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@mcamayra
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Prompt: switch
- Set your timer for 5 minutes
- Start writing
- Use the hashtag #freewrite
- Publish your piece (include a link to this post if you wish)
If you are wondering where this prompt came from - blame at least 3 freewriters for it.
Here is the We-Write authored by @brisby and @f3nix
And @whatisnew said I have to use it. So, what can I do? I have to present it to you.
Copy and paste your URL into the comment section of the prompt post.
- Or, if you don't want to publish your freewrite, just copy and paste as a comment under the prompt post.
If you don't know what a freewrite is, here is a link to the introduction post.
Here is @snooks excellent tutorial on how to join our freewrite adventure
And @improv's input:
Two things I do a little differently. I just type "timer" into google and it pops up a 5-minute timer. I also type directly into steemit. I also rarely use a photo, don't I? So that's three things.
Please read, comment and vote (if you have voting power) on each others freewrites as much as you can. Especially if you are new to the platform, you will be surprised how many friendships are formed by reading and commenting on each other's work!
Contests by our Fellow Freewriters
I think freewriters love contests!! Here is one by our lovely freewriter friend @sharoonyasir. Prizes are to be had and it looks like this might be the beginning of an ongoing weekly contest!!
This is a fun contest by our freewriting friend @mountainjewel. It has nothing to do with writing but looks like a lot of fun. Ends on 2/23
@fireawaymarmot has a very special contest. Listen to his music and then, write your story!! How cool is that!!! Go to his profile for the latest prompt.
@improv is the master of puns! Enter his Punday contest here
The Constrained Writing Contest by our fellow freewriter @svashta is on! Check his blog for the latest contest. Click here to join
@miniature-tiger is hosting a 50-word story challenge. This is the opposite of what we are doing.
Here, you spill your gut out typing fast! The timer is beeping any time.
There - think about every word. You only get 50 to tell the story!
Click here to accept the challenge! and check his profile for the newest updates.If you like a picture to be the prompt, check out the #365daysofwriting challenge hosted by @mydivathings. Every day, a new picture to entice you weave a story.
Contests Galore
@moneyinfant posts a daily update of writing contests!! Go to his profile and start winning :)
Another compilation of all kinds of contests by @artz. A new one comes out every Monday! Check the profile.
Voting
Remember to check your voting power. Do not vote for a while if you are under 90!
https://www.steemnow.com/ or use https://steemworld.org/
Here is an excellent article explaining how to maximize your vote by @taskmaster4450. It helps you to grow to vote wisely!! And a more recent one
And here is a counter opinion on voting by our freewriter @improv
This post is talking about using your vote for maximum curation. Thank you, Asher @abh12345 Read the post here
Bandwidth Problems
I know that many of you are very new to the platform and your wallets are pretty empty. Believe me, we all started there!! Here is an excellent article which explains what bandwidth is and why you might have a hard time logging in some days - or posting. Thank you @jrswab for this explanation
There are many contests on Steemit. From art to music to writing and everything in between. Enter as many as you can!! And take advantage of the free money people give away I listed in the money section below.
Can one of the newer Steemians please let us know if this is still a problem?
Great Opportunity
This is a great opportunity for those of you who are more serious about your writing and are ready to take it to the next place. The Isle of Write just announced their new project. SBD can be won and you can even make it into a print edition. Read the details here.
An update on how to enter your work.
Writing help
A free app: Grammarly. A lot of us are not native English speakers and I am finding it a helpful app. It will underline spelling and grammar mistakes. Just remember that is is not always right -especially if you use complex sentence structures. Here is the link
Remember The Most Dangerous Writing App. You set the time - 5 min - and start typing. Don’t stop!!! It will destroy what you wrote if you stop for more than 3 seconds - and backspace does not count as writing on the app. If you are prone to stop and think - this app forces you to keep going. You can make corrections after the 5 minutes are over.
A timer. Egg timer is a free tool you can use on your desktop to set a time. This is useful for our freewrites or if you want to work in blocks of time and then take a break. Here is the link
Our fellow freewriter @arbitrarykitten has a business here on Steemit. Several editors are offering to edit and format your post for a small fee. Check out their intro post
Our discord channel Isle of Write has workshop rooms for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry where some of the experienced writers might be able to give some tips. Join with this link https://discord.gg/zfXNRnK
If you are ready to get serious about improving your understanding of the English language check out @majes.tytyty blog. He has lots of useful information to understand words and their roots better. If you have questions or need help, leave a comment on his blog.
