Day 22: 5 Minute Freewrite - Prompt: itching
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 @jkiw
Please welcome our newest freewriter - well, it will be a while until he can write :) A huge welcome to little Lochlan and congratulations to the awesome freewriters @stinawog and @improv
Now, on to writing
Prompt: itching
- 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:
If you like this and want more people to come out and play - resteem!
This Week's Plan
We are doing this for 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 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.
Remember to check your voting power. Do not vote for a while if you are under 90!
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Help Our Fellow Freewriter
Our freewriter friend Shary needs our help! Please vote for her comment on this post https://steemit.com/steemsilvergold/@raybrockman/do-you-want-a-bigger-upvote Her name is @sharoonyasir
She is trying to get a delegation of SP and I am sure she will sprinkle the love if she gets it!!
Things you Need to Know About Images in Your Posts
Our freewriter and photographer @dmcamera has written several post on the proper usage of images and how to NOT be a plagiarist. Please, do not steal images!!!!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@dmcamera/hey-steemit-royalty-free-images-are-not-free-images
Just recently, and article was published citing all kinds of free sources for images and here is @dmcamera's response (copied her with permission)
You have some very bad information on here! I need to correct your usage of the term ROYALTY FREE! Royalty free is a type of licensing which allows the licensee to pay only once for the use of an image. They are NOT free images. The images on some of the sites you have found may or may not be FREE , but they are not Royalty free! If they are, then you will have to pay an RF license for each image. Getty Images allows the use of images to bloggers ONLY if an embed code is used. It's not possible to use the embed code on Steemit, so it's impossible to justify using an image from Getty in here! I have made my living from Royalty Free images for many years now, and it is quite demoralizing to read a post that tells the world to take my work for free!!
Check out her profile for more articles and I will link to more in the future.
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
@miniature-tiger
@johnwjr7
All images are my own unless otherwise cited.
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Welcome little Lochlan in this crazy beautiful world! God bless you!
Bravi @improv and most of all @stinawog! Congratulazioni!
Congratulations @stinawog & @improv! Welcome to the world little Lochlan! May your days be blessed with love, laughter, and wonder!
THANKS! He promises to be full of laughter, as he already seems to smile (I know it's not really smiling, but it looks like it) when he farts.
Congratulations @improv and @stinawog!
I was itching to finish this one!
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@miniature-tiger/5-minute-freewrite-prompt-itching
Look at you, punning away.
Congratulations to @stinawog and @improv !
And here is my itchy entry: https://steemit.com/freewrite/@whatisnew/day-25-5-minute-freewrite-callenge-prompt-itching
Yay!
Ahh, welcome to the newest writer on the block, little Lochlan. Congrats @mariannewest I am guessing that is your new baby? As I'm new here I thought I better check and ask :)
not mine :) it is @improv and @stinawog's baby :)
Cool, I'm glad I asked now, well congrats to @improv and @stinawog :)
P.S. I'm going to stop being lazy and do my second freewrite prompt for today's theme in a bit :-)
Yup. Our baby is already writing epics. Unfortunately, he can't hold a writing implement or speak yet, so they're lost in the sands of time. That's ok. All art is temporary. that's what makes it beautiful.
Congratulations are in order @improv and @stinawog :)
Still not myself but here goes https://steemit.com/freewrite/@tezmel/itching-seduction :)
THANKS! We're pretty thrilled so far. Turns out we were getting way more sleep than any human needs. We're making up for that now.
hahaha Welcome to the zombie parent stage :) This too shall pass - in a few years :)
Most welcome! Enjoy every minute you can, they grow up too fast :)
Hi, @mariannewest I attempted a first for me. I write lots of poetry but this was poetry with time constraints and no editing - scary 😬. Here is my entry: https://steemit.com/poetry/@raj808/5-minute-freewrite-prompt-itching
Here is my entry: Itching
Thank you so much for the goat visit!! We all get to share in it. Yay!!
Thanks for highlighting the plagiarism problem and my posts relation to it! My biggest concern (which is not Steemit's) is copyright infringement which is illegal, whereas plagiarism is not. Just giving credit to a photographer removes the plagiarism problem, but not the copyright infringement one. Copyright infringement can cost someone thousands of dollars. On Steemit, people are simply trusted to do the right thing, as no one is policing content. What people need to remember is that Steemit is searchable on the web, so if they are infringing on copyright, they will be found out sooner or later. I simply want to educate people, so that they don't get into big legal trouble!
I thank you for that. I usually use my own pictures because of that - not because they are so great :) It is sometimes hard to know if you are breaking a rule or not..... I am hoping that you will educate us more and more on this. and maybe the steemcleaners as well...
It's refreshing to see your original photography with posts. Steeemcleaners have no power to do anything about copyright infringement. It is up to the the authors to decide whether to take the risk or not. The problem is, Steemit would be legally responsible too because they do not follow the guidelines (like making it clear that copyright infringement is not tolerated and also educating users about it) that sites have to follow to be deemed "Safe harbors" - and that means it would cost ALL of us should there be a big lawsuit. A Safe Harbor has some protection from lawsuits under the law. That's a problem Steemit and all of us may have to face one day. At the moment copyright infringement is rife on Steemit. It would just need one of the large stock agencies to swoop down and, well.........................
This time I enjoyed quite a lot..
https://steemit.com/poetry/@f3nix/itching-day-22-of-the-5-minutes-freewrite