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If you are celebrating Christmas: Merry Christmas to you!!

Please welcome our newest freewriters @olaivart and @svashta

Every day, I am inviting you to visit one and leave some comments and votes. Today, please visit @whatisnew. She has been showering everyone with tips. Hope you give her some voting love!

Prompt: flash

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.

Our Community

So much is happening and I want you all to know about it!!

I told you about the awesome collaboration between @snook,@byn, and @wnadrnrose7 in yesterday's prompt. And now, @whatisnew and @deaconlee have done another shared story!! Love it!

Part1 by @whatisnew
Part 2 by @deaconlee
Part3 by @whatisnew

I hope that both of you record the entire story and upload it to DTube!!

The challenge to read your stories on DTube was taken on by @snook just beautifully. Here is her latest video. Please feel free to edit your stories as much as you wish.

Here is the challenge video

Just remember that Dtube is still in Beta and sometimes things don't work. Just come back after a little while and try again...

Some Tips

Our fellow freewriter @fitinfun wrote this tutorial on using an autovoter

And, our fellow freewriter @arbitrarykitten has written an excellent article on plagiarism. Obviously, this is not a problem among us but wanted you to have it and bookmark it if you come across a post or poster you can help to become a better steemian

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/

Here is an excellent article explaining how to maximize your vote. It helps you to grow to vote wisely!!

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

This post is talking about using your vote for maximum curation and our fellow freewriter @miniature-tiger won this week!! He knows how to do this! Congrats! Read the post here

Contests and Challenges you can enter

And another freewriter, @slhomestead, has started her own challenge. So cool!! Check out the intro post here

@improv has a weekly pun challenge!!! Info to be found here

Our fellow freewriter @mydivathings started her own writing challenge. Here, you will get a daily picture as your prompt. Check it out

This is a poem challenge by @margaretwise. The rules are here. Look for a new post every Friday to post the link to your poem under.

This is the Why So Serious challenge by @whysoserious. It has a category for fiction. Check it out

Money

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

Here are a few

@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.
@craigcryptoking- he does a giveaway a few times a week. All you have to do is to be the first, or fourth or eight commenters.
@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!!

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