Day 411: 5 Minute Freewrite: Wednesday - Prompt: inbox

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Most of you have seen me use this tag #thealliance.

Until very recently, you had to go through an application process to be part of the family. Things have changed a bit. Find out in this post how you can become part of the Alliance

If you are community oriented and like to support each other - that is the right group for you.

The Alliance has supported the Freewrite House for a long time - and guess what. We even have a Freewrite House room in the Alliance discord. Please do check it out.



Make sure you particpate in Recommend Your Favorite Freewrite and win SBI

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Please give them some love.

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Prompt: inbox

  • Set your timer for 5 minutes
  • Start writing
  • Use the hashtag #freewrite and #freewritepoetry if it turns out to be poetry
  • 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.

If your freewrite turns into a poem, please use in addition to #freewrite also either #freewritepoetry or #freewritepoetrydigest so we can find you!

  • 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.

Here is @snook's excellent tutorial on how to join our freewrite adventure

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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Contests by our Fellow Freewriters

If you are running a contest let me know, I will list it here 😄

Ongoing Contests by supporters of the Freewriters

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Let's Do Community!!!

As many of you know, we have a Spanish speaking Freewrite effort going on. The fearless leader is @latino.romano who is putting a lot of effort into building the Spanish language community. Thank you!!

But that is not what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about Venezuela.
If you listen to the news at all, you know that the country is having a lot of difficulties right now - and many are suffering.

I know that we can't change the country or help all that are suffering right now. But we can help our Freewrite Community members - at least a little bit.
Please, upvote the following people as often as you possibly can!

@milrosas
@cefralelo
@larryparra
@oscarina
@jakim7
@latino.romano
@teresah
@seifiro
@dranuvar

And try to sponsor them into SBI.

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  • We are thinking of doing a collaboration workshop on how to get a manuscript ready for publishing. Let me know if you are interested - both, to either share your expertise and/or to learn... Starting in either December or January.

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If you have a business on Steem you want to share, let me know. I will start a dedicated section in the resource portion of the prompt posts.

  • @ntowl has started a new business here on Steemit you might be interested in. She is offering editing and formatting services for your posts at a very reasonable price.
    If you want your posts to shine, @ntowl can help.
    Check out her post here

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Spanish Freewrite Initiative

The Daily Prompt is now also being published in Spanish and a Spanish language community is forming.

@latino.romano is the leader of the community and I am sure, he would love for you to stop by and say hello - in any language. If you are bilingual, please feel free to publish you freewrite in both languages and drop the link at both Daily Prompt posts.

Está publicada la versión en español de hoy @latino.romano

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A Contest I found You Might Want to Enter.

  • An easy contest to win SBI. Just leave a comment. It is called: Steem Basic Income 72h Raffle and repeats on a regular basis. Visit @elleok and find the latest raffle.

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Voting

Remember to check your voting power.
https://www.steemnow.com/ or use https://steemworld.org/

  • I am not sure if the following is still correct.
    If your vote is below 0.03 - this is a must read by @thedarkhorse. Vote Dust

This is an initiative called @dustsweeper that is helping all of you [who deal with vote dust](Here is an initiative to help all of you who are dealing with voting dust. find the details here)

Also, check out @dustbunny - it is structured differently with the same goal in mind

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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

  • I found this app through @emwalker. Use it regularly and it will help you type faster and more accurately. [10 fast fingers](https://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english

  • The 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.

  • If you know of other helpful tools or people, please share with us!

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Money

There are many contests on Steemit. From art to music to writing and everything in between. Enter as many as you can!! And take advantage of the free money people give away I listed in the money section below.

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

Here are a few

  • @scrooger has a great "help the minnows" project. It is so easy!! Visit his profile for details.
  • @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.
  • @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!!
  • #newbiegames takes you to all kinds of games and competitions @newbiegames

These options cost you a little bit, but your return is manyfold and I highly recommend that you consider them.

  • @qurator is an initiative to support steemians who post good content. There is an initial sign up fee of 4 Steem. Your account will be checked and if approved, you will make that 4 steem back in the first month through qurator upvotes. Check their account and discord for more details.

  • @thundercurator is a human resteem and upvote service. Check out their posts for more details.

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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

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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! Join us now!!!

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I think this is two today :)

https://steemit.com/esteem/@fitinfun/freewrite-day-411-inbox

Thanks for the head's up about the alliance - also steembloggers. I need to get on the stick here and do better :)

My voting power varies from 0.01 to 0.02, but every day I vote anyway until I fall below 90%. I've heard both sides, to vote or not to votes, and I elect to vote - until someone convinces me otherwise.
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!

I think now, with the RC, some of the newer people can only do a few things every day - either post and comment or vote. In that case, not voting and commenting is much better. once they have about 50 to 100 SP, they can do much more.
I vote every day as well and let my vote recover - I hardly ever reach 100%. I start voting again when I am at 99.8 LOL

You do the same thing I do then - and my account has grown beyond 100 SP, so I guess it's not causing any deficits or disasters anywhere. Rarely do I get up to 100 for voting. ;)

Your voting is never going to diminish the Steempower you have. That, you get from other people voting for you.
And your steempower controls how much voting power you have. The more steempower in an account, the higher the possible vote.

You voting diminishes your voting power. Lets say your vote is worth 0.10 at 100% voting power. At 80% (10x 100% votes given out) it might only be worth 0.08. If you keep going, let's say you vote 100 times more that day and now your voting power is at 10% , your vote is maybe only 0.01

(the numbers are not correct - just as an example)

If you had 100 Steempower in your account when you started voting, you still have 100 in your account when you are finished.

Hope that helps.

Thanks! I'm embarassed to be so slow at grasping all the $$ and #numbers and will go power up soon...

Don't be. this platform is really set up for developers and gigs that already understand that kind of language - the computer language. Not for people like us that grew up writing words on paper with a pen LOL

But the little I know, I am happy to share and never, ever hesitate to ask. And maybe, someday down the line, we will have a platform that is easy to use.... Until then, never feel embarrassed not to know things. And keep in mind that the minute we think we understand how this platform functions - something changes 🤪

Good to hear. Meanwhile, I'm staring at the wallet, which says "balance 46 SBD" and enter the amount to power up... so I should enter $45 or something...? THANK YOU Marianne!

Hi there, its good to see you helping so many people :) More power to you

Thank you so much!

You're welcome :) Good day

Here's mine for the prompt Inbox: Put it into Inbox C

Hi Freewriters, I difted away from you all but @mariannewest gave me a little nudge to return, so here is todays:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@jk6276/day411-5-minute-freewrite-wednesday-prompt-inbox-1544049858837

Have a nice day,
John.

Here is the link to my post for today's prompt - Indox. Thanks.
https://steempeak.com/@shanedustin/the-letter-freewrite-challenge-inbox

Here's today's prompt @shanedustin, I'm not on steempeak. 😿

🎅Bruni bringing gifts of joy in today's prompt!
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https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day412-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-boxer

I didn't even know about Steempeak until someone told me about it. I like it better, I can navigate better. Thank You

Here is my take on inbox. Have a great day/night. Thank you.

here is my link [thanks so much to the resident @freewriterhouse angel @wonderwop who let me know I dropped the wrong link! ❤🤗
my link:

https://steemit.com/freewrite/@wandrnrose7/mute-them-mpp5wh0z

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