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Observations On Vocal's Excellent Free Prompt Articles
Introduction I was looking for something to write about and couldn't see anything immediately in the official and unofficial challenges, so I then went to the Resources Tips page. Unfortunately, this has not been updated in over two years, but that does not mean it is not useful.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred a day ago in Writers
A Writer's Fantasies
As writers, most of us have big dreams for our stories. You know. The usual. Your novel becomes a best seller. Or it gets adapted into a movie.
By Jasmine Aguilar2 days ago in Writers
Your Life Will Never Be Empty Enough To Write. Write Anyway. Here's How.
I've never had a clear schedule. Not once in my entire writing life. When I wrote 1 Lovelock Drive, I was a full-time freelance copywriter. When I wrote a column for a well-known publication, I was freelancing, drafting my second novel through daily Substack posts, building an email list, and managing ADHD that turns every transition between tasks into a negotiation with my own neurochemistry.
By Ellen Frances2 days ago in Writers
It’s a fact awards
Do you ever feel that non-fiction writers are the poor relations of the Vocal community. I do! Those nice people at Vocal Media heap much sought-after $200 prizes on poets and story smiths, left, right and center, while leaving us fact factors out in the cold.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 days ago in Writers
Boxing
When I was in my mid-thirties, I joined the Augusta Boxing Club on Walton Way. The subtitle is the club motto, and I saw guys wearing t-shirts emblazoned with sayings like “Fighting solves EVERYTHING.” I was the only woman, and I swear I got high on the testosterone.
By Harper Lewis2 days ago in Writers
Why Do We Write When No One Is Watching?
I sometimes wonder why people write when no one is watching. Not when there is applause. Not when thousands of readers are waiting.
By Ibrahim 2 days ago in Writers
The Moment Before a Sentence
There is a strange moment that happens before writing begins. Most people never notice it. Readers certainly don’t see it. For them, the story simply exists. Words are already arranged on the page, sentences flow one after another, and everything feels intentional.
By Ibrahim 2 days ago in Writers
Chicken Slippers
I was in a rush. I had 30 minutes to get groceries on my lunch break so that I wouldn’t have to stop after work. I strategically bobbed and weaved through the holiday aisles stuffed with seasonal nonsense, organized in a fashion I can only describe as a hoarder’s wet dream. I must have swore in my head at everyone in the store at least eleven times before I got hit by an invisible wall. Inertia threw me into the very thing that stopped me like a cold, wide-palmed slap in the face. I stared in disbelief. I couldn’t help but marvel at the treasure before me: chicken slippers.
By Emily3 days ago in Writers
The Thought That Wouldn’t Leave
I wasn’t planning to write tonight. The truth is, I had already decided not to. It had been a long day, the kind that quietly drains the mind without announcing it. I told myself I would rest, maybe scroll through a few things, maybe close the laptop early and pretend that ideas could politely wait until tomorrow.
By Ibrahim 3 days ago in Writers
The Sentence That Pulled Me Forward
I wasn’t planning to write this story. In fact, I was supposed to be writing another one entirely. A different idea had been sitting in my mind all morning, tapping patiently at the door of my thoughts like a visitor who refuses to leave. I even opened a blank page for it. The cursor blinked. The silence settled.
By Ibrahim 3 days ago in Writers
The Joy of Pink Bagels 🌸🍩
Now, I know. I was skeptical myself, verrry skeptical. When you think of pink bagels… which you don’t, so actually let’s just say “the one time.” The only time.
By Gabriel Shames3 days ago in Writers
Wedding Toast woes.
"Cheers Violet. I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. I can't believe you invited me to this wedding...is it to rub my face in your success at nabbing Guy. He doesn't even remember me. But I was the first one he managed to fool...He tried to marry me, but I found out just in time that he has a family back in Africa. So when you stole him from me...hahaha, you unwittingly did me a favor. He is trying to gain citizenship by using any willing female whom he can bamboozle.
By Novel Allen3 days ago in Writers