Day 143: 5 Minute Freewrite: Sunday

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Please welcome our newest freewriters!! Visit their blogs and welcome them, please.

Hive account@donnadavisart
Hive account@gjones15
Hive account@denion
Hive account@keithmontallana
Hive account@authorfriendly
Hive account@lilyarcher
Hive account@lunasilver
Hive account@topstoriez

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A huge thank you to Hive account@jyezie aka Hive account@cryptohazard who writes with us but has taken this to another level. He has a bot who is giving votes to the freewriters!! Thank you so much. Big apologies that last week was so busy that I was very behind in my reading.
This post tells us about the bot but is expired now. Please vote on a more recent post.

Thank you so much!!!

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I wanted to remind you that Hive account@papa-pepper's challenge to help Hive account@arbitrarykitten get transportation back. Here is the challenge
Hive account@arbitrarykitten is our freewriting friend and supporter who got into a terrible car accident and is trying to physically recover right now. Her jeep got destroyed in the accident and we, the steemit community, can help her to replace it. Also, please go and upvote her posts.

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Prompt: the military

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 @snooks excellent tutorial on how to join our freewrite adventure

And Hive account@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!

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Contests by our Fellow Freewriters

Our friend Hive account@felt.buzz is on fire!! He is running 2 contests right now. This one is to celebrate 600 followers and is rewarding one lucky reader!! So cool! Check it out
Our freewriting friend Hive account@hartfloe is hosting a very particular writing contest. Only 1111 characters allowed!!! Join here
Hive account@f3nix is still giving away memberships to Hive account@steembasicincome. Check out his profile for your chance to win.
Our funny, talented, intelligent, attractive, modest writing friend Hive account@felt.buzz ( 🤪 😂 😍 who is a great friend) is hosting a 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
Hive account@conradt is hosting a Caption This Contest #captionthis. Find the daily picture to caption on his profile.
Hive account@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.
Hive account@improv is the master of puns! Enter his Punday contest here
The Constrained Writing Contest by our fellow freewriter Hive account@svashta is on! Check his blog for the latest contest. Click here to join
If you like a picture to be the prompt, check out the #365daysofwriting challenge hosted by Hive account@mydivathings. Every day, a new picture to entice you weave a story.

Contests Galore

Hive account@moneyinfant posts a daily update of writing contests!! Go to his profile and start winning :)
Another compilation of all kinds of contests by Hive account@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 Hive account@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 Hive account@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 Hive account@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 Hive account@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
Hive account@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
Hive account@fisheggs - follow this account and you get upvotes at random times.
Hive account@sydesjokes - he rewards his followers with SBD for any kind of interaction with him- comment, vote, resteem.
Hive account@craigcryptoking- he does a giveaway a few times a week. Usually, they involve commenting and/or beer.
Hive account@danielsaori - he does a comment contest. A new challenge every week.
Hive account@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