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#WrittenOnFreewrite

March 12, 2020 | 2 min read

The Freewrite community has so many incredibly talented writers who have used Freewrite to publish amazing work. We want to use this space to highlight the exceptional novels, screenplays, and essays that have been written on Freewrites all over the world. 

 1. White Peak - Ronan Frost

White Peak

Ronan Frost's White Peak is a fast-paced action thriller full of death-defying adventure.

Greg Rask, a dying tech billionaire, has invested millions chasing miracle cures. None of them are worth a damn, but he refuses to give up. Now, he’s gathering a team willing to go to the ends of the earth chasing life.

See how Freewrite helped Ronan Frost bring his novel to life: 

 2. Suspicion - Joshua Toro

 

 “Suspicion” is a short film that was written by Joshua Toro on his Freewrite. It was the recipient of the 2018 Yale University Howard R. Lamar Prize in Film and Video and was featured in the Austin Film Festival.

While most people know Freewrite's effectiveness in writing novels, not many people know that it is also quite effective for writing screenplays! Freewrite supports Fountain Syntax and exports drafts as .FDX files for easy importing into Final Draft.  

Check out Joshua's film below: 

 3. Blood Drops: A Collection of Horror Short Stories - W.B. Welch 

Blood Drops

 Blood Drops is an anthology of 18 short horror stories and the collection has been very well received! Whether we are following WB through a grim future where human meat is on the market, or trailing slowly behind while she introduces us to Marie Laveua's daughter, you can be certain of one thing: you will be surprised. The best and the most brutal of WB's work has been brought together in this all-too-believable collection.

Many of the short stories in Blood Drops were written on Freewrite, see what W.B. Welch had to say about the process: 

 

 4. Rockit Crew: The Adventures of Teenage Hip-Hop Misfits - Shane Robitaille

Shane Robitaille's debut novel, Rockit Crew, tells the story of 4 friends who become hip-hop outcasts in the summer of 1984 and learn about the power of friendship, life, death, and how hard it is to be unique in a town that doesn't always welcome those who are brave enough to be different.

Hear Shane talk about how Freewrite helped him write his first novel: 

 5. A Place of Silence - Liam Heneghan

While Liam Heneghan has written a novel on his Freewrite, he gets the highlight here for a beautiful essay he wrote, A Place of Silence.  Our world is more connected than ever these days, and Liam's essay is a reminder on how dedicating some time to silence can do wonders for your productivity and mental health.  This is the same idea that the Freewrite came from, so it's quite poetic that Liam's essay was written on Freewrite! 

Check out the essay here.  

Have you published work with your Freewrite?  Let us know, we'd love to feature you on our list! 

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I spent a decade correcting people's grammar. (Not in an insufferable way. I was getting paid to do it.) Now I write without correcting my own.

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The winning short story in the 2026 Freewrite 500 is "Deathbed Victory" by Rocky Halpern.

I wish my mother could be a little less enthusiastic about losing weight from chemotherapy. Her sharp wrists and angular neck are trophies others remark upon. They look past her hair and eyebrows that are like hay carried away by a thunderstorm and ask if she’s doing keto or mediterranean. 

The world is mesmerized by shrinking things. Mini candy bars, happy meal toys, tiny dogs that fit inside a purse, dollhouses, adults who weigh as much as children. 

My mother wants me to go on Ozempic. I sit next to her hospital bed, and she wraps her wisp of a hand around my thick, pulsing wrist. She asks me to dream of wearing matching bikinis on the shores of a tropical beach. She wants me to share in her religion, recite the sacred text: Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. 

But chemo has rubbed her tastebuds down to a dull throb, so what does she know about it anyway? 

She dozes off as evening begins to creep. The TV mounted to the wall across from the bed plays a muted rerun of Friends, the one where Monica wears a fatsuit. She is half my size, at least. I turn off the TV, let go of my mother’s hand, and head toward the cafeteria. 

I examine limp premade salads, gray tuna fish sandwiches, and an unmanned make-your-own smoothie station. Eating dinner here doesn’t leave me with much of an appetite. Maybe I don’t need weight loss medication after all, I can just skulk the halls and wonder how much time we have left together. 

How much of that time will my mother spend wishing there was less of me? 

How much less of her can there be before she disappears? 

A nurse is checking her vitals when I return to the room. My mother looks at me, laughs softly, and asks the nurse, Can you believe she used to fit inside of me? 

I think of how we must have been, her warm body encasing mine like a bacon-wrapped date. I wonder if she ate hot fudge sundaes when she was pregnant with me. I wonder if there is a single moment of her life where she didn’t feel terrified of her body. 

My mother is a ghost and it’s the proudest she’s ever been, her deathbed victory lap. Somewhere, Jenny Craig sheds a tear and whispers into the ether, It’s not just about losing weight; it's about gaining life.