Wanna dabble in some drabble? Dreem-WOTW... S2R4 - You ready?

And after a 1-month break... we are back for Season 2 Round 4 πŸ™Œ

You didn't think I'd disappeared, did you?

Good! Now we got that outta the way πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚...

So... this month the challenge is simple 😜... a choice of prompts will follow below... pick ONE of them and write a drabble.

Say what???

What the heck is a drabble, Sam?

Glad you asked!

Citing Wikipedia...

A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space.

For this challenge, we want you to showcase your creativity in exactly 100 words (no more, no less!!!) to create the best short story fiction inspired by one of the prompts below.

Please make a note at the end of your post as to which prompt you have used to inspire your story. This note is not included in your word count πŸ€—

Use a word counter and paste a screenshot at the bottom of your post. Only the actual 'story' counts toward the word count.

But what if I write less than 100 words, Sam? I mean...

uh... yeah... but they need to be exactly 100 words short! 🀣

ok... then what if I make it longer than 100 words? I mean...longer is better, right?

Nope!!! Not in this case...😜

🀣🀣🀣

Prompt Options:

  1. Where does it hurt?

  2. Following the rules is boring.

  3. I have secrets

  4. The world is not ready for us.

  5. The real world

Summary of requirements:

  1. Pick a prompt and write a short piece of fiction exactly 100 words in length.
  2. Add a screenshot from a word counter to the bottom of your post.
  3. Use the tag #dreemwotw
  4. Post in any community although Scholar and Scribe is recommended.
  5. Share your post in Dreemport ON Tuesday 30th May... NOT BEFORE, NOT AFTER or your entry will not be counted.

This month the Dreemport submission date is:

Tuesday 30 May between 4 am UTC and 23h59 UTC

Please note...

IT IS THE ONLY DATE AND TIMEFRAME WITHIN WHICH SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR THE S2 R4 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 post in Dreemport on the day following the contest submission date.

Dreemport will provide an official top 5 reader's favourites to the grading team, who also reserve the right to include other entries of merit in the shortlisting for prizes. 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.


How to use Dreemport

If you have not used Dreemport before, you will need to register on dreemport.com, which is a quick and easy process.

You may want to start by taking a look at these videos by @dreemsteem ...

Getting started on dreemport

If anyone has any difficulty registering and trying out the platform, please tag me or @wrestlingdesires here on this post and we will help you to get this little piece of admin out of the way as painlessly as possible 😊

This month we are thankful to the following sponsors:

@dreemsteem and @dreemport for Dreem tokens

@melinda010100 and @ecency for Ecency point sponsorship

@dibblers.dabs and @jfuji and The Scholar and Scribe creative writing community for Scholar and Scribe tokens.

@amberkashif for Ecency point sponsorship

@wesphilbin for LUV tokens

This month Dreem-Wotw sponsors Dreemport Featured posts, HBI, as well as adding to the Ecency point prizes.

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Scholar and Scribe Sponsorship

If your entry is short story fiction or poetry, feel free to post it in the Scholar and Scribe community. All entries (no matter where you post them) can use the #scholarandscribe tag if you wishβ€”this will help you earn both SCHOLAR and SCRIBE tokens.

Learn more about S&S here and consider joining the community if you haven’t already.

Official Prizes will be as follows:

Public:

1st: 500 Dreem Tokens, 1 Dreemport Featured Post, 350 Ecency points, 3 HBI, 50 Scholar, 2 Scribe

2nd: 200 Dreem tokens, 200 Ecency points, 2 HBI, 50 Scholar

3rd: 150 Dreem Tokens, 150 Ecency points, 1 HBI, 50 Scholar

4th: 150 Ecency points

5th: 150 Ecency points

Dreemport Staff:

1st : 250 Dreem tokens, 1 Dreemport featured Post, 350 Ecency points, 3 HBI, 50 Scholar, 2 Scribe

2nd: 100 Dreem tokens, 200 Ecency points, 2 HBI, 50 Scholar

3rd: 50 Dreem tokens, 150 Ecency points, 1 HBI, 50 Scholar

4th: 150 Ecency points

5th: 150 Ecency points

Miscellaneous prizes:

For using the Ecency front end:
Each entry made using the Ecency front end will receive 25 Ecency points sponsored by Dreem-WOTW.

