That's a great idea actually:

> Or, are you maybe just doing those freewrites so writers willing to do the real work of shaping words into powerful stories have something to start with?
>
> Now, there’s a thought. Maybe they’re really five minute word prompts for others to make into something real. Is that the service you want to offer?

Most of the stories I write are just my worlds taken out of my mind into paper/internet, most of the ones I post are just IDEAS I thought they are good. I only want to better my writing because I can't always rely on other people writing them for me (I don't want money or IP I just want my worlds to be seen.)

So it's a great idea for me to put these ideas and "Hey, if you want to write a full story out of this, DO IT don't care about mentioning me."

###### About freewrite, I'll put it in the next comment...

> Once the mind-dump is complete, why would you not explore what you’ve written and shape it into something that you can be proud of?

While most of the freewrites I post on steem are ones I'm proud of. I agree with all of what you said. And from now on, if I do a freewrite, I'll make sure to post a heavily edited version of it instead of a mind dump.

I know you wouldn't agree with me when I say a freewrite still have a value (though way less than actual books.) These ideas wouldn't have been known if they weren't prompted by this initiative, and not all people are awesome writers or willing to be ones, if not for an initiative like this their ideas won't be known to the world. I think their showing their ideas and even failed attempts themselves have a value.

My only fear (and I think yours is the same) is that this website becoming like fanfiction %90 are just BAD WORKS and %10 vary from okay to good quality, this is against every REAL writer wish. (To be fair I love fanfiction even though I know they are terrible writings maybe that's why I defend freewrite?)

But with all the bad posts in other tags too, I think it's something we probably can't stop, we can only warn against like this post of yours.

###### By the way, I don't consider myself a REAL writer at all. As you can see from my other comment on this page.

I wrote about this myself a while ago and people just don't want to hear it. 

I hate being spammy, but if you want to know you are not alone feeling like this, you can read my article here: https://steemit.com/writing/@bex-dk/on-freewriting

Sadly, I fear you will find it is a losing battle, as real writing is WORK and not everyone is willing to do it. Those who want to be writers will likely find they regret what they're publishing. 

But if you want a community of people who believe in doing the work of writing, check out @thewritersblock.

Until I came on to steemit I'd never heard of freewriting as anything other than a warmup exercise.

I've read a bunch of freewrites... But really haven't figured out why you would post it.  I freewrite but I keep it to myself and use it to get into a flow or work out ideas. I'd call my free writing, my scratch pad. Disposable after use.

Some of the ernouts are a little bit up there for freewrites... just saying. 

wow, writing nazis. Where does it say that freewrite is writing for publishing ? Why dont you stick to doing what you want to do and leave people to enjoy what they enjoy doing. Freewriting is habit building and fun for so many.
Try getting off your high horses. It must be so cool to a published writer and brag about  it...like you're William Shakespeare.

Excellent commentary on freewriting. While I love the activity of it, and us folks on The Writers Block always encourage writing in general, regardless of the reason or situation, for the sake of pride one should only be putting their best work out there for public consumption.

Absolutely 100% agree! 
It saddens me tremendously to see this attitude you're describing. Not only in what people label 'freewrites', but also in so-called 'philosophy' or 'poetry', that are nothing but mind-dumps. Publishing those things on a public scale like on steem (besides maybe in comment-sections), is not only a waste of a good beginning, as you say, but also disrespectful.

AMEN!!! Who are you and why are you not a member of @thewritersblock? LOL

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Thank you for saying that! It's becoming increasingly frustrating to wade through an ocean of freewrites in search of actual stories!

I completely agree with you.

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