Weekend FreeWrite November 25, 2017

Hello, Beautiful Freewriters.

We have been writing together for 37 days now! And magic has happened!!
I feel many of us have become friends and we are getting to know and trust each other. I see lots of encouragement happening and I want to thank all of you who read each other's writing and comment.

Thank You!

I want to thank our fabulous fellow freewriter @wandrnrose7 again! She did an amazing thing last week!
Here is what she wrote:

I was part of the Muxxy and Shane Show mspvaves audience and they do a lottery roll. If you are over 400SP you can't win, but you are able to stand in for another minnow. I chose you. I've been hunting for delegations for you since (@marillaanne) posted about your dilemma. I prayed I'd win for you and I won the first roll. I'm glad that I caught the radio show. I hope one day you can come in and talk about your freewrite prompt! You are most welcome and I know it was well delegated. I believe it will last a month. <3

So grateful!!
Thank you so much @wandrnrose7

And then, I won the Steemusa competition with this article
That gave me another 1000 steempower delegation for four weeks. Thank you to all of you who thought up Steemusa. Check them out @steemusa

This allows me to give all of you an upvote. Not huge. But more than basically nothing like I had before.

The Weekend Freewrite

If this is the first time you came upon one of our freewrite posts click here to read the original post.

If you just want to do the short or single prompt freewrite, click here and use one from the compilation.

This is how the Weekend Freewrite works.

We have 3 prompts to weave into one story. Write for 5 minutes each prompt.

The First Sentence prompt will always have this green graphic.

Then comes the second part - The Interference. This prompt is a new post I will link to this post. Only look at it when you have finished your first 5 minutes.
This will give your story a new direction. Use it. Write for 5 more minutes and somehow connect it to what you wrote before.

The second prompt will always have this graphic with a yellow background.

The third prompt is the Dramatic Twist.

Continue writing where that prompt takes you for 5 more minutes. The Dramatic twist prompt will always have a purple background for the graphic.

As always, don’t judge your writing and just see where it will take you. If you have time and later want to polish your piece, feel free. But remember that part of the 5 minutes deal is to make it possible to do this on a regular basis.

If you rather just stick with one 5 minute freewrite, use any of the previous prompts. Click here.

If you do all three, please post your link in the comments of the third prompt. Use #freewrite and #weekendfreewrite as your hashtags.

Do NOT look for the second prompt until you are done with writing for 5 minute

Prompt

Prompt First Sentence: There were 17 cats living in Larry's basement

Set timer: 5 Minutes

• Write down the prompt sentence: There were 17 cats living in Larry's basement
• This is your first sentence. Continue writing the story presenting itself to you.
• Continue writing without stopping
• Look for the Second Prompt

Find the second prompt here

More Explanation

When we tried this for the first time, I was asked some good questions about this weekend freewrite thing. That made me realize that if you haven't taken writing classes or been around a writing community, this kind of prompt writing might sound very weird.

Here is a bit more of an explanation: The several prompts approach to freewriting is an exercise to force our brains to think out of the box and open new neuropathways. Often, when we start writing a prompt, we write about something familiar.

A second prompt makes us explore a completely new direction and we have to connect that somehow with what we have already written.The prompt might be a sentence we never would write on our own. completely out of character.

The third prompt forces us to once again shift directions and figure out how to bring this story together and to an end.

It is kind of like driving to work on a familiar road. But suddenly, there is a detour and we end up driving through new neighborhoods and seeing all kinds of amazing things we never knew were there.

In life, and especially when writing, we often get stuck in "shoulds." At some point in our lives, we were told by a teacher or parent that a story, or writing, needs to be like...... you fill in the blanks.

Freewriting not only allows but encourages, to break through any boundary or restrictions. We can write about the purple squirrel, the orange unicorn, and even the bananafish. We can create any world we want to.

I used prompts from The Writer's Toolbox for this exercise.

For samples of what a weekend freewrite can look like, check the comment section from last weeks post.

All images are my own unless otherwise cited.

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