looked at me and said, "Don't you feel lonely, living in your own little world all the time?" And I didn't answer right away. Because it's not a little world to me. It's the only one where I can actually breathe. Where I don't have to explain myself or shrink just to be tolerated and where I can think without being corrected, rest without being judged, exist without always performing for someone else's comfort. So l looked back and said, "You mean the world where people pretend all day, where you say you're fine when you're not, where everything depends on being liked, accepted, approved? You think I should trade peace for that? I don't feel lonely in here. I feel safe. But maybe that's the part you don't understand, because you've spent so long adjusting yourself for everyone else, you forgot what it's like to just be."
By Annam M Gordon3 months ago in Writers
Notes At And On The End. Top Story - July 2026.
I find it to be the most utterly pretentious notion to contemplate who will be present at my funeral. After all, I’ll be dead, and you’ll be wasting your time looking at a portrait of me since, should my wishes actually be followed and not bastardized like the adaptation of The Hobbit was, my ashes will be tucked in the core of a tree somewhere. What a dreadful waste of time for all of us to assemble here, truly.
By Matthew J. Fromm3 months ago in Writers
A Writer's Spark of Inspiration
Sometimes us writers need a boost of inspiration as we click and twirl our pen, wondering what to write next. We also might need that inspiration when we are in one of our writing slumps. We want to write but at the same time, we just aren't feeling it. Maybe it's burnout, or maybe it's just one of those days.
By Jasmine Aguilar3 months ago in Writers
