My Experiment with Vocal.media

Has it been worth it so far?

You mightn’t have noticed, but I love writing. Since I was tiny, I’ve been doing it writing elaborate and embarrassing stories involving teenage vampires well before Twilight was even a twinkle in Stephanie Myer’s eye. I never thought anything really of it until in my twenties I decided to try to give writing a shot again, as an aside to other jobs, and the happiness it brought me was immeasurable. Whether it was good or not, was not the point, and looking back most of it was most certainly not. However, over time I grew more confident and occasionally felt like I struck gold, with a few widely read blog posts and a couple of decent short stories and before I knew it I was a freelance writer.

Fast forward to last year, just before the pandemic hit and I was really making it work. I was still selling my first book, working with several publications regularly, and writing independently of that. Then, with the pandemic, most of that dried up, but not only because of the pandemic but because my motivation and inspiration had too. I wanted to write, or at least keep doing something I liked to earn a living, working for myself and feeling fulfilled and I was frightened that this would change. Stuck in a weird state of a combination of paralysis and writer’s block I had no idea where to go until I decided to start up trying to write my blog…