Day 214: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: home alone
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Poetry Digest
Our talented Poet @wandrnrose7 is watching your freewrites all week for poems to feature in her Sunday Digest. Many of you are featured this week. Please visit your fellow writers and poets and give them some love!
The Poetry Digest Edition Six
The Interview Series - Meet @Marcoriccardi
If you have been freewriting for a while, you have met @brisby. She is coordinating the freewrite encouragers and delivering prompts to your freewrite on a regular basis. And, she is bringing you fantastic interviews with Freewrite Community members.
This interview features @Marcoriccardi. He comes on a regular basis to you as well bringing you the newest prompt. Marco has been a freewriter from the beginning and you really want to get to know him.
Hint: after reading all about him, check out the selfie contest and see if you can find him 😄
The Selfie Party is so much fun!!
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Prompt: home alone
- 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.
- 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
@kaerpediem, our fellow freewriter, has a really fun contest going you all want to check out!
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 #2
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. Details here
@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.
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
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This is a short one though, but you might find it interesting lol. @mannyz
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mannyz/what-my-home-means-to-me
suerte amigo me gusto tu freewrite
muchas gracias por pasar, lo aprecio
In under the wire as always
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@deirdyweirdy/home-alone-a-five-minute-free-write
Hi there! I've just had a few days off - here's todays' freewrite :-)
Happiness to all...
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mysecondself01/freewrite-day-214-home-alone
First time to join this and I like freewriting. I hope I did it right https://steemit.com/freewrite/@queendom/home-alone-5-min-freewrite
Hello world, hello greatness.
How are we today.
Here is my entry.
https://steemit.com/freewritepoetrydigest/@rabiujaga/day-214-5-minute-freewrite-monday-prompt-home-alone
Hi everyone, happy start of the week, here's my post.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mlyrg/5-minute-freewrite-monday-prompt-home-alone
My entry
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@botefarm/the-search-for-a-nanny-day-214-5-minute-freewrite
aqui mi frewrite espero lo difruten tanto como yo ansiando mas esritura rapida suerte a todos saludos @mariannewst
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@angelina1212/day-214-5-minute-freewrite-monday-prompt-home-alone
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@zingali/freewrite-15-home-alone
Please check it out.
https://steemit.com/fiveminutesfreewrite/@ladybirddd/home-alone