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

Painted Skies

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!

This month the Dreemport submission date is:

Tuesday 19th September between 4 am UTC and 23h59 UTC

This means that you have the best part of 5 days to write and publish to your blog, but please note...

IT IS THE ONLY DATE AND TIMEFRAME WITHIN WHICH SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR THE S3 R2 CONTEST IN DREEMPORT.

The curation/submission cycle starts and ends at these times so there is unfortunately little room for flexibility. All valid submissions to Dreemport will be reviewed and ranked by public curators the following day.

If you want to have your voice heard in this respect, simply log on the next day and curate and rank the 5 random contest posts assigned to you. This part is highly advisable, as part of the grading process includes an allocation of points for engagement... but engagement is only assessed if you do Dreemport curation of the contest posts in Dreemport on the day following the contest submission date.

The top 5 in Dreemport will automatically be shortlisted for grading for dreem-wotw prizes, alongside other entries of merit put forward by members of the grading team. We will also be able to access the top 5 Dreemport staff entries in the background and will run two contest pools to keep staff and public entries separate 😊

The dreem-wotw team will then use a Merit grading system that incorporates some aspects of the ORIGINAL Merit Grading Model developed by @scholaris and others added by @juliamulcahy in order to determine the winners.

If there are fewer than 5 entries in the staff contest pool, the dreem-wotw grading team reserves the right to award prizes only to those staff entries that are clearly amongst the top-scoring entries, considering all entries in both pools.


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Official Prizes will be as follows:

Public:

1st: 500 Dreem Tokens, 1 Dreemport Featured Post, 350 Ecency points, 5 Hive, 100 Scholar, 2 Scribe, 10 LUV

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Participation draw:
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Promotion draw:
Anyone who tags at least 2 new people (not already tagged in the post) who they think would like to take part in the contest, will be entered into another random draw where 1 person will win 150 Ecency points.

Good luck folks and I hope to see lots of people taking part this month🤗

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Please let me know if you would prefer not to be tagged and you will be removed from the list, and if you are reading this and would like to be tagged going forward, please comment below and I will add you💗.

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Hey @happy411 and @tydynrain why don't you join this contest.

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Thank you so very much for the tag, @luchyl! I appreciate it! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Yes, do come join in the fun! !LUV

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@lydiapauline @mell79 and @demgift can you check this out?

#dreemerforlife.

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Sure, I'll check it out later tonight.

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We'd love to have you! !ALIVE

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@mell79! You Are Alive so I just staked 0.1 $ALIVE to your account on behalf of @ samsmith1971. (1/10)

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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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Yeah pollution creates beautiful skies !LOLZ !LUV

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@terganftp I think you should use the magic of your pen on the topic.

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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.

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Hope to see you take part! !PIZZA

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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

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beautiful!

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Hey @ginika and@ukrajpoot I think you should see this.

I would also liked to be tagged.
#dreemerforlife

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I love this prompt :) ... I just need a good idea for my post now 🙏

!PIZZA !ALIVE !LOL !PIMP

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@samsmith1971! You Are Alive so I just staked 0.1 $ALIVE to your account on behalf of @ wrestlingdesires. (1/10)

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Thanks so much, my friend. You are always so very supportive. Thank you for the curation for the contest :-) !LUV !PIZZA !PIMP

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PIZZA!

$PIZZA slices delivered:
@samsmith1971(8/15) tipped @ma3str0
samsmith1971 tipped lydiapauline
samsmith1971 tipped deraaa
samsmith1971 tipped terganftp
wrestlingdesires tipped samsmith1971
samsmith1971 tipped beckyroyal
samsmith1971 tipped olujay
samsmith1971 tipped wrestlingdesires
samsmith1971 tipped julti1985

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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.

#dreemerforlife

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Awesome! Thanks for the vote of confidence, Olujay! !PIZZA

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This prompt is amazing, my hands are already itching me to start writing.

#dreemerforlife #dreemport

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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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Thanks for keeping the light on Sam.

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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.

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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.
#dreemerforlife

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Oh Sam. I have had many of these moments and right now, it feels like the moments are snippets of my life 🙂

#Dreemerforlife

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Awesome then lots of choice on what to write for this, yeah? ;-) !LUV !PIZZA

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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.

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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.

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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

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Yeah I will try but I'm not promising, hehe.

How are you doing? It's been a while!

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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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Yeah, 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 🥰

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This is a good one.
Brain 🧠 at work already

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"Painted Skies" a creative theme with a lot of fabric to cut through, excellent.
#dreemerforlife

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Congratulations 🥳🥳

@liberius-1 you are the lucky winner of 100 Dreem Tokens for participating in Dreemport’s Bounty.

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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.🤗

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Hey, @samsmith1971, I stopped by and read your post. It inspired me. So I wrote a little something.

Thanks for being you! 💛

#dreemerforlife

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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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My 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.

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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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@olawalium! You Are Alive so I just staked 0.1 $ALIVE to your account on behalf of @ samsmith1971. (1/10)

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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.

#dreemerforlife

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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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Just two hours left to join dreem-wotw for September. If you want to write you can still beat the clock! Don't forget to submit your post to Dreemport before midnight UTC today Tuesday 19th September.

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Beat the clock like HOURS ago! Lol

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@nkemakonam89 @olujay @jhymie @julti1985 @ma3str0 @emreal @cescajove @glorydee @rukkie @juliamulcahy @beeee @deraaa @balikis95 @olawalium

10 Dreem Tokens are awarded to each of for participation in Dreemport bounty

Keep Dreeming

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That's very kind, thank you. Much appreciated indeed!

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