Whales, Steemit and Community

Hi Everyone!!!

Stranded on the sofa like whales with a plankton's indigestion.......

Now where did THAT come from, Harry thought as he sat at the table trying to think of something to write........

It has been hours just sitting here staring at a blank piece of paper. Yup, Herry had tried that too. When no words came he had remembered how an old professor of his had mentioned when words stuck in his head, he grabbed a real pen and paper. How thoughts flowed just like the ink of the pen while it was gripped in his hand. Hearing the sound of the pen on real paper made their mind free of all thoughts but the story in front of them. Well, bully for Professor Dingbat! He writes a best seller and I spew up whales? on a flipping couch?

He must be going crazy.......

In this world today don't we all feel like plankton? trying to just make it a little farther in life swimming as we go and hoping that no one sucks us in on the way to our journey to true light?

How those whales are always there, distracting, distracting to take you off course.

Interesting! Herry thought. How many times have I been sucked off course by a whale in my life? Too many times to count! thought Herry.

Herry glanced down at the paper before him and started writing about how his life sucked into a whale and became what it is today.

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Herry's pen going faster and faster as the light of day made its way into the night.

This was an interesting #freewrite to do! I mean what do you do with that prompt?????

On top of the prompt, I was not really awake which might have helped me come up with something to write. That most likely is the case.

Today I wanted to show my raw #freewrite. To show beginning freewriters how I as a non-professional writer, typer, speller can still enjoy doing freewrites.

How freewriting is what you make of it. Whether it is the friendships you make along the way by stopping at other freewriters pages. Reading how they took the same prompt you just had and came up with something so wonderfully different. You see how one word can take on hundreds of meanings. For that alone, it's worth reading freewrites.

Freewrites open up a world on Steemit where you can meet people if you are new to the platform. It helps you start posting once a day. It helps you be a better writer in the end and for most, it's why you thought you could make money on Steemit. Then you come to Steemit and just learning how to post becomes an hour-long lesson. Many leave right after that.

Steemit is becoming more and more community based as time goes on. The beauty of Steemit is you don't have to sign up to follow those groups. Just read their posts.

As of right now all community's are open. Steemit is a public platform after all.

You can, if you are so inclined, join Group Discord Channels. They can be very overwhelming if you have never been on Discord before but if you join a smaller group like the Isle of Write there are wonderful people waiting to help you out.

Steemit is what you make it. How much time and energy you want to put into to it is how much you will get out of it. @valorforfreedom is a perfect, newer, example of that.

Then we have our very own @mariannewest who had a dream. A Freewrite dream. A dream to make a place for herself in a new community that once here can be a tad overwhelming. What she started has grown in so many ways. Friendships have been made that will last a lifetime. All because someone had an idea and never gave up.

So to end this Ramble and make a conclusion this I will say.

Steemit has a place for everyone. If you don't find a Community to your liking, make your own!

If you want to see how to go about doing that, I gave you two perfect examples to read how they went about doing just that.

Happy Steeming!!!
Snook

This is my Day 88: 5 Minute Freewrite

Image Source and my own.