Week - 1/5/2021 - Tell us About a Favorite Freewrite and Win
A New Year, a New Beginning...
Recommend Your Favorite Freewrite Contest
A Favorite Freewrite
Every Tuesday, you have a chance to win a membership to Steem Basic Income - SBI.
Try to win, my friends. SBI is an everlasting vote on your posts - that is nothing to sneeze at.
We also will give you Freewrite House upvotes on your comment.
We want to make this a super easy weekly chance to win for you.
Tell us in the comment section about one - or more- freewrites of others you have read. Not your own!
The comment must be at least 50 words long - no upper limit
Tell us what you liked about the freewrite and why.
See the rules below for details.
- Go to the Daily Prompt post by @mariannewest or the Freewriters Community.
- Read as many Freewrites as you can.
- Tell us about a Freewrite you really liked and why.
- Your comment must be at least 50 words long telling us about the freewrite.
Choose from the last couple of days if possible so others can go, visit, and, inspired by your description, leave a vote.
Win, Win, Win!!!
3 Steem Basic Income from @freewritehouse
One winners will be chosen by random drawing. Our decisions are final.
Let us know if you like to sponsor this contest for additional prizes.
The Rules
This is what you have to do for your chance to win.
- Leave us a comment as specified above.
- Remember, the comment must have at least 50 words.
- Leave a link to the Freewrite you are telling us about.
Here are a couple of free word count tools:
https://wordcounter.net
https://easywordcount.com
https://www.wordcounttool.com
At 8 PM Pacific time the Friday after publishing this post, we will close the contest and draw the winner through a random drawing tool.
Steem Basic Income
Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered through providing regular upvotes to member content.
Finding a Freewrite
If you are not familiar with the daily freewrite prompt and the many wonderful writers who produce the most amazing 5-minute (or sometimes much longer) Freewrites, go to @mariannewest and look for the prompt. The graphics look like this
In the comments, you find lots of links to all kinds of freewrites.
Or search #hive-161155.
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My favorite freewrite this week is by @doppley, using the prompt “live with spirits” and “chalice.”
He gives us a complete short story in his freewrite. I mean that he utilizes (effectively) the technical parts of a well-constructed plot.
In the first paragraph we are given a character with a goal: to win a race maintain his reputation. The character is confronted with an obstacle when it begins to rain, and that obstacle becomes more serious when it turns out it is raining blood. A further complication comes in the form of a screeching voice that knocks him to the ground. He his thwarted in his quest, and we are presented with the major dramatic question of the work: will he be okay?
Perhaps so. In the second paragraph, he wakes up and realizes he had a nightmare. But now he is confronted with new obstacles, which grow in seriousness both within the paragraph and in the story as a whole. The lights are out, he has to go basement (which we all know can be scary in the dark), and then he hears the voice from his dream, but now it is in real life. These increasing obstacles create rising action.
The action rises further in the third paragraph, as his situation becomes increasingly perilous. There is a pattern to the presentation of obstacles: we start with commonplace complications (he's in a dark basement, struggles to find the fuse box, can't find a spare fuse), and then we ramp up to the truly scary when the stairs creak. I don't think a pattern like this is a bad thing; it works; certainly I did not notice it when I enjoyed the story on the first read.
In the concluding paragraph we get a resolution to the rising action in the form of an answer to the major dramatic question, will he be okay? The answer is probably not, and the form the answer takes is both inevitable and surprising. We expect to find out if the voice talking to him is real (inevitable part of the resolution), and it is surprising (horrifying) when he opens his eyes and 'it' is staring back at him.
The writing is clear and concise throughout. This is a good story, and I look forward to reading more of @doppley's work.
Thanks for the honorable mention @cliffagreen. It means a lot coming from you. I must confess, the detailed explanation of my freewrite leaves me in awe. Clearly, you absorbed the content and that gives me great joy :) .
It was excellent practice for me to spend time with your story, and to think about it as a writer. It helped me get moving on a story I was feeling a little stuck on; I had a good writing session this afternoon.
I'm interested in sponsoring this contest.
I can commit to 5 SBI a week. Would I be able to award those directly? And, could it be a separate award; meaning, could I select the 'best' (or my favorite) comment?
I think that is fantastic!! As you can see, this is just getting going on Steem again. Hive has a few more takers.
You could select your own favorite and sponsor for the 5 SBI and the Freewrite house can go with the 3 offered until there is a little more in the wallet...
Thank you so much!
Sweet. It'd be cool to see the community going on Steem again.