Freewrite Encouragers
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I will write a post later on what we all do and make sure I get it to you all.
So much happening at the Freewrite House!!!
@byn is showcasing many of your fantastic freewrites in Volume 9 of Favorite Freewrites. Please help us find excellent freewrites by either participating in our SBI drawing on Tuesday or dropping a link to a freewrite you read and like in the comment section of the current Favorite post.
@brisby is bringing you this fantastic interview with @deirdyweirdy
The Selfie Party is so much fun!!
Freewriters. You all are amazing!!! The prize for our 200 Day Celebration contest is growing every day. You all, make sure to stay tuned for the next contest you can enter!!
We are grateful to our contest sponsors. The prize is now 93.27 SBD
Thank you @eaglespirit for your donation!!! It is so much appreciated!
You too can donate to the prize - any amount is welcome. Just transfer with a memo: to 200-day celebration.
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Prompt: One Year
- Set your timer for 5 minutes
- Start writing
- Use the hashtag #freewrite
- Publish your piece (include a link to this post if you wish)
Copy and paste your URL into the comment section of the prompt post.
If your freewrite turns into a poem, please use in addition to #freewrite also either #freewritepoetry or #freewritepoetrydigest so we can find you!
- 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 @snook's 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
Check @felt.buzz profile for the ongoing BIRD Freewrite. You can win SBI by commenting and your upvote benefits the Freewrite House. A portion will go there to support the fun and games!
The oh so talented @honeydue is hosting a weekly contest!! RANDOM FICTION CONTEST. Please check her profile for the latest contest post.
Our freewriting friend @hartfloe is hosting a very particular writing contest. Only 1111 characters allowed!!! Join here
@felt.buzz is hosting an ongoing writing contest on zappl!! If you don't know what that is, here is your chance to learn another application to the blockchain. Please check his profile for the latest contest post.
@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.
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/
If your vote is below 0.03 - this is a must read by @thedarkhorse. Vote Dust
This is an initiative called @dustsweeper that is helping all of you [who deal with vote dust](Here is an initiative to help all of you who are dealing with voting dust. find the details here)
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.
Spanish Freewrite Initiative
The Daily Prompt is now also being published in Spanish and a Spanish language community is forming.
@latino.romano is the leader of the community and I am sure, he would love for you to stop by and say hello - in any language. If you are bilingual, please feel free to publish you freewrite in both languages and drop the link at both Daily Prompt posts.
Está publicada la versión en español de hoy @latino.romano
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
I found this app through @emwalker. Use it regularly and it will help you type faster and more accurately. 10 fast fingers
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.
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
@scrooger has a great "help the minnows" project. It is so easy!! Register by leaving a comment for an upvote - or invest into buying a lifetime upvote. A minnow support project brought to you by @scrooger
@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.
@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!!
#newbiegames takes you to all kinds of games and competitions @newbiegames
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 :)
Pssst! It's Friday!
My brain!!!!!!
is this the correct place to leave the link..? lol
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@lucyreloaded/trains-on-a-track-5-minute-freewrite-one-year
It is, thanks for joining us!
Yes, it is :) so glad that you are writing with us!
I'm back again....
NO promises.
I have to be in the mood (groove) - and right now I seem to be....
Herein lies my entry.
Here's mine: https://steemit.com/freewrite/@wordymouth/we-measure-time
I hated my freewrite, but I'm publishing anyways. Hope to have more interesting outcomes in the near future :-). Thanks for hosting: https://steemit.com/freewrite/@michaelluchies/yearly-planning-ramble-5-minute-freewrite-day-225-one-year
https://steemit.com/life/@girlbeforemirror/one-year-five-minute-free-write-prompt
Taking my serialized story off of the freewrite trail and getting back to my other morbid freewrite self! https://steemit.com/freewrite/@byn/the-anniversary-365-marks-on-the-wall
Ohhhhhh. But you are going to continue, right? 3 more to go...... shaking with fear over here...
This freewrite is so amazing and I would like to join too. Please how do I join you?
You set a timer for 5 minutes and start writing anything which pops in your mind for the prompt: One Year. could be one year ago, in one year, it took one year, I/you/he/she have done something for one year.
Then you either
That's it. Looking forward to you writing with us.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@improv/one-year-5minutefreewrite-osis
Have a nice weekend everyone!
My story: https://steemit.com/freewrite/@marie-jay/night-visions-five-minutes-freewrite
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@wonderwop/day-225-5-minute-freewrite-monday-prompt-one-year
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@zingali/freewrite-compendium-1
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@kaerpediem/freewritehouse-party-day-19-at-the-moment-i-cannot-think-one-year-only-one-hour-one-day
aqui mi freewrite de hoy esperando nuevas escrituras rapidas
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@angelina1212/day-225-5-minute-freewrite-friday-prompt-one-year
Another one today, getting back into the swing of things!
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@lazarus-wist/why-didn-t-we-swap-numbers-a-fiftyword-flash-freewrite-13
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@pyrowngs/5-minute-free-write-one-year
Hello... Big Bird is here: https://steemit.com/freewrite/@felt.buzz/more-of-a-rat-a-tat-tat-kind-of-girl-a-five-minute-freewrite-big-bird-24
EDIT
Elma: https://steemit.com/freewrite/@felt.buzz/been-waiting-exactly-one-year-a-five-minute-freewrite-elma-36
Thank you so much for the timely prompt today :)
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@fitinfun/5-minute-freewrite-challenge-day-225-one-year
"Awesome sauce."
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@tristancarax/the-stall-day-43-5-minute-freewrite-friday-prompt-one-year
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Here's my entry
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@lightoj/day-225-5-minute-freewrite-friday-prompt-one-year
I'm here for the prompt "one year":
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@happycrazycon/3wejtd-5-minute-freewrite-prompt-something-she-doesn-t-want-to-recall
Time flies and in a blink of an eye we will say hi to 2019.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@iamjadeline/6-more-months-before-one-year-ends-and-it-will-be-2019-5-minute-freewrite
Another late entry. Life is like that sometimes. This is for the 40% prompt. It is called Skeletons In The Closet
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mr-neil/skeletons-in-the-closet-freewrite-story
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@svashta/wild-west-chapter-9-part-13-5-minute-freewrite-challenge
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mmasim/freewrite-5-min-prompt-one-year
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