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Really? I do appreciate you saying that. I must confess I kind of see the 5 min ones as "filler" The only reason I was able to type as much as I did in that time frame is because I had been mulling over a more serious post.
What do I know though. My favorites were "Enchanted Whispers" and " To Bee Or Not To Bee" I just looked back and those weren't really any better.
That just proves the point you made earlier. Sometimes better results come from just letting it flow.
Hijacker here ;) I agree with Mike. I also adored your post. Isn't it interesting how philosophical one can be under pressure? Really? That happened in 5 minutes. Wow! What is the bee or not to bee about? I did one a couple months back....it was about BEES!!!
Thanks I see some really amazing posts when I read the 5 min freewrites.
I will keep practicing that wolfart seems to think you speed up after a while.
You say that like you already know mine really wasn't lol
Well mine was sort of about bees lol It was a comedy.
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@headchange/to-bee-or-not-to-bee-a-prepper-gift
About bee keeping and life. I just like it because it is silly. I should go find yours. The family really are hoping I will start bee keeping.
I always think I should really try such a 5 minute freewrite sometime, instead of killing all sponatinity by overthinking evefything too much.
Who knows I just do it one of these days - i can imagine it could be very liberating...
The word today is tear for the 5 mon one. Wolfart turned me on to a 30 min one. I like that time frame a lot better. Marrionwest has an awesome little community going on over there @freewritehouse
Makes me want to give fiction a go. That just looks fun.
Same here. I used to write fiction when I was a lot younger. Might be a good w1y to find out if I still have it in me.
But to start with, 5 minutes is more than enough for me. 30 minutes gives me a lot of time to start overthinking again, lol
Well no one would have ever guessed that. Your blog comes across very spontaneous, confident and genuine. Makes it seem like you just sat down and typed it out and set it free. I read backward through a lot of the accounts that I really like.
Seems a lot of folks have an awkward period at first then hit a stride.
In my first months here, I was really focused on what I thougjt people wanted to read. After a while I posted a poem I wrote straight fro the heart. That's when I realized that my previouswritings were all very forced, and not the real.me.
Ever since, I try not to overthink too much, but It's hard. I overthink everything in my life.every know and then I succeed in letting go and just enjoy writing for the act of writing, when I was a kid. But still that's only a small perecentage.
If I succeed, I can personally see a huge difference in.my writing style.
The thing is that my personality has been brainwashed for over 25 years: I've been taught that whay other people think of me is important. Believe me, that really doesn't help when you want to be spontanious.
I've bedn trying to get rid of that stupid idea that has been planted in.my head for years, but it is hardet thanI could have ever imagined.
But I'm.learning, and every week I manage to care less.
Wait, I think I can find the post in which I realized that I had been so brainwadhed by writing marketing sales pitches, that I had copletely forgotten I used to simply enjoy writing when I was younger.
That post was the first one that made me realize I had to change my ways...
(Be right back - it's one that was written on my old account. It shouldn't take a long while to find it...
Here it is: https://steemit.com/steemit/@mike314-0005/the-negative-effect-of-steemit-on-my-self-esteem)
Oh my wow I didn't even click the link yet. I just had a malor insight. I have been trying to figure out what it is inside of me that makes me so uptight about posts. We all know I have lots to say, coment history proves that.
What you just said
I have been selling one thing or another for decades. Many times survival depended on it.
I am going to let that just sink in a bit while I click your link.
Thanks