You've got a flashlight in your hand as you walk through the house. You spot a mouse nibbling on cheese, a springed trap beside the mouse without cheese nor a mouse is upside down.

You tip-toe around the couch so as not to disturb the mouse. You remember the last time you disturbed a creature of its size - how it run up your night gown, waking the whole family with your terrific scream.

You come to where the door leading into the hallway is. Turning off the flashlight, you gently and cautiously open the door one squeak at a time. You scold yourself for not using the coconut oil to make your passage through the dark a noiseless one.

You stop when the door is half-way open, listening to any sound that might be your downfall. You wait. You wait some more. Your heart is beating in your throat. You swallow something you image to be the size of a full grown horse.

You move, squeezing through the half-open door. You hit something in the dark.

Backing away, you turn on the light and shine it directly at the object, and say, "Oh daddy. What are doing up at this late, late hour?"

You know ... he was about to ask his teenage daughter the same question.

I found this picture here but because I messed up with copy and paste and the site is not going to let me find it again because I'm no one a trial basis - this will have to do as credit.

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Freewrite brought to you by @mariannewest and @freewritehouse

If you would like to find out what freewriting is all about, go here.

Regular Freewritehouse features

• Announce the Adoptee -Monday
• Recommend your Favorite Freewrite and Win SBI - Tuesday
• We-Write and win SBI - Every other Wednesday
• Freewrite Favorites - Thursday
• Adopt Me!! -Friday
• Over 20 Club - Saturday

# Badges

If you are enjoying my work, please -

• I'm asking for something a little extra for the next couple of months. Please, if you can, support me in getting to Afrika. You can find the page I set up on Fundition and gofundme. Your help is very much need and appreciated.

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• Upvote my posts through steem auto and add the other people and groups you would like to support.

• Support me and others through steembasicincome shares. (This also helps you because you will also get a share for sponsoring somebody.)

• Click here --> Steemmonsters. This is an offical affiliate link. So, not only will you get awesome cards, but you will also be helping me out.

• Send steem directly to me! because you want to. 8-)

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• Coming to you from arcange, a friendly warning to all who want to be successful on the steemit platform:

A bit of paranoia is the basis of security.
There are a few simple rules to follow in order to avoid having your account hacked:

Rule 1: NEVER, I repeat, NEVER use or give your owner key or password!

Rule 2: Use your posting key to login, post and vote on trusted websites like steemit.com or busy.org.

Rule 3: NEVER give your active key as this key allows to control your funds! Only use your active key for special operation like money transfer or account update on trusted websites like steemit.com.

Rule 4: Anywhere else, if you are requested to provide any of the above key: RUN AWAY!!!

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Tools:

• The Most Dangerous Writing App - This program keeps me from getting to bogged down with what I think is the perfect way. It forces me to keep writing no matter what comes to mind.
• Grammarly - I use this app all the time to catch my mistakes. If I didn't have a spell checker, you would be lost in my world. haha!
• Hemmingway App: Another useful tool to help you make your writing more clear, comprehensive, and easier to understand.
• Steem World: After the @ symbol, enter your name or anyone elses name to see a host of information regarding what is going on with an account.
• List of 21 sites. Photos that you can use freely in your blog posts.

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Ongoing Contests

• twenty-four hour short story - You gotta be quick to get this one posted in time. He posts the contest on Sunday (usually) and ends it about 48 hours later. This contest has a 2000 word limit.

• Finish the Story Contest - The contest begins on Wednesday (usually) and end 5 days later. This contest will test your write skills with something a little different each week. Pletty of time to write something around the 500 word mark.

• Steem Monsters Common Card Fantasy Story Contest! - Coming out roughly every week. If you enjoy card games like Magic, Yugio, and others like it, you might like this game. Write a fictional tale about the card they present in the contest and your entry just might be the one they choose to showcase.

• Tell A Story To Me, And Win 5 SBD! Writing Contest - Kind of random when it comes out but don't worry. You will have two weeks to complete your work of art from the given prompt. Have fun!

• Haiku - These are coming out every couple days or so. If you stuggle with rhymes, no worries. Haikus don't have to rhyme. All you need to make a haiku is five syllable on the first, seven syllables in the second line, and again back to five syllable for the last line. So easy it makes me think I'm being super product. LOL

• Mizu No Oto - Every Image Has Its Haiku Contest - By reading the title, you should be able to guess how this haiku contest works. You're given an image and you write. I've really enjoy this contest because there are people here who've actually gone to classes to learn how to write haiku's; so if you want, you also can learn how to write quality haikus from reading the comments and critiques they and others give.

• 50-word Challenge - This is an interesting challenge and very challenging to say the least. You only get fifty words to tell a story or a vignettes. Here is a great post that will explain the difference between the two concepts. Good luck, Brave Story Writer!

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My Completed Freewriting prompts:

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How can you make this table or create something even better?

• Go here and here to find other examples that may prove useful.

• stackedit.io, which is great for seeing what you are doing while you are building your page.