Over 20 Club - Reflections

How do I look back on all of these words?

This week, I was tagged by Hive account@mariannewest to participate in the Over 20 Club, an opportunity for members of the #freewrite community who have written over 20 posts to look back on our journeys and share some of our favorites along the way.

I’ve written before that I’m very free with my definition of what makes a #freewrite. I don’t time myself, and I don’t post unedited stream of consciousness writing.

To me, writing freely takes on a different meaning - creation for its own sake.

I take these prompts and I get to play with them, exploring essence, feeling, concept and mood to create slices of life that exist within themselves. Reality bubbles, as someone once called them.

These stories don’t always have plots, and the characters don’t always have names, but whatever I capture in the abstraction remains.

I’m grateful for all of these inspirations, but the #freewrite community has given me more than that. I met Hive account@mariannewest when she and I were both nominated to participate in the Minnows Accelerator Project created by Hive account@rycharde. She won the delegation competition, and even at the time I thought she deserved it more than I did.

Everything she has done since only deepens that impression. This woman is a true community leader, and I have a lot of respect for her. She’s posted 124 days of #freewrite prompts at the time I am writing this, and each post is filled with a daily digest of things worth noticing on Steemit.

I was also introduced to the Hive account@isleofwrite, a gathering place for writers of all sorts, whose Discord server even has a dedicated channel for #freewrite discussion!