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Week 10/15/2019 - Win a Membership in Steem Basic Income - Tell us About a Favorite Freewrite

@carolkean here on behalf of #freewritehouse with yet another Friday conundrum: I will post the weekly favorites on Thursday as I'll have no internet access Friday. If anyone covets this job, I'll hand it off to you. If not, y'all are stuck with me and my hit-and-miss Friday posts. And now....here are the Freewrite Favorites!

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@carolkean

I'm going to get weird this week and excerpt a a photo from one of the nominated posts because I love this picture so much and one of our most active and prolific freewriters shared it with us:

Thank you @ You-Know-Who for the happy memories (and photo!). Parents like yours manifest all that is good and right in the world, and you clearly are carrying on their legacy.

Readers, you'll have to read on to find out which freewrite this is from.

Most of you will recognize the photo of our beloved freewriter.

Tissue Alert: if you listen to this song, you might shed a few tears.

Ok, NOW for the nominees...

@zeldacroft

totally made my day with this post:

I love the "good doctor," a big man, jolly and energetic, charging up the steep hillside, the epitome of America's love affair with Walt Whitman. Great explorers!! - one of my favorite subjects - thank you, @zeldacroft. No cameras - just a sketchbook and art supplies to schlepp around in new, uncharted territory, and who has time to draw when (as the doctor points out) ADVENTURE awaits? But thank God the great ones did draw - on the Lewis and Clark expedition, and Karl Bodmer's Illustrations to Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied's expeditions (Brazil, North America).

This story calls to mind a Moody Blues song about legendary explorers, namely, the one who'd been missing for years. I love the classic, coolly British greeting from the man who found him - Not "OMG, it's you," but the quintessential

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

Yes, she tipped us off:

So it was after midnight, and I was watching a [Dr. Livingstone] documentary from the Secrets of the Dead series while writing this. I don’t mean for this to be him, and Jonathan was invented too, but it was inspirational to think back on great explorers. It must have been incredibly exciting and terrifying to head into the unknown.

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For those who don't know the story, here it is:

A 19th-century explorer named Dr. David Livingstone became something of a national hero through his articles and lectures about his adventures in Africa. In 1864, Livingstone led an expedition to discover the source of the Nile. When little to nothing was heard from or about Livingstone after many years, Europeans and Americans became concerned. In 1871, the publisher of the New York Herald hired Henry Stanley, a newspaper reporter, to find Livingstone. Heading a group of some two hundred men, Stanley headed into the African interior. After nearly eight months he found Livingstone in a small village on the shore of Lake Tanganyika. As Stanley described the encounter, “As I advanced slowly toward him I noticed he was pale, looked wearied . . . I would have embraced him, only, he being an Englishman, I did not know how he would receive me; so I . . . walked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said, ‘Dr. Livingstone, I presume?' The phrase “‘Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” caught the public's fancy, and any number of would-be wits greeted friends with it until the phrase lost all traces of cleverness. But that never stopped people from continuing to use it long past the public's memory of who Livingstone or Stanley were.
source: Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

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Sorry-Not-Sorry,

I didn't mean to monopolize this post with my personal favorite, but @zeldacroft deserves the extra attention. And upvotes. And I am exploiting my volunteer job instead of just using my degree in teaching high school English to deliver historical tidbits to a captive audience.

@iamraincrystal

I look forward to this activity weekly ^_^ Here are my choices for the week...

@wonderwop

Interesting cat behavior! I didn't know some cats like tea. I better not put out tea drinks for our cats. ^_^ Amusing read!

@mr-neil

Amusing and fun to read. It reminded me of a person I know.. someone who has to be somewhere but never leaves on time! Ha ha! ^_^

@felt.buzz

"unpleasant" a weekend freewrite

Cleverly written with an interesting protagonist who is rather unpleasant. I do wonder what his whole story is. ^_^

@wakeupkitty

Okay, let's recommend a freewrite about bacteria...
My first recommendation is @myjob. She tells us about the fear getting necrotizing fasciitis or.. the flesh-eating bacteria. As a fisherman, it is easy to get injured. Are she and her husband immune for this bacteria? More about her life as a fisherman you can read in her entry.

My second recommendation is @improv.
He is not looking forward to see a giant bacterium it would scare him and made him hide in the basement. He found a way to scare them and also has a tip for you if it comes to 'inviting them for dinner'. More of his thoughts, bad or good you can read in his freewrite.

