Since we are coming to the end of season 2 and a whole year of Dreem-WOTW, we'd love some feedback from the community on the different types of prompts and writing challenges that we have set so far. We like to try different things to appeal to a wider range of writers 😍 and to mix things up a bit too! So please feel free to provide your feedback in the comments - *the good, the bad, and the ugly...* 😂💗

So far we have had individual writing prompts, multi-prompt challenges, collaborative fiction writing, and drabbles. What did you enjoy the most? What did you find more challenging? Is there anything we haven't done yet that you would love to see? We are constantly looking for new ideas to bring interesting, fun challenges to the community 😍 We have many more things we can do... but I thought I'd ask the community to throw in some thoughts too so we can consider adding them to the mix!

And I would ask that you guys all read each other's comments and give support in the form of a thumbs up 👍to any suggestions that you really like... and it's ok simply to suggest more of a specific type of challenge that we have already done hehe.

OK, and now onto the winners for Season 2 Round 5...

This month the prompt was entropy and we received a diverse selection of entries from poetry to short story fiction to creative non-fiction to discursive essay.

We received 13 entries in Dreemport, which was slightly lower than usual but the prompt was a little more challenging than previous ones have been.

As always, the top 5 posts in Dreemport, as voted for by the public curators, automatically made the shortlist for dreem-wotw grading. In addition to the top 5, dreem-wotw graders each had the opportunity to shortlist a post that they deemed to be of sufficient merit to be considered by the rest of the grading team.

The final standings, after individual consideration by members of the grading team, are as follows:

Public:

1st @strega.azure with Learn to Swim
500 Dreem Tokens, 1 Dreemport Featured Post, 350 Ecency points, 3 HBI, 50 Scholar, 2 Scribe (Please contact @jacoalberts or @dreemsteem to arrange for Dreemport to feature a post of your choice (subject to Dreemport guidelines) on Dreemport.com for a week.)

2nd @grocko with The Sire of Order
200 Dreem tokens, 200 Ecency points, 2 HBI, 50 Scholar

3rd @pinkchic with Missing the Old Times
150 Dreem Tokens, 150 Ecency points, 1 HBI, 50 Scholar

4th @atyourservice with Black Market
150 Ecency points

5th @amiegeoffrey with Entropy: Effort and Action
150 Ecency points

The remaining public contestants will each receive 100 Ecency points:
@kingsleyy and @dwixer

Staff:
1st @shadowspub with Matilda's Guide to Managed Chaos
250 Dreem tokens, 1 Dreemport featured Post, 350 Ecency points, 3 HBI, 50 Scholar, 2 Scribe (Please contact @jacoalberts or @dreemsteem to arrange for Dreemport to feature a post of your choice (subject to Dreemport guidelines) on Dreemport.com for a week.)

2nd @tengolotodo with Time to do the White Entttropy Summer Walk
100 Dreem tokens, 200 Ecency points, 2 HBI, 50 Scholar

3rd @deraaa withTTT entropy
50 Dreem tokens, 150 Ecency points, 1 HBI, 50 Scholar

Congratulations to all the official winners (5 public and 3 staff) and especially to @strega.azure and @shadowspub for taking the top spots in the two respective contest pools🙌

Promotion prize:
For tagging 2 other people in the comments @amiegeoffrey won another 150 Ecency points. Yay!!! That's 2 months in a row - thank you Ms. Amie 😍 - I appreciate the support!

For using the @ecency front end to publish their posts on Hive, the following all earned 25 Ecency points.

@dreemsteem @tengolotodo @grocko @pinkchic @wrestlingdesires @kingsleyy @dwixer

Finally, all participants were entered into the random draw for 150 Ecency points just for taking part in the contest. And the winner(s) selected by random.org were:

@wrestlingdesires and @grocko

All prizes will be transferred tomorrow evening as it is now after 1 am for me 😘.

Please look out for the next Dreem-WOTW contest post this coming weekend.

The next submission date in Dreemport will be Tuesday 25th July.

Until then...

All new entrants each month will be added to the tagged list.

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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