Participation draw:
All participants will be entered into a random draw and there will be 1 winner of 150 Ecency points.

Promotion draw:
Anyone who BOTH reblogs this contest post AND tags at least 2 people 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. If you do reblog the post, please mention that you have done so in the comments. I will only check for reblogs by those who comment accordingly. Please do not tag people already tagged in the post πŸ€—πŸ˜˜

Good luck folks and I hope to see lots of people dropping their names in the hat for this one! πŸ€—

All new entrants each month will be added to the 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 youπŸ’—.

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Fantastic idea. I wouldn't mind writing a drabble without the dreemport, sounds fun!

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If not being able to be considered for prizes doesn't bother you... I say... go for it! πŸ€—Because of the way in which we use Dreemport to shortlist the entries for final review, we need people to share their posts in Dreemport in order to qualify. Would love to read a drabble from you though !LUV

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πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ’™ It always looks so fun, what you guys do, and good on you for encouraging people! πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ’™

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Thanks, my lovely... I think Dreemport is really helpful for getting more eyes onto content, especially when one is new on the blockchain... and we try to have as much fun as possible as we introduce a variety of communities to new Hivers/Dreemers... Having a place where they can receive daily encouragement and support on their posts, and have a hand to hold in exploring new communities and finding their own tribes, has been invaluable to many. We often receive feedback from new peeps on the blockchain or those who have struggled to get going... that Dreemport gave them the community and support that they didn't have before. Dreem-wotw means a lot to me as, in its earlier iteration as POB-WOTW, it provided my writing inspiration each week in my earliest days on Hive and gave me a wonderful community of writers to hang with... so when the guys running it had to hang up their boots for various personal reasons, I was only too happy to do my bit to keep it going in some form... and bringing it to Dreemport (where I found my tribe with @dreemsteem and co) seemed like the perfect marriage. If you feel inspired, I hope to see a drabble from you regardless. !LUV !LADYπŸ’—

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My innovative, creative Sam. Hehe.

The gifs are just perfect. Hehe.

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hehe... would you believe me that I had absolutely no idea what the challenge or contest would be until this post was written last night... Google to the rescue... hahaha... but yes, I guess I put the effort in to come up with something fun and creative. Thank you, AmberπŸ€— Throwing your hat in the ring this month? I hope you do! !LUV

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Throwing your hat in the ring this month

Thinking of. Hehe

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So, did you? hehe Don't forget to drop it into the Port if you managed to find the time to write. !LUV

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What the heck is a drabble, Sam?

I did chuck a fluff in there and accused you of making things up Sam.

I used to often write the zapfic stories so these are fun, I hope you could send reminding tag on Tuesday?

!ALIVE
!PIZZA
!LOLZ

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making things up?

Moi??? πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Yeah zapfics are great fun...

I think drabbles are more challenging... just long enough to be able to make exceptional use of every word for a complete story... but short enough to make it quite the challenge. I wrote a few for contests a couple of years ago and they always start off a couple of hundred words long and then comes crunch time hehe... learning to tighten one's writing and to include all the elements of a good story in 100 words - definitely a good lesson!

Aah the king of last-minute excellent posts!!! I shall be sending a reminder on Monday... fear not!

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Drabble is such a cool name, mind you it sounds like the Dapp for the rabble!

Okay I will see if I can write it before Tuesday

!LOLZ

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Don't forget to submit it to Dreemport πŸ˜‚ !LUV

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PIZZA!

$PIZZA slices delivered:
samsmith1971 tipped grocko
tengolotodo tipped samsmith1971 (x2)
samsmith1971 tipped kilvnrex
ahmadmanga tipped samsmith1971
@wrestlingdesires(4/15) tipped @samsmith1971 (x3)
samsmith1971 tipped wrestlingdesires
samsmith1971 tipped jjmusa2004
samsmith1971 tipped julianhorack

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Exactly 100 words can be quite challengingπŸ˜… But dreemers got this.

