5 minute #freewrite: That was harder than I expected!

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First attempt

So I’ve been seeing a lot of #freewrite posts during my time on Steemit and Whaleshares. And to be honest, I never wrote one myself simply because my head is always filled with ideas to write about and even tons of concepts that I’ve started writing about. If I would finish all these ideas and projects to write about, I’d be busy the next couple of years. That’s why I write them down or at least start writing a concept, so when the right time is there for that particular idea, I haven’t forgotten why it was such a good idea. Anyway, so I never entered a freewrite before until today. My first attempt to write one started this morning some hours ago. I looked at the clock and new when my 5 minutes were over, but then I needed coffee. And started making it, to realize hmm, time for breakfast too. Then I came back and got distracted by Steemmonsters. Hours later I noticed that I did not write more than 2 minutes and was already doing 5 other things at the same time by now. The first attempt: failed.

Second attempt

That is this one that you’re reading. By now I realized that I really have a problem focussing on one thing and that some ideas get big in my head, but while I think of a few other things at the same day, these things get forgotten. Which annoys me and frustrates me at the same time. So it is time to do something about it. I don’t want to give myself the time of a writing break as I have years of material that has to be written down still, lol. So what to do? Well, I’m challenging myself to start writing again every single day. How?

Before arriving at Steemit, I was a blogger on Yoors (Dutch platform)

And that was actually my first experience with blogging. I had a good practice as I had a nice follower group pretty quickly. And you get paid per view there, which meant I loved the fact that my follower base shared all of my posts repeatedly. Then I got sucked into Steemit, making me sort of forget Yoors. But I have so many nice posts on there, some are offline, but I still have them. And some of them are really worth sharing again, or worth re-writing to post again. As I’m sure my writing skills have improved a lot. So now I will start my day going through my Yoors articles, and picking at least one to read / re-write and publish again. Also, I want to find back that passion I had again. I think that I can achieve that by going through those articles.

Tick tock. The 5 minutes are over and hopefully, you enjoyed my first freewrite a bit.

Much love,

Anouk