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see his face on Medium he’s getting blocked straight away!</p><h1 id="e77f">I wasn’t winning enough challenges and they most definitely aren’t judged right…</h1><p id="210b">Now, this is coming from a very selfish perspective but I didn’t win enough challenges. I won one in September 2020, one in October 2020 and, one in March 2021.</p><p id="07d9">Due to the huge increase of creators on the platform, it made it much harder to get my pieces recognised. After I while I was getting really irritated and envious as I just kept thinking I deserved to win because I have won before, this isn’t right at all so I had to quit the platform for a few weeks.</p><p id="b79f">During my time away from the platform, I had an epiphany and remembered that I am not the best writer in the world. Other creators are just as deserving of a win as I am and some people are just better writers.</p><p id="9050">Once I returned, I had entered some really heartfelt pieces into the challenges and still wasn’t getting a win. No matter how unique or personalised my entry was, some other bozo won.</p><p id="b419">However, it didn’t take long before creators started to clock on to how challenges were being judged, which was unfairly and inconsistently. They can have challenges that have <b>THOUSANDS </b>of entries, some challenges would receive over 10,000 entries, so how on earth do they manage to go through all of these before the winner announcement date?</p><div id="2663" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/vocal-media-is-it-good-95e74f20de79"> <div> <div> <h2>Vocal Media: Is It Good?</h2> <div><h3>Is it another source of writing income?</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*yd-YG6KNqTXVW50R)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="850f">Fiction took over the platform</h1><p id="05b6">I was glad to see that Vocal Media was open to receiving fiction stories because Medium

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certainly doesn’t. Even though they’re not my favourite category, it was good to see that they were open for this writing category.</p><p id="6c5a">However, this meant that the subjects and styles of writing that I loved were no longer as popular. Over time, a bundle of fiction writers have come onto the platform and we don’t really connect because we don’t write about the same stuff. Additionally, the challenges took a fictional spin on them and I’m rubbish at writing stories, so I couldn’t participate. Well, I participated in one but the rest I didn’t want to.</p><h1 id="c593">Just doesn’t pay enough</h1><p id="2b3d">Overall, I think I made just under $4,000 from Vocal Media but mainly from challenge wins, bonuses, and ambassador payouts so I can’t complain at all. In terms of me getting paid per view, I made essentially nothing.</p><p id="37b4">My most earned piece made$ 2.56 with 456 views. Vocal pays for both internal and external views.</p><p id="b133">If that was Medium, I know I would have made triple that if not then over $10, even with the external views that we don’t get paid for.</p><h1 id="e3d6">The platform is not developed enough</h1><p id="9236">How have they only just introduced being able to go back and edit your own story this month? The company has been up and running for years!</p><p id="e918">Before Vocal Media introduced this change, you had to contact an editor if you wanted something changed within your submitted piece. Absolute nightmare.</p><p id="2e6c">You can’t follow anyone, you can’t respond to anyone, you can’t bookmark other people’s work. The only thing you can do is give tips.</p><p id="d285">Don’t get me wrong, Vocal Media has been fabulous for me. Without it, I wouldn’t be writing on this platform today. But it’s just had its day now, it’s time for me to let go and focus my energy elsewhere. Medium is where it’s at for me and now with my new publication, <a href="https://medium.com/the-first-time">The First Time</a>, I’m most certainly here to stay.</p><p id="468c">I didn’t even get a chance to try Newsbreak, but from the sounds of it, I think that’s for the best…</p></article></body>

Goodbye Vocal Media

It started off great but now we go our separate ways.

Side note: This post was inspired by Laquesha Bailey and her recent post on her reasons for cancelling her Vocal Media subscription.

I know what I’ve said before about Vocal Media. I was singing its praises, recommending everyone to join, and licking butts with other creators. Well, that time is now done. Let me go through a number of reasons why I’ve cancelled my Vocal Media + subscription for the final time.

Vocal Media: Highly Recommended

My experience with Vocal Media over a year and why I recommend it to others.

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Other creators kept stepping on my toes

Being one of the first to discover Vocal Media meant I got to watch it grow — at a rapid rate — over 2020 and 2021. I had joined all the new Facebook groups and was having fun meeting new writers’, but some of them were absolute pricks.

A few months down the line and I had participated in multiple heated discussions in the comments. A few folks had ended up blocked because they were just really getting on my nerves. One guy, in particular, was just a huge, selfish, inconsiderate baby, and the day I see his face on Medium he’s getting blocked straight away!

I wasn’t winning enough challenges and they most definitely aren’t judged right…

Now, this is coming from a very selfish perspective but I didn’t win enough challenges. I won one in September 2020, one in October 2020 and, one in March 2021.

Due to the huge increase of creators on the platform, it made it much harder to get my pieces recognised. After I while I was getting really irritated and envious as I just kept thinking I deserved to win because I have won before, this isn’t right at all so I had to quit the platform for a few weeks.

During my time away from the platform, I had an epiphany and remembered that I am not the best writer in the world. Other creators are just as deserving of a win as I am and some people are just better writers.

Once I returned, I had entered some really heartfelt pieces into the challenges and still wasn’t getting a win. No matter how unique or personalised my entry was, some other bozo won.

However, it didn’t take long before creators started to clock on to how challenges were being judged, which was unfairly and inconsistently. They can have challenges that have THOUSANDS of entries, some challenges would receive over 10,000 entries, so how on earth do they manage to go through all of these before the winner announcement date?

Vocal Media: Is It Good?

Is it another source of writing income?

medium.com

Fiction took over the platform

I was glad to see that Vocal Media was open to receiving fiction stories because Medium certainly doesn’t. Even though they’re not my favourite category, it was good to see that they were open for this writing category.

However, this meant that the subjects and styles of writing that I loved were no longer as popular. Over time, a bundle of fiction writers have come onto the platform and we don’t really connect because we don’t write about the same stuff. Additionally, the challenges took a fictional spin on them and I’m rubbish at writing stories, so I couldn’t participate. Well, I participated in one but the rest I didn’t want to.

Just doesn’t pay enough

Overall, I think I made just under $4,000 from Vocal Media but mainly from challenge wins, bonuses, and ambassador payouts so I can’t complain at all. In terms of me getting paid per view, I made essentially nothing.

My most earned piece made $2.56 with 456 views. Vocal pays for both internal and external views.

If that was Medium, I know I would have made triple that if not then over $10, even with the external views that we don’t get paid for.

The platform is not developed enough

How have they only just introduced being able to go back and edit your own story this month? The company has been up and running for years!

Before Vocal Media introduced this change, you had to contact an editor if you wanted something changed within your submitted piece. Absolute nightmare.

You can’t follow anyone, you can’t respond to anyone, you can’t bookmark other people’s work. The only thing you can do is give tips.

Don’t get me wrong, Vocal Media has been fabulous for me. Without it, I wouldn’t be writing on this platform today. But it’s just had its day now, it’s time for me to let go and focus my energy elsewhere. Medium is where it’s at for me and now with my new publication, The First Time, I’m most certainly here to stay.

I didn’t even get a chance to try Newsbreak, but from the sounds of it, I think that’s for the best…