Alpha Summer Olympics: Smaller Price, Big Chances To Win

August 06, 2024 | 2 min read

Midsummer brings a unique energy - a blend of relaxation and inspiration that can spark incredible creativity. It's a time ripe with creative potential, and Freewrite is here to help you seize it with our Alpha.


First, let’s review what’s new with Alpha:

🌎 International Keyboard Layouts: Alpha now supports dozens of new languages and keyboard layouts.
✨ Fresh Custom Font: A new typeface for improved readability.

For more detail about the latest Alpha firmware update and how to install it, see our blog article.


Second, we're thrilled to introduce the Alpha Olympics: an exciting new competition and a smaller price to enjoy!

For a limited time, get your Freewrite Alpha for just $299 (was $349), saving $50! Use code ALPHASUMMER at checkout and purchase with ShopPay or Affirm for payments as low as $28/month.*
But hurry: the deal ends at midnight on Monday, September 9!


🥇Introducing the Alpha Olympics: Go for the Gold!

Compete in the promotion and be entered to win a $1,000 gift card! Here's how to qualify:
1.REP YOUR COUNTRY: Create a public Postbox Profile and add your country to the location section.
2.COMPETE: Choose your event:
🏃🏼‍♂️‍➡️ Marathon: Complete 20 writing days in August, or
🏃🏼‍♀️💨 Sprint: Earn a 14-day streak this month
Submit your Olympics results before September 2nd at this link.
We'll pick a random entry and our team will verify your public Postbox profile to ensure you've completed the requirements to qualify as winner.
Don't own a Freewrite yet? You can write on our free web app, Sprinter, and create a Postbox account to save your drafts and a Postbox Profile to participate in the challenge.

🎨 Limited Inventory Alert

We're down to our final 15% of White Speckled Alpha units. Once they're gone, they're gone for good. Don't miss your chance to own this unique finish!
Whether you're a seasoned Alpha user or a newcomer eager to start your Freewrite journey, there's never been a better time to embrace the power of distraction-free writing. The Alpha Olympics await!
*Fine print: Payment options are subject to final eligibility and approval. Payment lengths of 6 and 12 months must be made with a debit card. Payments may include interest. Shipping and taxes are extra. Installment programs are open to US customers only.

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The island is home to four Nobel laureates and five Booker Prize winners, and has spawned household names like James Joyce, Colm Tóibín, Maeve Binchy, and Sally Rooney.

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"In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation."

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"A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave."

Oscar Wilde cuts right to the heart of creativity here. What is creativity but the mind striking out of the grooves of regularity?

 

"I love communicative problems. They always introduce just enough friction for me to feel drawn into a scene, when there’s some slippage between what somebody is trying to say, or feels capable of saying, and what the other person wants to hear or is capable of hearing."

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"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."

Nobody presents writing truths as concise and witty as Oscar Wilde. Who among us hasn't agonized over a comma for hours?

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"I don’t ever plot. And I do very little research, as little as possible. I prefer to use my imagination. Language is older and richer than we are and when you go in there and let go and listen, it’s possible to discover something way beyond and richer than your conscious self."

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"The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize."

Colm Tóibín perfectly sums up the disembodied experience of writing here. The writer disappears and the characters take center stage.

 

"The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously."

James Joyce was certainly an adventurer, and though his notion to a "modern writer" predates ours by about a century, we don't think all that much as changed. Writers still need to take risks!

 

"I don’t say I was ‘proceeding down a thoroughfare.’ I say I ‘walked down the road.’ I don’t say I ‘passed a hallowed institute of learning.’ I say I ‘passed a school.’ You don’t wear all your jewellery at once. You’re much more believable if you talk in your own voice."

Maeve Binchy's own voice is apparent in every book she wrote. Her characters speak like real people, and that makes them all the more endearing.

 

"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry."

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