Check out @ghasemkiani if English is not your first language. He explains many idioms. Often to use those correctly is the biggest struggle when using a foreign language. He uses #idioms-tutorial
If you know of other helpful tools or people, please share with us!
Money
There are several people who offer SBD for free on this platform! How great is that!!
Here are a few
@fisheggs - follow this account and you get upvotes at random times.
@sydesjokes - he rewards his followers with SBD for any kind of interaction with him- comment, vote, resteem.
@craigcryptoking- he does a giveaway a few times a week. Usually, they involve commenting and/or beer.
@danielsaori - he does a comment contest. A new challenge every week.
@rexusmo - I think a few of you have started to leave links to your post. Every day, he has a cheering up post. You leave a link to a post you are proud off and you might get a reward. Keep trying!!
Steemit Tools
This is the most comprehensive list of applications on this blockchain I have seen. I highly recommend that you bookmark it!! I also will include it in the growing resource section in the future. Steemit Tools
Staying Legal
This is an excellent article by @dmcamera on how to use images legally. A must read!!
Discord
Remember, we have our own room in the Isle of Write Discord! Join us now!!!
art and flair courtesy of @PegasusPhysics
If you like this and want more people to come out and play - resteem!
Also, I would love it if you all check out each others #freewrite and spread some love :)
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Thanks for posting today's prompt! You're a beam on consistency on this platform and I appreciate you @mariannewest!
I decided to switch it up on today's post. Check it out and let me know what you think =)
Welcome to the freewriters @mcamayra!
Hi Marianne! I'm not sure where you'd like these posted, so I suppose I'll put my Over 20 here. Thank you for the opportunity to write a look back!
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@brisby/my-freewriting-truth-the-over-20-club
Think I'm first. Unless I piss about writing this for so long that someone else gets in first. Which they might. Because I can't stop. Oh for f- sake...
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@felt.buzz/flip-jelly-14-an-original-snippet-of-fictional-irrelevance-for-the-5-minute-freewrite-challenge
Edit: I was first. Never done that before.
The first time I used the Most Dangerous Writing app, it lured me into a false sense of security by swearing I could log in and see what I had written. This time no dice. So did I get hacked? Wondering.
After two attempts, each eaten by the app, I finally wrote this without the app. Here goes: https://steemit.com/freewrite/@wordymouth/why-i-want-to-throttle-the-guy-who-designed-the-most-dangerous-writing-app-day-126-5-minute-freewrite-thursday
That app really does hate people. But it does it in such an impersonal manner... Nicely written :)
I never was able to find anything if I lost it. But if you really need to pause, just keep typing the same letter :) I do like that it makes you keep writing...
Hello to everyone. This one was weird!! Anyway - here it is. Have a great day, wherever your timezone lol...
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mysecondself01/freewrite-day-126-switch
Another day, another fun five minute free write :)
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mikesthoughts/five-minute-free-write-switch
I could have posted some early but bandwidth issues troubled me :( , here is my link check it out and throw your suggestions :)
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@pranithreddy/the-turning-switch
Switch It On
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mr-neil/switch-it-on-5-minute-freewrite
Hi everyone, hello Marianne. I hope you're all having a good day; Here's my Thursday freewrite https://steemit.com/freewrite/@belemo/thursday-freewrite-prompt-switch-38f0de729dba5
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@conradt/day-126-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-switch
Heres mine. Took a bit of a darker twist today!
Meep meep!
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@svashta/wild-west-chapter-2-part-15-5-minute-freewrite-challenge
Here is my freewrite for today... Hope you all enjoy it :o)
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@ablaze/the-treaty-freewrite
Switch!
https://steemit.com/writing/@ellievallie/nine-lanes
A little first person stream-of-consciousness style view into the inner workings of my mind. Lol down the rabbit hole we go: https://steemit.com/poetry/@raj808/day-126-5-minute-freewrite-switched-on-poem
Hello,
I'm having another go here, nice to be back :) Thank you for the challenge!
Here's my entry:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@deemarshall/entry-for-day-126-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-switch
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@wonderwop/roofied
My entry.
https://steemit.com/writing/@ebitularmbert/would-you-switch-places-with-me-freewrite-prompt-switch
Hello again everyone! It's great to be part of this community everyday. It's like, a day without freewriting is not complete.
