[OT] Tuesday Free Write - Share stories, post poems! Prompt inspired or personal works are welcome!
Welcome to the weekly Free Write Post! Feel free to post anything and everything writing-related. Prompt responses, short stories, poems, personal work, anything you have written is welcome.
This post is mainly meant for sharing your work, not advertising or promotion. You can link to your published novels, but not the same one repeatedly.
Please use good judgement when sharing. The rules for what content is allowed here still apply. If it's anything that could be considered NSFW, please do not post it here.
If you do post, please make sure to leave a comment on someone else's story. If you want critical feedback, it’s a good idea to say that before or after your story, since most readers won’t assume that you want criticism.
A thing you might want to know about r/WritingPrompts
Excited to discuss your work in greater depth? Join our WritingPrompts Discord server and take part in our broader feedback-oriented events each month:
Open Campfire—read a story of yours aloud and get feedback every first Friday
World Building Campfire—present and be interviewed about your world every second Friday
Character Building Campfire—present and be interviewed about your characters every fourth Friday
This Day In History
On May 12, 1820, Florence Nightingale, who was the foundational philosopher of modern nursing was born in Florence, Italy. International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birthday.
Nightingale became an important figure in nursing in the 1850s during the Crimean War, where she was stationed at the Barrack Hospital. Nightingale headed a group of nurses that cared for injured British soldiers. When she first arrived at the hospital, she was struck by the desperate condition of the facilities, and imposed strict standards of care, ensuring that the wards were kept clean and well stocked with food and medical supplies.
Nightingale’s experiences at Scutari led her to campaign for reform in health care and nursing, and in 1860 she opened the Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London. The school’s success prompted the establishment of similar training schools for nurses in Australia, China, and the United States. These pioneering schools provided a fertile foundation for the subsequent growth and advance of the modern nursing profession.
Each year the ICN commemorates International Nurses Day with the production and distribution of promotional and educational materials intended in part to emphasize the dedicated and innovative work performed by nurses worldwide, which is vital not only to the improvement of patient health but also to the advancement of health care. In Australia, Canada, the United States, and other countries, International Nurses Day often is part of a weeklong celebration, usually referred to as National Nurses Week.