And yonder?... painted skies - Dreem-WOTW S3 R2
The other day a friend of mine shared with me that she had been gazing up at the sky and had been quite taken aback at how the cloud formations at that particular moment looked layered and painted like an artist's rendition of reality.
I'm sure we have all had those painted sky moments before, where nothing is as it seems, or things appear to be what they are not.
There are also times in our lives when we are able to reflect on how things are and choose not to accept the reality thrust upon us, but instead, take control and create our own best version of reality with carefully manicured brush strokes on the canvas of our life. In so doing, we succeed in painting our own reality, against the odds, and sometimes end up living our best life as a result!
Then again, for the artists among us, you may actually be quite adept at painting skies for real, in the sense of putting paint on the end of a brush and filling in images of clouds, sunsets, rainbows, or storms on an actual artist's canvas. So, you may just have an idea for a story centered around artistry.
There are any number of interpretations that can be used for the prompt this month. These are just a few...
Whatever your choice of writing format, be it short story fiction, creative non-fiction, discursive essay, or poetry, we hope you find the prompt this month of
an interesting one! And that you find the time to take part in dreem-wotw. We'd love for you to share your perspective with us!
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Hey @happy411 and @tydynrain why don't you join this contest.
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Okay, I'll check it out
I'll be glad.
Hope you take part! !PIZZA
Sure, I'll check it out later tonight.
That will be great.
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Weldone Ma'am. @princessbusayo and @george-dee would you come and check this out?
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Thanks for the tag.
Soooo philosophical 🥰
From a scientific description to a touching story are all possible with the theme "painted skies".
Well, I am at a place where the air is filled with pollutants and so colourful skies are observed once in a blue moon, yet whenever there is such an appearance, the beauty put me in an awe. I feel captivated.
Let see how the dreemers come with this theme.
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@terganftp I think you should use the magic of your pen on the topic.
hehe..
....and now you are putting me to work.
I'll have to register for DREEM and I'm awful at short stories...worse at poems... but as you have requested it I'll try to make up a long form post after I figure out what a discursive essay is.
Thanks for the invite.
We are open for long essays too. As long as you can write. We will welcome.
And I have seen the ping in your post but haven't got enough time to read it peacefully. I will be there asap. !LUV
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I thought I did by writing a post. However I think I've figured out dreem so I'll be curating as well... on Tuesday I believe he date was
beautiful!
Aw thank my friends! Feel free to come and join in the fun if you ever fancy trying your hand at one of the prompts! We'd love to have you. !LUV
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I would also liked to be tagged.
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Thank you for the tag!
You are welcome 🤗
Come along and join in the fun! !LUV
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Thank you 😁
I love this prompt :) ... I just need a good idea for my post now 🙏
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Splendid! As always.
"Painted skies" will spur a lot of creative entries, I know. And I look forward to reading them in the following week.
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I Love This ! Will get my pen and get down to writing.
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I'm having a different feeling from this month's Dreem word of the week! It's quite realistic to me. I would just have to reread this post one more time to get the feeling of inspiring I am already getting. #dreemer #dreemport
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I try, !LOLZ I haven't been too active myself lately. Trying to change that both in curation and writing. Life off -chain has been busy but managing to keep this going :-) !LUV
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Hehe. This sounds really cool. I might not have so much time but I sure as hell don't want to miss this one out. From #dreemport. @kainene ...why not join in.
hahaha then don't !LOLZ It's always a pleasure seeing you write! !LUV
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@holler and @beckyroyal let do this together and enjoy the writing spirit of painted skies this month.
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Thanks for the tag, I will check it out
OK, that's good of you.
I hope you like what you see and come and join in with the fun !PIZZA
I hope so too, in fact I can't wait. Thanks @samsmith1971
Nice. Looking forward to seeing your entry. !PIZZA
No problem
I would love to join this, I hope I can
before the deadline.
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This prompt is really interesting, I am eager to read from my fellow dreemers and see how creative they will go with this topic while I plan to write mine
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Good day Sam 🥰
Oh Sam. I have had many of these moments and right now, it feels like the moments are snippets of my life 🙂
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Awesome then lots of choice on what to write for this, yeah? ;-) !LUV !PIZZA
This is beautiful. The sound of creating one's reality is like music to mu ears. Let's see what my pen decided to bring in.
#dreemerforlife.
@julti1985 and @fashtioluwa check this out.
Let me ink my pen and get ready for creativity.
That's right babe
I love the way you put this! !LUV
Hehe, thank you.
Looking forward to the opportunity to potentially curate some :) #dreemerforlife
awesome, thank you, my friend !PIZZA !LUV
This is a really beautiful topic to write on but I don't even know how to go about it. The idea I have is not something that I can do so easily but then I'd look forward to curating others entry.
hey Hope! Please come and have a go. We all have fun taking part and challenging ourselves once a month with something new. It's fun! No stress hehe !LUV
Yeah I will try but I'm not promising, hehe.
How are you doing? It's been a while!
Yes, it has! Too long. I'm good thank you. Trying to get back in the swing of writing. How are things going with you? !LUV
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(no space) to get help on Hive. InfoYeah, I hope you swing back soon enough, hehe. It's never easy to cone back after leaving it for some time.
Things are going pretty well, God has been really mindful of me 🥰
This is a good one.
Brain 🧠 at work already
"Painted Skies" a creative theme with a lot of fabric to cut through, excellent.
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This is beautiful and I know a lot of us would weave this amazing prompt into wonderful things. Looking forward to everyone's entries.🤗
Thank you, Tess.Hope to see an entry from you too, my lovely x !LUV
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(no space) to get help on Hive. InfoHey, @samsmith1971, I stopped by and read your post. It inspired me. So I wrote a little something.
Thanks for being you! 💛
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I'm so pleased you felt an urge to write. I've just read your short story and commented on it... and I see that it is the first post in Dreemport for today too 🥰 You brought a smile to my face this morning and I think it will be there for the rest of the day 🤗 Hope the skies are beautiful for you on your walk with Loki today 💗 !LUV !Hug
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(no space) to get help on Hive. InfoMy darling friend... It's been such a long time and how I have missed you. Thank you for being so insistent, devoted and constant. You are simply phenomenal.
You are right...we are responsible for creating our own reality...that's what makes it special.
#dreemerforlife.
Ola! :-) So lovely to see you back online. I've missed seeing you around here too. You disappeared and I wondered if life had just got really busy for a while. I saw your message. Sounds like life has been treating you well and working you hard too hehe. I'm happy for you. Hope to see you around loads more. Who am I kidding lol, I hope to see me around loads more too hahaha. So I hope we both keep meeting up around here, in Dreemport and on Discord. You considering dreem-wotw or maybe next time hehe (had to ask, right?) !LOLZ !LUV !ALIVE
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Painted skies, hmm, one thing I know for sure is that I've been in that moment where I recreated my reality than succumbing to defeat, and I'm ever grateful I took that decision.
I didn't get a tag, the duration is short to make an entry and submit today, just seeing this post, I will still write about my experience though.
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I will make sure to tag you going forward, @glorydee 🤗 You still have 2 hours to write - anything is possible hehe We'd love to receive a submission from you. !Hug !LUV
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Thank you so much.
Thank you
Oh, yeah! Many thanks.
That's very kind, thank you. Much appreciated indeed!
I am grateful @amberkashif
Thank you 😊
Thank you😍