Here's mine for today:
The Switch That Ended Her Fairytale
That was fun.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@honeydue/unremembering-freewrite
Here is my entry:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@marie-jay/the-switch-5-minutes-freewrite
I backtracked to yesterday's prompt...
https://steemit.com/busy/@snrm/day-28-of-free-write-cinnamon-prompt
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@improv/switch-5minutefreewrite
Hey everybody! My freewrite for the day!
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@freedomtowrite/day-126-5-minute-freewrite-switch-oh-those-were-days-haha
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@snook/my-life-5-minute-freewrite
Here is my late entry from yesterday's "cinnamon" prompt. 😎
"The one thing that Edmond did have going for him was luck"
Hello everyone! I'm finally back with freewriting after some time. I hope you'll check out my entry for this 🤗 Have a good day 🌻 https://steemit.com/freewrite/@brewingstories/day-126-5-minute-freewrite-switch
i miss freewriting.. so i am back.. really sorry @mariannewest that i couldnt spare time for freewrites.. but i do what i can.. so here is my piece .. hope ya’ll will enjoy it
https://steemit.com/fiction/@jbn/switch-a-5-minute-free-write
Hi everyone! Here is my first ever entry in the freewrite contest:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@bennettitalia/pajamas-freewrite-126-switch
Thank you for inspiring me to try to make this a daily practice again @mariannewest! I had fun with this first attempt :)
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Hello there! Here is my entry:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@iyanpol12/switch-5-minute-freewrite-challenge
Greetings to my people from #Freewrite I will be reading
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@docpaoh/freewrite-switch
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@carolkean/day-126-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-switch-part-one
Someday I will learn to write something in five minutes.
More than an hour passed, so I decided to finish this one another day.
Too many other things beckon. But at least I have the start of a story that will indeed use that prompt Switch! Thank you @mariannewest for these nudges to get us to try new things and see what happens when we go with the flow
Hello, so I missed out on cinnamon prompt. Did something for today's prompt. Here it is https://steemit.com/freewrite/@pasaift/5-minutes-freewrite-switch
Hello All! This is my first time entering a piece into the 5 minute free write! I had fun with the topic of the day, "switch". My writings tend to be dark and heavy, so please practice self care when reading my thoughts. I hope to get to participate in this again! Have a great day all.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@beemillz/yes-i-just-switch
Hi @mariannewest, sorry have been away from this freewriting for so long. Nice to see the list is getting longer and longer. Congrats!
After reading your post, I wish to update you that @ghasemkiani has stopped his English-Idiom tutorial post since 28 days ago.
I will participate in your freewrite again when I have the time to do it. Take care and wishing you a pleasant day.
thank you so much!! That is too bad - it was such an important service - but scrolling back might be too much...
You are most welcome and Have a Nice Day!
Interesting prompt. At least now I know who to blame. :-))
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@dennisauburn/what-where
tooo FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi @mariannewest, this is my first time joining freewrite. Been reading others' freewrite and it looks fun and yet challenging at the same time. Hope it turns out fine. I didn't count in the "putting in photos" into the 5 minutes. Meaning after I write for 5 minutes then only I go and search the photo and put into the post. Hope this counts. Here is my post link. 😉
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@iamjadeline/5-minute-freewrite-a-switch-into-a-ballpit
You would probably enjoy more by writing a free write rather than writing articles , btw a warm welcome from side . We would always be ecstatic to see your posts :) . hope you would stay longer :)
Céad míle fáilte! (that means 100,000 welcomes in Irish :o) I really enjoyed your story, what a wonderful take on the prompt, looking forward to reading more of your freewrites, as I'm sure you're hooked now
Reader discretion advised... The start of something sexy:
Okay, today I went all bananas on this prompt while listening to Jimi Hendrix - and I'm seriously going to spare you the result. Guess I'm a bit sleep-deprived ;) Instead I'm looking forward to read as many contributions as I can now. :) Enjoy today's freewrite everybody!
That's not fair!!!!!!!! I post no matter what......it's all part of the freewrite fun? :D
It can not be that bad. hugs and lots of love
LOL, thanks so much!! What can I say, you just convinced me - so this one's on you ;)
Here's my contribution to freewrite #126 ("switch").
starting at the top:
Urgent - Another Attempt to Steal from You. Read this Do not click on links in your wallet from @gtg.witnesses - it is a scam!!!
Now for some fun! here is the prompt for today! As I'm all bundled up under blankets! LOL
Day 127: 5 Minute - Prompt: sunburn
went through everyone's link on the list posted by 3:41PM CST