True stories are the most unbelievable.
Your friend must have a really powerful bow and arrow (compound bow?).
I'm thinking of Ulysses, who alone could draw his bow. Nobody else had the strength.
But I digress.
If your freewriting isn't as good as it used to be, I have noticed no such phenomenon.
Perhaps Certainly, you're just being hard on yourself.
I love all your freewrites!!!!