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Week 10/01/2019 - Win a Membership in Steem Basic Income - Tell us About a Favorite Freewrite

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@carolkean here

First, a shout-out to volunteers who deliver the new day's prompt

and here's hoping the busy-work will not keep them from WRITING.

@deirdyweirdy, yes, I'm talking to you! One month since your last freewrite…?

And @whatisnew, @wonderwop, @owasco, @fitinfun, and... well, hold on a minute. Let's make this a test.

Have you had someone deliver a prompt in the comment box of one of your posts? Let everyone know who I missed here by commenting below on who else is delivering prompts.

I tried that job for a while, and I can tell you, the Prompt Delivery Team members deserve recognition.

In particular, I am amazed at the time and effort and humor that @wonderwop adds to his prompt deliveries. Animated! Not here (I'm not that talented), but this for example is his graphic/video for the prompt dirt bike (I'm sorry I cant get the animated version to come to life here--but that's all the more reason for you to keep any eye out for @wonderwop and his prompts!):

My second item of business: #Hashtags matter!

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Y'all know that, I know, but some newbies may not. Even some of us veterans may have missed the latest on #oc versus #ocd (no, that one is not for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which, yes, @carolkean manifests daily).

#original-content is a hashtag that alerts @curie to new posts.

There used to be a bot Steemians summoned to ward off cheetah-bot's "original content" disclaimers, but I don't have time to go hunt down what it was. Or still is, for all I know.

If you investigate #oc and #ocd (Operation Curie Delegation), you may also

Visit becquerel.io to see a record of the most recent posts upvoted through Curie curator/reviewer operations and leave thoughtful comments on them for your chance to win!

And now.... The Favorites!

@felixgarciap

Hi friends here is my freewrite recommendation:
My favorite freewrites this weekeend which convey good feelings:
I highlight those that pay homage to their pets

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@wonderwop with a pet attentive to the sound of the bag of chips LOL.

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@iyanpol12, with a sad and nostalgic story, shows us what happens when we get fond of our pets.

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In the freewrite of sightings, I identified myself with the message of @wandrnrose7, with her elegy for the loved one who left.

@wandrnrose7

I would like to share a very evocative poem by @botefarm crafted from the prompt dog whistle. In this poem lies the feeling of helplessness over a person's choice to smoke and the devastating results of such a choice. This poem was well crafted and leaves the reader thinking of choices and their consequences.

@whatisnew

@mr-neil has his own humorous style of writing and when reading his freewrites, you don't even have to look at his user name to know that it was written by him. Check out what he wrote for the prompt 'dog whistle' and I will guarantee that you will end up smiling.

@owasco

I always enjoy @improv's freewrites. Sometimes they are so wackadoo I am seriously jealous - my mind does not let go like that! (OK maybe I am too judgey to let it go so free). This past Monday @improv put out a story with so much packed into those five minutes (?) that my head was awhirl. Napkins left over from the last wedding, a very honest statement about fondant, a business scheme trading derivatives of murder payments, get paid handsomely for the pleasure of murdering safely, and the like.

How on earth is this done? They are always a trip.

@fitinfun

My first recommendation this week is from @myjob, giving us an update on the whole fiasco of the state changing laws for her fishing business:

https://steempeak.com/freewrite/@myjob/free-write-wednesday-prompt-baby-talk

It sounds like a big mess with rich people involved, so this is par for the course.

Next, @mgaft1 tells us he can wreck a moped and about another wreck with someone who was too confident on a dirt bike.

https://steempeak.com/freewrite/@mgaft1/day-713-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-dirt-bike

And finally, @wandrnrose7 has a very affecting short tale of lost love and why it is not always best to rekindle it.

https://steempeak.com/palnet/@wandrnrose7/sightings-bkubvzel

Three very different freewrites. I had a good time looking and hunting for them :)

@iamraincrystal

I look forward to this freewrite recommendation every week. I'm still hoping to win though LOL ^^ Here are my recommendations:
from @kaelci, Wizard's Logic ~ a #wewrite with @ntowl!

I liked this story. I enjoyed reading it. I recommend others to read it as well, so I'm not going into details. Hey, I like raspberries too. LOL! ^^

from @whatisnew

Very brave for writing about and actually taking photos of something that scares her. I'm not too fond of spiders myself. I've also had a few encounters with them. Thankfully, they're not very common where I live.

