Day 103 - 5 Minute Freewrite: Tuesday - Prompt: cracker

in freewrite •  7 years ago  (edited)

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Prompt: cracker

Set your timer for 5 minutes
Start writing
Use the hashtag #freewrite
Publish your piece (include a link to this post if you wish)

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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!

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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.

Contests

If you come across any other contests the freewriters might want to enter, please let me know!

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!

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 @abh12345 Read the post here

Money

There are several people who offer SBD for free on this platform! How great is that!!

Here are a few

@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.
@craigcryptoking- he does fairly regular giveaways.
@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!!

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!
Here is the link to join . https://discord.gg/zfXNRnK

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I wish I could submit properly but again... I ran out of bandwidth! Ooops!.

But I wanted to get involved anyway so here's my 5 minute #freewrite for the prompt 'Cracker' made using The most dangerous writing app

Thanks again for this... What a gem to find on my first day with Steemit :)

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'Cracker' Free-Write -

Crackers. Crackers come in all sorts of varietys. The type you eat can be tasty. Sometimes they may tell a fortune inside. Or have an important message for you. Sometimes crackers explode and make really lloud noises. Very often they may be used in celebrations. Or as a scare tactic. One of the most ancient human fears is that of loud noises. Everything cracks eventually. Even the most solid and stable structures will eventually crack and crumble and fade away. Everything changes. A cracker is a good example of high to live life in high energy before exploding back into nothingness from whence we all once began. It's the ability to live with passion. Live loud and live proud. To sound amazing and live life with a bang. To get others attention. To rouse them up. To awake them from their slumbers. The job of the cracker is actually an imporant one. I believe to some degree I am a fire-cracker too... I came here to attempt to wake up - You. And that's exactly what I plan to do... Just keep on making noise and spreading words and wisdoms and messages to the world until eventually we all stur from our slumber and remember the truth of it all - that we are one, we are god, we are creators, we are infinitely powerful, we are infinite, we are light and love and all the elements from below and above and we have the power to create any existence we want. We can create peace if we choose. We can also cfreate war. The choice is ours. But if we work together. If we realise that unity is not only possible but it's actually the only possibility to ensure the survival of our race... then it becomes obvious what we need to do next. The solutions to our problems suddenly become clear. New ideas are sparked as inspiration flows into the collective consciousness and working together we can devise all the solutions that we need to ensure we survive on this beautiful planet we call Earth.

The fire burns strong in your words, my crackers are charred! ;)
Welcome on board!

Thank you my friend... your fiery words mean a lot to me!! ;)
Thanks for the support! <3

There's a lot of Truth in this little piece. Thanks for sharing!

The choice is ours. But if we work together. If we realise that unity is not only possible but it's actually the only possibilissues
ensure the survival of our race... then it becomes obvious what we need to do next.

Check out @jrswab he has a new contest to help new minnows with bandwidth issues with a delegation if you win.

Thanks so much for reading and letting me know your thoughts... I'm really glad you found some gold in it... So glad to be getting back into free-writing! These prompts are amazing <3

I will check him out for sure... thanks so much for the tip. So much to learn here!
With love
Hart Floe
<3

Thank you for sharing this.

“Solutions to our problems suddenly become clear.” Yes! Our Mother is constantly guiding the way and all we have to do is recognize that we already know the answer.

Beautiful writing piece. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for reading it and commenting... it's so true.. all the wisdom we need is already within us!

<3

How do you run out of bandwidth?

No idea ha.. I didn't know that was a thing I guess... My first day I upvoted a lot of stuff I liked, followed a lot of people and resteemed a few posts... maybe not the best starting out strategy haha! warning complete n00b alert haha

I barely remember, but I think we had 10 votes a day when we started, so try your best to make posts and comments without upvoting. It is hard especially if you are coming from a site like FB where we would like every thing. :)

Ha yeah definitely requires a shift in mentality! Thanks for the useful information :)
Hart Floe
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We still have 10 votes a day if you want a full recovery within 24 hours :)

Well, 10 votes evenly spaced out. If you make them all at once, they'll take less than 24 hours to recover.

Nope, they take 24 hours :) if you go to steemworld.org it gives you a nice little clock that shows you how long it takes to recover. If you space them out, each vote has the highest value. Your 100% vote value goes down as your voting power goes down....

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I think you understand, but you said nope... if you make them all at once, you'll use up less than 20% of your voting power. The first vote is worth 2%, but the next is 2% of your remaining voting power, so only 1.96%... and so on. Which means after 10 votes (if you made them all at once - within a negligible timeframe) you'd still have more than 80% voting power, which takes less than 24 hours to recharge...

This is what the article I wrote was about. There's a misunderstanding amongst many Steemians about how VP usage and recharging works.

No, but he's saying he ran out of BANDWIDTH, not VP. I think it has to do with how much you're uploading, like if you put a lot of pictures on the blockchain probably?

I think it is a new thing. Basically, when we started, we all got a delegation to - I guess - give us some bandwidth. The, they took that away since now, there are many more accounts. It really doesn't make complete sense to me, but the less you have in your account, the less bandwidth you have and can post and vote and comment.
If you go to https://steemd.com/@ and add your name, it will show you how much bandwidth you have...