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Just a few hours left if you're still planning to enter a dreem-wotw into Dreemport this evening !LUV

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Thank you for the reminder.

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Sammie, I freaking love you!! (Huge kiss on the cheek). I love this. This is great. Drabbler? (meant dabble, or drabble?) Hey, @jhymi, ever written a drabbler before? πŸ˜‚

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I honestly can't say I have but it sounds mighty interesting...I hope I can come up with something nice.

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hey Tess - did inspiration strike? Don't forget the deadline is midnight UTC today if you still want to submit something !LUV

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Yeah, it definitely did.πŸ€—

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Quite scrumptious indeed. I absolutely !luv this Sam. Another opportunity for Dreemers to really Dreem
Nice drabbling.πŸ˜πŸ’ž
Check this out and see if you're interested @jjmusa2004 and @dianelson

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Thank you for this, I'm grateful

Would check it out

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You're welcome. You'll love the experience.

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I look forward to it

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hey @jjmusa2004 - hope to see an entry from you.Deadline is midnight UTC today. Please let me know if you have any trouble registering on Dreemport or sharing your post. Registration should take 2 minutes and to share simply click on "Earn Dreem" at the top of the website. Then select "Curate". Read and rank the 5 randomly assigned posts and then after completing that... go back to "Earn Dreem" and then select "Submit". !PIZZA

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Thank you so much for your wonderful thought, I've submitted my entry this morning. I'm grateful πŸ€—

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This one should be fun, but really hard 🀣 I did the zapfics a few times, and they really take a lot of thought.

This post has been manually curated by the VYB curation project

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haha Yep... it can be tricky to write a super short story. I hope you get to write one... and ONLY submit it to Dreemport on Tuesday ROFLLLLLL !LOLZ !LUV !PIZZA

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🀣🀣🀣 I do need to learn how to do that, don't I!

!PIZZA !ALIVE !LOL

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!LOLZ !LUV πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Welcome back with amazing prompts. I surely will hop in. Thanks

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100 words... it reminds me of a Haiku, this Drabble. Let me meditate on that...

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I will surely participate in this, it's going to be fun

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Uhm, it so simple, yet so hard. Let give it a shot

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May God permit me to participate in this challenge! I like this. Thank you @samsmith1971 for this opportunity. God bless you!πŸ™

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Hm this wotw will be tricky with the Translation from German, but maybe I try, dear @samsmith1971

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hi @beeber... I don't want to put up unnecessary barriers for anyone as this is all about having fun with writing and challenging ourselves.... So, how about this?... to be fair to those who are not English first language speakers... you share both your original German version and the English Translation and we will use the word count for the German version for you? But will then grade the English translation... Sound ok? πŸ’— !LUV !ALIVE !LADY

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Oh thats a good idea dear thank you ❀️

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You're so welcome. Thank you for raising the issue. Inclusivity is so important !LUV

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!HUG

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Looking forward to your entry dear Beeber... if you managed to write, don't forget to submit it to Dreemport before midnight UTC today !LUV

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I am all set for tomorrow, I think I have the prompt sorted! I guess time will tell . !ALIVE
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Would be interested in joining buh next time would do just fine!😍

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If you have not as yet written your drabble for dreem-wotw then this is a final nudge and reminder... entries need to be shared in Dreemport Tuesday 30th May in order to be eligible for grading and prizes... so less than 24 hours to go peeps...