@felixgarciap

It's always hard to decide, here are my favorites:

First: @wonderwop, in which he shows us a funny scene in the shower, without glasses with an animal perching on him. So you can read it here.

Second: @mgaft1, he shows us a funny scene as an example of what not to do and what the consequences of doing so would be. You can read this here.

Third: @giocondina, she details the daily struggle to protect your child from bacteria. Here is the link.

@fitinfun

I'm going overboard this week with 4 recommendations:
@myjob actually has a pecan tree in her yard and we get photos! And more interesting fishing info as well :)

@wonderwop's dad was trying to get a pecan tree to grow, but instead left good memories.

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@deemarshall In a short but interesting few sentences, gives me good recipe ideas:

And we have a new freewriter in @medusaeffect who seems to know a lot about keeping bees:

@owasco

@iamraincrystal

has been writing great WeWrites. This week's is no exception.

Somehow they are always first up too. If you want a bit of spooky, don't miss this one. It's short but very swee... OK maybe it's not sweet, but it's a goodie. Go read it! I'm working kind of hard trying to come up with fifty words for this one without giving the story away. That's 50, right? It has to be 50.

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@owasco

I've followed this series only spottily, and missed her black, white and red all over submissions entirely, but I still love this series by @deeanndmathews. This entry though, this one, gave me chills. Captain Lee is such a stern and emotionally well-defended man in most of the stories, but in this one we come to know the vulnerable Captain, the captain in love. So beautiful. I keep hoping he and Mrs. Thornton (have I got that name right?) will get together, but he had a true love already once in his lifetime. Does one get to have two?

@deeanndmathews replied to a commenter,

Captain Lee's love lost ... great memories of a great day ...
But look how he gets told to get over love lost and get on with getting the love he needs, SORT OF gently...
https://steemit.com/writing/@deeanndmathews/weekend-freewrite-10-12-19-single-prompt-take-care

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And to @owasco, she replied,

Captain Lee's late wife was introduced in chapters 10, 11, and 12 of Black, White, and RED All Over, which came through on Steemit back in July, and some other references to her pop up in September's freewrites. Generally, Captain Lee's grief for her loss is the biggest component of his general gravity beside 23 years of hard Army service... he threw himself into the latter in order to deal with the former.

BUT, let me save you some searching backwards ... go get Black, White, and Red ALL Over over on Amazon, and get your questions answered in addition to seeing how this story all begins... AND, look forward to being tagged on the next big piece, The Posture of Innocence, VERY soon!

@curie also recognized this Freewrite Favorite:

@carolkean

@owasco

shines with her usual wit and irreverence with The Manor House We-Write prompt:

I love the come-uppance (however undeserved!) of the sister who flirts with the cute guy, and I love the ending. @deirdyweirdy summed it up well:

Love the story. It's a good laugh, especially Kelly's irreverent attitude to the hubby and kids. Nicely done!

Two other Manor House #we-writes also won the recognition of @curie!

@darthgexe - The Manor House - We-Write #10

@mgaft1 - We-Write #10: The Manor House

These will be past payout, but they are also worthy entries to the we-write prompt "Manor House":

@sarez

adds his trademark, a surprise twist (he's the master!) to his we-write:

@iamraincrystal

has us begging for a sequel:

As Clara hurried over to her sister, she failed to notice the two shadowy figures watching her, well-hidden from under the huge marble staircase.
The smaller of the two figures....

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Well, never mind if it's past payout by now: you'll want to read this!

@felixgarciap delivers a happy ending in his we-write entry:

@free-reign

delivers a spooky Halloween vibe with a

@vida-blanca

brings a prince and a dangerous kiss to her freewrite based on The Manor prompt:

Past Pay-Out, Sorry I Missed it, but most of us don't have Big Upvotes anyway, right?

Trying to make excuses for my flagrant disregard for the rules

We writers care more about the #comments, however nice the upvote can be--right? So....

@hlezama and @felixgarciap

[Nacho The Healer: WeWrite #8: Partner Contest]

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How did I not see this earlier? There is SO MUCH to see and read at Steemit. How did this one escape the Friday Favorites? We need to cast our nets wider.

