Congratulations on Day 100 Of Daily Prompts!

Congratulations @mariannewest on your 100th day of Daily Prompts! You built it and we came, in droves. Thank you for all of your hard work, encouragement and for building this amazing freewrite community; this wonderful crazy zoo.

I didn't even know what a freewrite was until I read your post and decided to give it a try. I think everyone remembers their first freewrite. It is similar to your first kiss; nerve-wracking and not knowing how it would turn out, or if it would be accepted. Mine was Day 10: splinter and my first comment came from @snook who told me that I did a great job on my first freewrite. I replied back that I almost didn't post it because I didn't think it was good enough. @snook replied with encouraging words that I will never forget, "There is no good or bad, no right or wrong. Just have fun." Then you, Marianne welcomed me and thanked me for playing. Both of you calmed my nerves and I began to have fun with the rest of my freewrites. It still boggles my mind what freewriters can do with one word or a phrase, and I am always excited to read as many as I can to see where their minds took them with the same word.

Friendships were formed and the freewrite community became my home, in more ways than one thanks to @omra-sky and @snook. Marianne, you are the glue that holds all of us together and thank you for allowing us to be free in every way. Steemit wants creative content and you have brought amazing and endless creativity to this platform.

Just like this dog-day cicada...break out of your shell and be free. This community is open to all. Please join us and have fun!

For those of you who don't know, the beauty of freewriting is that you never know where your mind will take you with each daily prompt and you may end up going on a crazy adventure like I did. I had prior commitments and was not able to do as many as I would have liked. To commemorate this special occasion, I wrote about my adventure with the daily prompts that I used. There is only one rule and that is to use the daily prompt in your writing each day. My freewrites are mostly fiction that started out tame in the beginning, and then they went completely out of control in such a fun way.

MY JOURNEY

My freewrite journey began with a painful splinter that required surgery and then I went to sleep and had the worst nightmare. Next, my crazy nephew's dog, Scooter was flying around on a magic carpet. And with me being a cat, I couldn't pass up writing about a white cat. I drove my kids to a fast food restaurant and my daughter's face was as red as a tomato; I embarrassed her badly, because I gave our dinner order to the trashcan at the dive thru. I explained why the books that I read became empty pages because I could not comprehend what I read. My mind did a dramatic twist when I got the chiggers and the itching drove me mad, and then I ended up on bubbling lava steps that were half frozen; both of which even surprised me. Someone had cast a spell on my Mom that gave her sneezing fits which caused her to lose many a shoe. All of a sudden a mysterious man appeared. He had stuff that would ooze out of his finger that was pricked by a thorn, and he became enraged. A kind old man came to visit; a relative that was losing his senses except for his sense of smell. My great-grandpa's nose took him on a long walk and that was how he met his second wife.

While relaxing at a park, I heard a scream which had me writing a poem about four different screams. Now this is when it began to get crazy. I ended up in a house that was full of hair; cat and dog hair that was kept in jars, and were neatly displayed on shelves by a hoarder. I traveled to Scotland to a medieval castle that was made into a hotel called, Big Wave. The strangest things happened there. Back in the states I wrote about a guy's junk in his trunk and Suzie Rotten Crotch...OMG! I traveled to a different place where I came very close to swimming with the dolphins which was on my bucket list. I came back home to find that the goat ate my elm tree; a sapling, but that was the last straw for that goat named "Billy" and his owner, "Peeping Tom." But I calmed down when I was asked to describe green and I wrote a poem about nature.

I felt compelled to write a story about someone who was pregnant with twins because there were complications. I then found myself driving in a bad storm, ran off the road and ended up in a ditch. When I got out of the car, my shoe got stuck in the mud. I wasn't quite myself that day. Next I was talking about nose hair. I have to admit that I had so much fun writing about nose hair and there was a twist to that one. The next thing you know I saw a big ball of fire in the sky and I began singing, "Great Balls of Fire!" And what a big mess a pill caused on Christmas Eve. You just never know when another freewriter might jump in like @deaconlee did and he turned my 5 minute freewrite into a hilarious story. That was so much fun! On a more serious note, I ended up in a pillow fight which helped me to be the most graceful dancer at the ball. I also became the head analyst which gave me grounding for deciphering the language "Slang" on planet "Derange."

Then I was handed a note that simply stated "Surprise coming to you!" and it sure wasn't what I had hoped for. And the toothache from hell was not something that I liked thinking about. The best decision I ever made was quitting my job because of a callous on my hand. I watched my grandmother sadly reminiscing about her beloved dog "Tootsie" after looking at the lock of her dog hair that she saved. Then I sure did sound like an air-head after talking about all of the different ducks. My MRI was extremely difficult, but all of my freewrite friends were right there for me and helped me to get through it. Marianne was especially helpful by asking the crew to think of a new prompt just for me, and told everyone who gathered around, If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Next, I wrote a poem about how I floss my tears to preserve happiness in a special flask. From happy to scared, I found myself at a hotel desk waiting for the clerk to give me a room. The clerk was wearing an hourglass shaped nose ring and the ending sure wasn't what was expected. It was fun to meet a high school music teacher who did a catchy sound check and had the audience dancing. I then went for a walk and found myself lost in a maze made from the maize in a corn field. And never, in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought that @snook and I would become stranded on the sofa like whales, with a plankton's indigestion. I met two children who became best friends and were married 14 years later. And when I returned to high school after summer break, I was no longer flat as a board and was told that I had blossomed. I was missing my beloved cat, JB and I reminisced about his kiss which was a very special gift that he gave to me every morning for ten years. And I sure was happy with my new glasses that put my life in focus. Finally, I had a blast with a bowl of chocolate candy that I used for sweet revenge.

Thank you Marianne, for sending me on this wonderful, imaginative journey that I would have never taken if it wasn't for you. Oh, the power of freewrites!

Image Source: Dog-day Cicada is mine and the Gifs were provided by @snook.