I remember it always being there as long as I've been on, but I never had any problems. But also, I never uploaded any pictures.

I saw an article yesterday and will try to find it....

That's a great article!

Thanks for sharing and Welcome to Steemit!

Thaaaank you... such a warm welcome from a loving community... so glad to be here! Means a lot to be making some friends :)

With love
Hart Floe
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I liked your volcanic flow of thoughts. Everything changes, Heraclitus, one of my favourites!

I came here to attempt to wake up -You

Okay.. enlighten us sleepy beings! 💡🤔

Thank you! I love free-writing so I'm really happy to have found a whole community around it!

That's what I'm here for! Not to enlighten... just to enliven ;) I think if we all focus on enlivening ourselves and each other... well... we'll naturally become enlightened :D

Thanks so much for reading and commenting... totally new here so great to start making some friends :)

With love
Hart Floe
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  ·  7 years ago 

I am wide awake now... 😁
Love the way you write this piece!
Let's work together to make this world a better place... Spread love, joy, smile and positive energy! 💕💗💖❤️

Aw thank you :D I really glad you enjoyed it... and it means a lot to be that you commented with these beautiful world...

I will continue to keep spreading love, joy, smiles and positive energy... and I am sure you will too ;)

With love
Hart Floe
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  ·  7 years ago 

❤️💖💗💕👍💪😀

Brilliant freewrite! Love the way it flows. :)

Thank you my friend! I really enjoyed writing that... Well actually I really enjoy free-writing in general! So glad to have found @mariannewest and to now be prompted each day to do this... So much love!

Thanks a lot for reading and commenting :) Means a lot to a noob like me!

With love
Hart Floe
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It is my hope that we all get it together and find the solutions!! I am very glad that you found us on day one of your journey!!

Me tooo!! Such a good place to be :D Thank you again!

Hey my dear friend. Another prompt that are killing me 😂😂hahaha
I feel like I just can't be serious and just get all crazy.... But I'm having so much fun.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@saffisara/cracker-or-5-minutes-freewrite-day-103

Crazy is the best!!! You are among likecrazy likeminded people!!!🤪

And thank you so much for your second gift!! You are awesome!!

Yes crazy is fun and I'm happy to be among you Awsome like minded people 😁😉 lol
Your Awsome my friend and who would have thought sass would be freewriting.. Not me
😁lol but now I can't seem to stop even if I sometimes feel like..... ohh no what did I just published? 😂
My pleasure this is so worth it and you will se more of the gifts cause who doesn't like to donate to good causes.
Have a wonderful evening dear 🤗

Here's mine for today :D
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@svashta/wild-west-part-22-5-minute-freewrite-challenge

Googled cracker to find if there's any other meaning to it beside the food... Still decided to go with its food meaning... haha :D

Now that cracked me up. Was going to say crackered me up, but too cheesy lol.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Hi Hi Hi @mariannewest! Shouldn't this one be Day 103? Day 102 was paint, right?
Anyway, here's my submission for cracker - Chinese New Year 2018

I just noticed that too. I should stop doing these prompts so late at night!! Actually, I better do it right now :)

I had to change my title too! Lol.

  ·  7 years ago 

👍👌

very good...

Good morning, my beautiful friends.
Today I have part 3 of a jungle picaresque.

Here is the invited to write something about freewriting posts post: https://steemit.com/freewrite/@improv/on-freewriting

And here's today's freewrite:

https://steemit.com/freewrite/@improv/cracker-5minutefreewrite

Here is my freewrite today, and no monkey business included. :-)
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@pixiehunter/5-minute-freewrite-tuesday-cracker

this post is very useful friend.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Crack, crack, crack. Here's mine for day 103:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@iikanji/us-crackers-freewrite-prompt

I really enjoyed today's prompt (and the happy little story it lead me to write):

Cracker.

https://steemit.com/freewrite/@wonderwop/maxine-our-little-yoda

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I'm still looking for a writing partner Option 3 ~ Steemit Chat, if possible.

I will. But I have to figure out how to get into steemchat. I think I signed up, but have to find my password and such :)

Really!!! I would be honored to finish one of your stories. 😘

I left my part on one of your other posts :)

Anyone ever hear of the saltine challenge?
https://steemit.com/busy/@snrm/day-22-of-free-write-cracker-prompt

hahaha - I have a feeling we will....

Hey, hey, hey! I took your advice and the ideas flowed like melted butter :D Felt so good after rattling out another freewrite short story. I needed that, so thanks! https://busy.org/freewrite/@jedau/cracker-5minutefreewrite

I am glad you did!! this really is the magic of the freewrite - to just go and be okay with it that sometimes, just nothing much comes of it :)

In this case though, quite a lot came from it hahaha! I'm sure my next freewrites wouldn't be as meaty, but this one turned out like my freewrites of old.

Hy there @mariannewest, here is my first try at freewriting, hope I did good :)
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@zen-art/the-cracker-5-minute-freewrite

I've only now discovered this challenge and I'm very excited to try. Here's the link to my first freewrite post. Hope there will be many more to come!
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@marie-jay/late-at-night-5-minutes-freewrite-day-103

Greetings, here I bring you an opinion about cookies, I hope you like it. I will read and vote
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@hernandezch/the-crackers-help-the-food-of-the-peoples