@hlezama, this is fantastic and I'd love to see a movie spring from this character:

....many things were beyond his understanding. He had witnessed miraculous healings as well as horrendous and irreparable damage caused by words uttered or written on paper, even by an insect sent on a killing mission. He had seen respectable women lose their minds overnight and appear naked in the streets or gather a gang of lecherous bastards by the river banks...

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I love Nacho. I love his healing powers, and in @felixgarciap's part two, I love Nacho's his decision to take his knowledge to a new land where it will be appreciated.

Also past payout, another freewrite by @hlezama is clever, satrical, allegorical, and entertaining.

And the comments (#TheComments!) show how much one writer can pack into a short space. What looks like a farce, "Keystone Cops" variety, is really a telling observation about humanity.

Forgive my audacity, but I must call attention to other endeavors our #freewrite member Henrry is taking on. Translating poetry to English - now that is a challenge! And instead of getting paid for this herculean effort, Henrry is donating all proceeds to the poet @oacevedo, Oswaldo Acevedo.

In Henrry's words,

He (Acevedo) invites the reader to tune in “stellar frequencies” and conceive an existence that does not obey time or space constrains. The poet’s call is the call of the humanist who, in the best tradition of Walt Whitman invites us to sing the song of oneself, while at the same time celebrate the grandeur of a cosmic democratic vista that would allow us to become one with the world and every living creature in it.

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Don't miss the comment section! (my favorite refrain)

Be warned, though, you'll have to read a lot of Henrry's posts to catch some of the great dialogues they inspire. Two of my favorite commenters are @quillfire and our own @owasco, who comments,

owasco (61) in ulog • 3 hours ago

Girl, you go around reading long threads from a month ago?! I mean, it's cool, and it's nice to run into you like this,but how do you find that time? How do you even find the posts? xo

You know how I find old posts:

#Follow the authors, and follow #hashtags! *

Here it comes...

#Hashtags matter!

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Typos matter in #hashtags,

and I don't mean to embarrass anyone because we all suffer the occaional typo, and one of the most frequently misspelled is #theluvbug. Get one letter wrong, and your post will be the only one in the misspelled category. Who's going to find it there? Here's an example of the lonely consequence of leaving out the letter "i' in #we-write:

I almost never trust myself to type a name, even (especially!) the short ones. Eg., I can easily mis-type : @mgaft1 as @ mgfat1, and nobody will likely notice, unless someone tries to click on that name and call up his more recent posts.

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

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!

#powerhousecreatives #share2steem #theluvbug #blog #writing #steem #life #steemit #blockchain #crypto #cryptocurrency #cryptonews #steemitbloggers #love

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@fitinfun now a curator for @tipu and can give out some good votes!

Click on the image below to get to her post. I've tried to explain and use #tipu myself, but I kept running out of funds after so many auto-upvotes. Now @tipu has changed since "The Fork" (hardfork).

Today I got on the list to be a @tipu curator.
@tipu has changed from whatever it used to be to a new system now after the fork.
The project is just getting off the ground with changes, and you can read their updates here: https://steempeak.com/@tipu

See the leaderboard of curators here: https://tipu.online/curators

The basic idea is that we little people can curate posts for others (and our own posts) with the big SP @tipu has. It is 2.5 million SP with most of that delegated from someone else.

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@TheLuvBug was launched in March 2018 and has been doing its utmost to support the really hard workers here on the Steemit platform by upvoting and resteeming their content. It would be AMAZING if we were able to support more people, more often - and with your help, we can do that!

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I don't know much yet about this one, but #WhaleSlap! comes to mind:

My experience with @slowwalker or how @Art-venture project came to live

In August of 2018 after being a year on Steemit and having 1000SP we decided to help small users, who despite of being talented were undervalued. We @stef1 and @myskye decided to ask for delegation but so that it is transparent and the Delegator know that SteemPower will be used only for undervalued Artist we decided to create completely separate account so @art-venture was born.

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Another #shoutout to volunteers who deliver the new day's prompt

@deirdyweirdy, @whatisnew, @wonderwop, @owasco, @fitinfun, @botefarm

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

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

Check Out The @FreeWriteHouse Prompt Of The Day By @MarianneWest

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Finding a Freewrite

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In the comments, you find lots of links to all kind of freewrites.

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Find out how here Post is past payout, please do not vote on it.

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Update: Another #curie this week on a freewrite!

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Congratulations, @zeldacroft!