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Please welcome our newest freewriters @isaganispeaks @arkayani

Every day, I am inviting you to visit one and leave some comments and votes. Today, please visit

Prompt: Awakening

This prompt is inspired by @f3nix

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 @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.

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. It helps you to grow to vote wisely!!

And here is a counter opinion on voting by our freewriter @improv

This post is talking about using your vote for maximum curation and our fellow freewriter @miniature-tiger won that week!! He knows how to do this! Congrats! Read the post here

Contests

The Constrained Writing Contest by our fellow freewriter @svashta is on! Click here to join
@miniature-tiger is starting 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!
The pink rabbit contest is hosted by our freewriter friend @janine-ariane
@improv is the master of puns! Enter his Punday contest here
Our fellow freewriter @slhomestead started this fun contest . It is in the second week now and you can win an illustration for your story. I won for Oh Tannenbaum. Love it!!
300-word-story- contest by @swissclive Here is your chance to use your freewrite to possibly win a nice fat upvote - and I mean fat. Nothing like my measly ones...
If you like a picture to be a prompt, check out the #365daysofwriting challenge hosted by @mydivathings. Click here for a recent link

Staying Legal

This is an excellent article by @dmcamera on how to use images legally. A must read!!

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!

DTube

The challenge is to read your freewrite and make a video of it. Please feel free to edit your stories as much as you wish.

Here is the challenge video
@felt.buzz https://steemit.com/dtube/@felt.buzz/0viza9es
@mariannewest https://steemit.com/dtube/@mariannewest/i57961gs
And @snook has a lot of them. So good!!

Just remember that Dtube is still in Beta and sometimes things don't work. Just come back after a little while and try again... and drop a link in the comments so I can feature you in the new Dtube section of the prompt.