Challenge

Dealing With Not Being 100%
Introduction As you know I tend to publish something on Vocal most days. My friend Call Me Les says if I don't publish something and share pictures of cats there is something wrong in the world.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 days ago in Writers
The Real Truth About Losing Weight — And Why Everything You've Been Told Is Wrong
Every January, millions of people make the same promise to themselves. They slash calories to dangerously low levels, sign up for grueling boot camps, swear off carbs forever, and push their bodies to the absolute limit — only to find themselves, six weeks later, right back where they started. Sometimes heavier. Always exhausted. Always wondering what they did wrong.
By sammmy3 days ago in Writers
7 Healthy Habits That Will Quietly Transform Your Daily Life
We live in an age obsessed with extreme wellness routines — ice baths at 5 AM, hour-long workouts, 47-step skincare rituals. But here's the truth nobody wants to admit: the most powerful health changes are also the simplest. They don't require a gym membership, a nutritionist, or a complete personality transplant. They just require you — showing up, every single day, making slightly better choices than the day before.
By sammmy3 days ago in Writers
The Itch to Explore: Why Adventure Themes Keep Players Coming Back
Something specific happens when a game puts you at the edge of a map and tells you the next territory is uncharted. The curiosity that fires up is not a complicated psychological phenomenon. It is the same basic human drive that built trade routes across deserts and sent people up mountains for no commercially justifiable reason. Game designers figured out early that they did not need to manufacture this impulse; they just needed to create conditions where it could activate. That discovery quietly became the foundation of one of the most durable design principles in the medium.
By sammmy3 days ago in Writers
Only 955,587 More Until The Challenge Is Beaten
There was once a magic challenge. It was that hold my beer moment in time, and off to the races went all those who accepted the challenge. Truth be told, not that many were going to be up to the challenge. But that is, the magic of the challenge.
By Jason Morton4 days ago in Writers
The Ordinary Wisdom of a "Clumsy" Life
My name is Wang Defu, and I am sixty-five years old. To be honest—and don't laugh—I’ve just been an ordinary worker my whole life. I never had any grand talents; I spent thirty years tightening bolts at the factory, and my pension is nothing to write home about. My wife passed away years ago, and after my son got married, I lived alone in our old apartment. Life was quiet, and I liked it that way.
By Water&Well&Page5 days ago in Writers
My Writing Online Goals for April 2026
March has been one my best months so far in 2026! I was shocked with how many goals I hit this month, because it started off so slow, and it ended with a bang! I was not expecting to reach some of these goals at all, because it has definitely gotten more challenging, but man, I'm more than THRILLED with how I ended in March!
By Emy Quinn5 days ago in Writers
Unofficial Challenge: The Worst Job Ever
After six and a half months of doing the work of two people, a months-long twitch impacting my right eye, consistent migraines, and restarting antidepressants as an attempt to cope, I am officially done with a job that has basically been killing me.
By Kay Husnick6 days ago in Writers
Seven Years, One Heart: Where My Old Bones Truly Belong
They always say you raise children to safeguard your old age, yet here I am, these old bones of mine having lived in my daughter’s home for seven years straight.
By Water&Well&Page6 days ago in Writers
What Good are Numbers?
The world revolves around numbers. The whole purpose of something so simple is to quantify progress, determine outcomes, and assign value to nearly every aspect of life. Without numbers, the world would lose every ounce of structure it ever had, therefore, numbers are important in every way possible. Numbers are treated as essential, reasonably so. I would like to disagree, yet I do not think I can.
By Sophia7 days ago in Writers
I Published 157 Articles on Medium.
There’s something specific about crossing 100+ articles on Medium. At 10 articles, you’re experimenting. At 50, you’re still inconsistent.
By abualyaanart7 days ago in Writers
Some Thoughts On Vocal Poetry Challenges
Introduction This is quite a short piece about the seeming discrepancy between recent Vocal poetry challenge requirements and the actual lack of limits for poetry submissions.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 days ago in Writers