@marblely

My favourite this week comes from @wonderwop's freewrite to the prompt "several sightings":

@wonderwop has a very good sense of humor in his freewrites and for this one, he coupled it with photos of really cute fellas. I was laughing my head off with the way he described the fellas on each photo. Thank you for making me laugh @wonderwop :D

@carolkean

@fitinfun

never fails to inform and entertain, move, or inspire us!

Her post on UFOs is intriguing, with a great line at the end from a guy in the 'hood where everyone is used to seeing Unidentified Flying Objects.

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Me, I think all UFOs have earthly origins, and I only wish/hope/dream we are being visited by extra-terrestrials. The Foo Fighters of World War II surely had to be the work of mad German scientists, but go ahead, prove me wrong. (Abduct me, take me to your leader, but please return me please and thanks to my family, and if you have to erase all my memories of an alien abduction, well, dang! So much for me daring you to prove me wrong!)

@prettynicevideo

also tackles the hot topic of UFOs:

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Here's one little excerpt that will leave you wanting to know more:

I have seen many UFO's in my life; several sightings and I am sure most have been satellites or government craft. But I did see a UFO once that is still unexplainable to this time. I never gave it a second thought until I had some weird therapy session that medicaid required me to have. Some lady did some hypnotherapy shit. I was telling my sister about it. And that's when she said, "Did anything come out about that UFO thing that happened Halloween in the nineties?"

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Don't take my word for it: click on the image linked above, and it will be animated--AND you will learn more about that 1990s UFO incident!

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@felt.buzz

continues to keep us in suspense with his latest, on-going freewrite series:

This is the freewrite challenge. I am using @mariannewest’s #freewrite prompt to write this piece

Today’s prompt is: civil rights. This is part One Hundred And Eleven of my current freewrite series - I’m calling it RatsNest for now - (posted daily Monday - Saturday).

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Click on that link to get to all the other hundred-eleven freewrites in the series. It takes time to hyperlink even one post, much less that many in a series! If that doesn't inspire you, here is a teaser:

Faver had met so many people when he was younger, from his early days protesting civil rights, and then again when he and Sally joined the Change The System movement. The man was old. Older than Faver, anyway. The way he moved, it was obvious he had problems with his joints.

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@iamraincrystal

delivers a lot of surprises and insights, especially with Weekend Freewrite -9/28/2019 - Single Prompt Option:

"I've always considered myself a dog person," she begins, noting that in her neighborhood cats that have no owners "roam around freely and are like tenants of the building." After starting her "declutter project" (oh the guilt; I need to declutter!), she "had an old yamaha organ placed outside the apartment, waiting to be picked up" by a church organization that runs a second hand bazaar. It took a while before said furniture was removed," and someone else - aka "Mommy cat" - left a surprise in the organ.

@ladyrebecca

earned @curie's attention with this ghost story:

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@curie

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She had me with this line:

You’d think he’s crazy, locking people up and forgetting about them, but that’s not true. He never meant to do that, he was going to save them, at some point.

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And this!

... it’s his fate, his punishment if you want, to wander the halls and face all the ghosts. He can never be free, like they were never set free and whose fault is it?

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Eerie story, well written, with wit and dark humor--and surely one that took more than 5 minutes to write, edit, and post--I approve! #LoveIt!

Another @curie for @deeanndmathews!

And note how many @freewrite members are tagged in this story. In @deeanndmathews's own words:

The frat boys robbed the church on a Thursday, got caught on a Saturday midnight, and are still in jail on a Tuesday, @owasco, @wakeupkitty, @fitinfun, @deemarshall, @iamsaray, @mgaft1, @scribblinggramma, and @whatisnew ... and their relatives are coming to the church to start trouble and instead finding more trouble than they are ready for ... Rev. Joe Baxter ain't exactly Dr. King …

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#WednesdayQuickie

is new to me, but not to Kitty Wu:
@wakeupkitty

How to write a #WednesdayQuickie?
Write down everything you can think of about the current topic within 10 minutes and publish your thoughts with the tag #WednesdaysQuickie.
Prompt: angry.

@carolkean here,
posting a day early (but I can come back later and add more nominations!) because for several days I will be offline and busy with family. Internet access will be hit-and-miss with time stolen from grandkids, and all that.

Note: I'm leaving space for two of our usual nominators. :) No pressure to come through as always, KittyWu and ChireeRocks! I appreciate those who nominate at the eleventh hour so as to make sure the MOST RECENT posts get attention. And upvotes.

@chireerocks

@freewritehouse, Kindly find the below piece for your reference

@wakeupkitty

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Happy Friday from @carolkean!

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