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RE: 5 Minute Freewrite #1: Awakening
Hello @wido and welcome to freewrite!
I must inform you that this post does not count because you broke the first rule, this is a five-minute freewrite and it looks like you took eighty minutes to write it! That means that you are simply going to have to repeat your entry and this time use only five minutes. 😄
Just kidding ha ha ha, great job, that was really fun! 👍
By-the-way, we are not much for rules around here except that we demand that you have fun with your freewrites! 😉
Eh eh… busted! ;-) Seriously, are you able to tell how long did it take for me to write it?
I must confess I first wrote it, then I put my baby to sleep, then I came back and read it again before posting it, with minimal changes. I think the whole composition time was around eight minute or so.
My goal is to stay within the five minute mark, but I still need some practice… Thank you for understanding! :D Freewriting is very funny indeed!
LOL, I just added up the timeline that you gave 11:45 - 13:05 which was 1hr and 20 minutes or 80 minutes. 😃
I spend more than 5 minutes sitting down with the prompt figuring out where I'm going to start lol, I can't think of many things, especially complicated things that require any thought, that I can do in 5 minutes or less. I'm pretty sure that I'm one of the slowest people on the planet. 🐢
Just have fun with your freewrites and use them as a tool to spur you to write more, that is the main rule and objective here.
LOL! I'm such a minnow I didn't get the joke!
I bet I am slower than you. And yes, I also develop the idea in advance and then write it. I think it would be impossible to write something meaningful in five minutes otherwise!
For me, it would be. But I just think about the prompt long enough to get something started and then let the story mature from that beginning. I also try to write everything in one sitting without taking any breaks. But everyone here does it differently and to me, that's part of the fun of it.