It started to rain on Southern California. As you might know, that is a great joy for us and also a great worry. While we need the rain, often, it floods and we scramble to keep everything safe. Supposedly, we are going to have 5 days of rain! That is more than we sometimes have in a whole year. I am also getting better every day. This thing hung on for a long time. I am just still low on energy but am hoping to be back to normal any day now.
The reason I am telling you about the rain is that I owe you a whole lot of Freewritehouse housekeeping. Hopefully, today is the day. In the meantime, enjoy the ZapFic contest by @felt.buzz. Find it in the Freewrite community and shared to the freewritehouse.

Join the Freewriters Hive Community!

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@felt.buzz wrote this great tutorial on how to post to the community. Read the post here. Be prepared that there will be more changes in the future. Together, we will figure it out.

When you post through the community, you will need to resteem your post to show up on your blog. You have to resteem from the community. In the future, private communications will be possible through the communities and only what we chose to resteem will appear on our Steem profile

See below for more info on how to join the community. @Felt.buzz made this awesome gif!

Make sure and scroll down and see what is happening at the Freewrite House!!

Prompt: nail polish

• 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.

Freewrite in Spanish: Check @latino.romano

Freewrite in German: Check @freiesschreiben

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

Also, I would love it if you all check out each others #freewrite and spread some love :)

Comments on each other's freewrite is the stuff our community is made off. I found out through some of you that a comment coin exists now. That initiative is still in its beginning phase, but I am excited about it. I have enough coins now to get the rewards for you started!!

• You earn a coin by leaving a good comment.
• When you have 80 cc (comment coins) you can reward your comments with a coin. Simply add cc as one of your tags.
• We also have coins at the Freewritehouse and will start to give some away as prices.

For more info, check out @commentcoin. I hope we all will be able to reward each other soon!!.

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ZapFic by @felt.buzz

Check the Freewriters Community!!

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Recommend Your Favorite Freewrite

Find it at the Freewrite House

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Check out the Freewrite House for current contests.

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

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Freewrite Info, Contests, Tips and More

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

If you are running a contest let me know, I will list it here 😄

• @worldbuilder presents a monthly contest with 50 Steem in prizes! Link to the contest

• @felt.buzz is holding the #zapfic contest!! Write a story in 240 characters!

• @improv is the master of puns! Enter his Punday contest at his profile @improv.

• @whatisnew - Every Thursday a nature-related photo contest.

Ongoing Contests by supporters of the Freewriters

• Drawing/Comic Contest by @organduo: Pinky And Spiky Drawing Contest

• @rycharde has nonsense writing contest every other week

Let's Do Community!!!

As many of you know, we have a Spanish speaking Freewrite effort going on. The fearless leader is @latino.romano who is putting a lot of effort into building the Spanish language community. Thank you!!

But that is not what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about Venezuela.
If you listen to the news at all, you know that the country is having a lot of difficulties - and many are suffering.

I know that we can't change the country or help all that are suffering, but we can help our Freewrite Community members - at least a little bit.
Please, upvote the following people as often as you possibly can!

@latino.romano, @isgledysduarte, @oizaguirres, @sacra97, @mllg, @yeceniacarolina, @lisfabian, @issymarie, @belkisa758, @felixgarciap, @zhanavic69, @mariita52, @teresah

And try to sponsor them into SBI.

If you have a business on Steem you want to share, let me know. I will start a dedicated section in the resource portion of the prompt posts.

Spanish Freewrite Initiative

The Daily Prompt is now also being published in Spanish and a Spanish language community is forming.

@latino.romano is the leader of the community and I am sure, he would love for you to stop by and say hello - in any language. If you are bilingual, please feel free to publish you freewrite in both languages and drop the link at both Daily Prompt posts.

Está publicada la versión en español de hoy @latino.romano

German Freewrite Initiative

Sunday through Friday, @isarmoewe is publishing the Freewrite prompt in German. A lovely community is already forming. Find the prompt at /@freiesschreiben
Please visit her blogs and tell all your German friends!

Many of the Freewrite House Contests will be in German, Spanish, and English. Check @freewritehouse

Voting

Remember to check your voting power.
https://www.steemnow.com/ or use https://steemworld.org/

• If your vote is below 0.06 - this is a must read by @thedarkhorse. It is based on HF20 information,but we still have Vote Dust

Some say that the best strategy is to not vote on comments anymore - we shall see soon if that is true or not. If you have low SP, it probably is a good idea to only vote on posts.

This is an initiative called @dustsweeper that is helping all of you [who deal with vote dust](Here is an initiative to help all of you who are dealing with voting dust. find the details here)

Also, check out @dustbunny - it is structured differently with the same goal in mind

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](https://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english

• The 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. You have to go way back - as far as August. But it still is all there.

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

Money

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.

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

Here are a few

• @steemexplorers Check out their profile for more info.

• @qurator is an initiative to support steemians who post good content. Check the account and discord for more details.
  @quarotor is sponsoring us at the @freewritehous

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!!!

art and flair courtesy of @PegasusPhysics

Join us for the daily 5 - Minute Freewrite. Check my profile for a new prompt every day.

All images are my own unless otherwise cited.

Join the Freewriters Hive Community!

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We now have a community!! Join the Freewriters!

• Steempeak and Steemit have a community tab - click on it.
• Go to explore communities
• Join the Freewriters
• Post your Freewrite through the community if you wish.
  We curate Freewriters through the FreewriteHouse and through the Freewriters Community accounts!
  We also tweet and share many of your posts to Facebook.

#SoCalSteemit is building and supporting the Steemit community of Southern California. If you are from SoCal and are into creating quality content here on Steemit, we'd love for you to follow us @SoCalSteemit and join our group on Discord!

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Join us at the Freewrite House for fun and games!!! Weekly drawing for SBI memberships and so much more!!

Other ways to earn cryptocurrency

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• Join Mana - Universal Income Project:
• Listen to bitrad.io and earn Bro:
• Want to earn sweat coin by walking outside? Join here

Listen to the Sustainable Living Podcast here!

Buy Freewrite House Swag here