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You can earn up to 5 SBD per accepted submission for guest curating The Daily Sneak. Submission requirements are published at the bottom of each edition of The Daily Sneak.

We would like to welcome a new first-time guest curator today, @wordymouth! Here is how @wordymouth introduced himself:

I come across as a bombastic know-it-all you can't seem to ever shut up. Of course, I just see myself as a Renaissance man who has a lot of interests that seem to intersect with many people. I also dabble in fiction writing.

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Cheating the System - Short Story

Ten years ago, high speed chases were all the thing on cable news. They sometimes would go on for hours with commentary! High speed chases still fascinate me and Los Angeles seems to have the best ones. The local TV stations still follow these chases through the gridlock of the 405 or 5 and I catch them streaming. America also has a gun Gordian knot with some saying lock them all up and others screaming read the Bill of Rights. Personally, I believe it comes down to mental health: if a person wants to do damage they will.

@breezin takes us down the freeway until we meet a dangerous person driving a car in a reckless manner. And then the police give chase, finally catching the driver down the road. As the driver jumps out of the car, he begins shooting at the police with a slingshot and some marbles! Incredible. I suppose anyone hell bent on a destructive path will find a way to let others know they are hell bent of achieving pain. Too bad @breezin took off; her sense of preservation kept us wondering. Mystery is often good for a reader. It causes us to hold onto the story.

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My soul is a church you don't want to walk in - Day 117: 5 Minute Freewrite

The idea of #Freewrite is to give yourself 5 minutes to just write. Honestly, if you are feeling tired, this exercise can seem like a large boulder in the middle of the road. You are unable to pass. So you write and hope something comes of it.

@f3nix does just that and freely admits to just writing ideas down as they splash on the page. There is also energy and honestly here. The writer ends up making us feel like we have sat outside a church in the center of a small town square and watched individuals enter the sanctuary. Each person has a different idea of how the church has helped them.

This also brings me back to the start: a writer must evoke an emotion in the reader. All of the things @f3nix writes carries with it a revelation of self. We feel the writer's ethos. This is another example of how to make writing pop off the page.

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Conclusion

What a great first entry from @wordymouth! I really enjoyed these selections. Unfortunately, his other choices were too close to payout before I could highlight them. I really hope to see more selections from @wordymouth in the future! For submitting these selections and commentary, @wordymouth gets paid 2 SBD today.

That's more than $10 USD!!

Each of these highlighted articles receives full upvotes and resteems from @sneakyninja. As an added bonus, @sneakyninja sponsors featured writers for Steem Basic Income!

Submission Requirements

1. You can choose from 2 to 5 articles for your entry. Submissions with only one selected article will be ignored.
2. All articles chosen for curation need to have been published within the last 5 days before your entry. It may take time for me to publish your curation, and curated articles need to be within the reward window when your submission is published.
3. You cannot submit your own post for curation. Selections from nsfw will not be accepted.
4. Selected posts should have less than $50 in total rewards and have not previously been curated by The Daily Sneak.
5. We try to spread the love around, so while selections from authors that have been highlighted before are welcome, they might not be included if the author's last inclusion was recent. Similarly, if you include two articles from the same author in one submission, we will typically highlight only one of the two.
6. Be sure to include your personal bio for me to introduce you to readers, and make sure that each selection has commentary. This can be just a few sentences about why you think the selection is worth our attention, or what is great about it - something that will make people want to click through the headline and check out the actual article. English is preferred, but other languages will be considered as long as English translation is included.
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If you include more than 2 articles in your submission and not all are approved for publication, your submission may still be published into an edition of The Daily Sneak, as long as at least 2 articles are approved. This could happen for several different reasons. If you are unsure why an article was cut, please review the submission guidelines again. If you are still unsure, feel free to ask politely why it was cut.

Submission Reward

A brief biography of each guest curator will be included in the edition that uses their submission. In addition, each guest curator will receive 1 SBD for each article from their submission that is highlighted in The Daily Sneak. That's up to 5 SBD for each accepted submission!

Right now @sneakyninja's upvote is not worth as much as we are paying for guest curation. Why do we pay so much for guest curation? We believe that quality curation is very important to Steem. Paying our curators well encourages them to spend more time reviewing content and picking out the best pieces!

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