Day 20: 5 Minute Freewrite - Prompt: Red

Please welcome our newest freewriters @dmcamera @ecoinstant @bashadow and @deaconlee

Many of our freewriters are new to the platform and get very few votes on their posts. Every day, I am inviting you to visit one and leave some comments and votes. Today, please visit @iyanpol12

Now, on to today’s freewrite!

Prompt: Red

• 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:

This Week's Plan

We are doing this for almost 3 weeks now and our numbers have grown! Which is wonderful and I am very excited about this. But, alas, my steam power is not big enough to up-vote all your posts and all the links you leave in the comments of the post.

So, I came up with this plan.

For 7 days, starting Monday, November 6/2017 and ending Sunday, November 12/2017, I will share the SBD payout of the prompt posts with all of you who do the following:

• Post at least 2 freewrites in the 7 days
• Use the prompt - I will not accept posts which have nothing at all to do with the prompt. The idea is to write something new for this challenge.
• Leave a link to your freewrite or copy your 5 minute freewrite in the comments of the prompt.
• You must do all - I can’t hunt you all down to try to count you.
• I will try to leave the next prompt as a comment on your previous freewrite - but no promises. You must look for the daily prompt yourself to make sure you get it.
• I will add up the SBD of the 10 prompts and divide it equally between all who have participated in at least 2 freewrites AND left the link in the comments.

You can post at each prompt until Sunday 7PM PST- that gives you a lot of time to get your 2 prompts in :)

The sharing will happen after the last prompt post-payout. Approx. 7 days after the Sunday prompt posts.

I will try this for one week and see how much work that is for me. We see what next week will bring.

Help Wanted

The post payouts are still pretty low and I see some of you having success with bots and such. Can someone explain to me how they make it work for themselves? Maybe I'll try to boost some of the posts.

Some helpful apps

Have you tried this app yet? The most dangerous writing app One of our freewriters, @valorforfreedom, suggested it.

It is a great app for a freewrite!!! If you stop and think and such, it will erase what you wrote. So, it keeps you on your toes. I find that I am making a lot of typing mistakes, but think that I can slow down a bit more in the future.

And here is another app which is helping me a lot (remember, I am not a native English speaker and there are times when I do mix up grammar rules). This app is called Grammarly and has a free version which is pretty helpful. It points out your mistakes to you :) Here is a link

If you are writing on Steemit, you have to correct your mistakes manually, on busy.org, you can click on the correct version and it will correct the word in your text.

If you like this and want more people to come out and play - resteem!

Remember to check your voting power. Do not vote for a while if you are under 90!
https://www.steemnow.com/

Also, I would love it if you all check out each others #freewrite and spread some love :)

@improv
@ana-maria
@f3nix
@kcoyote
@marcoriccardi
@dennisauburn
@thereikiforest
@jkiw
@shanibeer
@sharoonyasir
@ellievallie
@stinawog
@melinda010100
@snook
@marillaanne
@citizenzero
@yomibolo
@themerrylotus
@theprettysoul
@dswigle
@simgirl
@fitinfun
@whatisnew
@tezmel
@wandrnrose7
@rainbowme
@jjwriter85
@brisby
@creationofcare
@jewels3
@whatilearned
@ackhoo
@sieggna
@topkpop
@bloghound
@omra-sky
@nathanthewise
@janine-ariane
@iyanpol12
@tpkidkai
@littlescribe
@valorforfreedom
@jovema
@long888
@raj808
@dmcamera
@ecoinstant
@bashadow
@deaconlee

A contest You Might Want to Enter

I came across this post. It is a contest you can enter a post you feel is high quality but didn't get much of a payout you wrote at least 30 days ago. If you have one, you could win a reward.

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