So much going on at the Freewrite house!!!

• Winner announcement for Recommend a Freewrite Tuesday
• Get to know @honeydue through this wonderful interview by @brisby This will take you right to it!

200 Day Party!!!!

Day 200 Party has begun!!

The prize keeps growing!!! You want to be part of it. And just for registering, you will be part of a drawing for a SBI membership Sunday night!!

Win 24+ SBD and SBI memberships!!!

The prize is over $ 24 SBD and growing!!!

We are adding half of the SBD payout of all 200 Day contest posts to the Prize!

We are grateful to our contest sponsors
@dynamicgreentk
@simgirl
@tristancarax
@mariannewest

You too can donate to the prize - any amount is welcome. Just transfer with a memo: to 200-day celebration.
SBD will be added to the SBD payout. Steem donations will increase the SBI memberships we give out.

Important!!

There are a couple of things you have to do for admission to the party. Run on over to the Freewrite House and check it out. Prepare to stay for a while!! We are going to have fun!! did I mention that we are going to have fun? Yes!!! Tons of it!!!

We suggest you register - even if you don't think that you can participate much. Nobody can join after this Sunday evening, 5/13/2018 PDT.

What are you waiting for? Rush on over to the Freewrite House!

Watch this space for Freewrite House News!!!!

Remember - if you don't have at least a $ 0.03 vote, do not vote on comments. Your vote will not count. It get's rounded down to 0. @snook tried it and I am as well. We wanted to be sure.

As I travel around Steemit, I am seeing so many wasted votes. Please, let each other know and if you can, top off a below 0.03 comment to bring it to payout.

Prompt: back pain

• Set your timer for 5 minutes
• Start writing
• Use the hashtag #freewrite
• Publish your piece (include a link to this post if you wish)

Copy and paste your URL into the comment section of the prompt post.

• Or, if you don't want to publish your freewrite, just copy and paste as a comment under the prompt post.

If you don't know what a freewrite is, here is a link to the introduction post.

Here is @snook's excellent tutorial on how to join our freewrite adventure

And @improv's input:

Two things I do a little differently. I just type "timer" into google and it pops up a 5-minute timer. I also type directly into steemit. I also rarely use a photo, don't I? So that's three things.

Please read, comment and vote (if you have voting power) on each others freewrites as much as you can. Especially if you are new to the platform, you will be surprised how many friendships are formed by reading and commenting on each other's work!

Contests by our Fellow Freewriters

• Check @felt.buzz profile for the ongoing BIRD Freewrite. You can win SBI by commenting and your upvote benefits the Freewrite House. A portion will go there to support the fun and games!

• The oh so talented @honeydue is hosting a weekly contest!! RANDOM FICTION CONTEST #2

• Our freewriting friend @hartfloe is hosting a very particular writing contest. Only 1111 characters allowed!!! Join here

• @felt.buzz is hosting an ongoing writing contest on zappl!! If you don't know what that is, here is your chance to learn another application to the blockchain. Details here

• @improv is the master of puns! Enter his Punday contest here

• The Constrained Writing Contest by our fellow freewriter @svashta is on! Check his blog for the latest contest.

Voting

Remember to check your voting power. Do not vote for a while if you are under 90!
https://www.steemnow.com/ or use https://steemworld.org/

If your vote is below 0.03 - this is a must read by @thedarkhorse. Vote Dust

Here is an excellent article explaining how to maximize your vote by @taskmaster4450. It helps you to grow to vote wisely!! And a more recent one

And here is a counter opinion on voting by our freewriter @improv

This post is talking about using your vote for maximum curation. Thank you, Asher @abh12345 Read the post here

Bandwidth Problems

I know that many of you are very new to the platform and your wallets are pretty empty. Believe me, we all started there!! Here is an excellent article which explains what bandwidth is and why you might have a hard time logging in some days - or posting. Thank you @jrswab for this explanation

There are many contests on Steemit. From art to music to writing and everything in between. Enter as many as you can!! And take advantage of the free money people give away I listed in the money section below.

Writing help

• A free app: Grammarly. A lot of us are not native English speakers and I am finding it a helpful app. It will underline spelling and grammar mistakes. Just remember that is is not always right -especially if you use complex sentence structures. Here is the link

• Remember The Most Dangerous Writing App. You set the time - 5 min - and start typing. Don’t stop!!! It will destroy what you wrote if you stop for more than 3 seconds - and backspace does not count as writing on the app. If you are prone to stop and think - this app forces you to keep going. You can make corrections after the 5 minutes are over.

• A timer. Egg timer is a free tool you can use on your desktop to set a time. This is useful for our freewrites or if you want to work in blocks of time and then take a break. Here is the link

• I found this app through @emwalker. Use it regularly and it will help you type faster and more accurately. 10 fast fingers

• Our fellow freewriter @arbitrarykitten has a business here on Steemit. Several editors are offering to edit and format your post for a small fee. Check out their intro post

• Our discord channel Isle of Write has workshop rooms for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry where some of the experienced writers might be able to give some tips. Join with this link https://discord.gg/zfXNRnK

• If you are ready to get serious about improving your understanding of the English language check out @majes.tytyty blog. He has lots of useful information to understand words and their roots better. If you have questions or need help, leave a comment on his blog.

• If you know of other helpful tools or people, please share with us!

Money

There are several people who offer SBD for free on this platform! How great is that!!

Here are a few
@scrooger has a great "help the minnows" project. It is so easy!! Register by leaving a comment for an upvote - or invest into buying a lifetime upvote. A minnow support project brought to you by @scrooger
@fisheggs - follow this account and you get upvotes at random times.
@sydesjokes - he rewards his followers with SBD for any kind of interaction with him- comment, vote, resteem.
@danielsaori - he does a comment contest. A new challenge every week.
@rexusmo - I think a few of you have started to leave links to your post. Every day, he has a cheering up post. You leave a link to a post you are proud off and you might get a reward. Keep trying!!
#newbiegames takes you to all kinds of games and competitions @newbiegames

Steemit Tools

This is the most comprehensive list of applications on this blockchain I have seen. I highly recommend that you bookmark it!! I also will include it in the growing resource section in the future. Steemit Tools

Staying Legal

This is an excellent article by @dmcamera on how to use images legally. A must read!!

Discord

Remember, we have our own room in the Isle of Write Discord! Join us now!!!

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If you like this and want more people to come out and play - resteem!

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