@abdul-qudus @acgalarza @adoore-eu @ahmadmanga @alonicus @alekst7 @amberkashif @amirtheawesome1 @anonymous02 @aroojkhalid @atyourservice @ayesha-malik @balikis95 @bananzell @beeber @belleflower @blackdaisyft @bluefinstudios @bnbsc @bobthebuilder2 @b0s @buezor @cescajove @chincoculbert @cool08 @coquicoin @corporateay @creatr @daje10 @dansabest9 @darthsauron @deeanndmathews @deraaa @dibblers.dabs @diebitch @d-pend @dreemsteem @dwixer @edystringz @erh.germany @esther-emmanuel @flamistan @fragozar01 @freedomprepper @funshee @george-dee @giftedwriter @grindan @grocko @hannes-stoffel @harryjoe5432 @hazmat @hollowins @hopestylist @idksamad78699 @idlemind @ifarmgirl @ijohnsen @intishar @iskawrites @itsostylish @iwannabeme @jane1289 @jaxsonmurph @jfuji @joseph23 @juliamulcahy @kamarah @kei2 @kemmyb @kenechukwu97 @khaleesii @killerwot @kilvnrex @ksam @leeart @lightpen @litguru @lordtimoty @marbrym @maryjacy @mcyusuf @memeisfun @merit.ahama @mineopoly @mmykel @morenow @mrenglish @mypathtofire @nevies @ngwinndave @nickydee @nkemakonam89 @nonsowrites @oblivioncubed @oceanbee @officialrosh1 @olawalium @olujay @palomap3 @penderis @pinkchic @princessbusayo @queenstarr @raj808 @repayme4568 @restcity @riverflows @sam9999 @shadowspub @simgirl @snook @stevehodl @stevemuis @strangegravy @strega.azure @stuartcturnbull @sunbeam3 @taimen @talon12 @tengolotodo @teknon @timmy-turnip @treasuree @unklebonehead @vikbuddy @wongi @wrestlingdesires @zyzymena

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Where did the time go?!?! 😲😲😲

I better get busy!!!

!PIZZA !ALIVE !LOL !PIMP

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πŸ€£πŸ™„πŸ˜ŽπŸ’—πŸ€£ !LOLZ !LUV

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Um... the clock is ticking... πŸ˜‚ does somebody need a spanking? hahaha Don't forget to submit it after you have written it !LOLZ !LUV

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I'll be doing one just for fun, I got lost in the comments again 🀣

!PIZZA !ALIVE !LOL

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@dreemsteem somebody needs a spanking 🀣🀣🀣

Love you really, @wrestlingdesires πŸ’— What am I gonna do with you? Too blimmin' selfless you are! !LOLZ !LUV !ALIVE (I figure you may need the luck of that last one hahaha)

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Written and ready for submission!

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Yay...I've seen your entry in the Port... will be reading it later this eve :-) !LUV

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my brain is fried hehehe but I. gonna try when baby sleeps!

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I love writing drabbles, the only problem is that I need a specific mindset to actually start writing one. Anyway, I completed mine, and I'll post it shortly (Ψ₯Ω† Ψ΄Ψ§Ψ‘ Ψ§Ω„Ω„Ω‡) after I finish formatting the post.

!PIZZA !LUV

I recorded myself writing the story & comment if you want me to post the recording on Hive. If I got 2 replies, I'll post it.

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oh no, I didn't see this end up in dreemport :-( so it didn't qualify for consideration. If you enter again, make sure you remember to share your post in Dreemport on submission day and if you are having any issues doing so, either tag me, drop into Dreemport discord or DM me and I will help you to get it sorted.

I will go and read it tomorrow though - super tired now... thank you so much for taking the time to write for it !LUV !ALIVE

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Here is my entry:

https://hive.blog/hive-199275/@erh.germany/wolters

Thanks for the reminder, @samsmith1971. :)
I also reblogged. Bye, bye.

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Nooo....I didn't see this in Dreemport πŸ˜”Did you forget to drop it in on submission day? I missed it when it came time to read them all as a result. I will go and read it now though. Next time be sure to pop it in the Port or let us know if you are having any difficulty getting it in. Thank you so much for writing a drabble though inspired by dreem-wotw. Sending you much love πŸ’—!LUV !LADY

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You have already used the number of tips you had for the day. Please try again tomorrow or buy more LOH tokens to send more tips.

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I thought I wouldn't meet up with the time frame, thank God I did, I was really looking forward to the drabble as it had been a while I took up such a challenge.

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aah fantastic! You made the deadline this time then !LOLZ Great to see you taking part again, klvnrex !ALIVE !PIZZA

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I can't believe I just saw this earlier today. However, I just could not pass on it. Thanks for the tag else I would have missed it. I can't wait to read what everyone has. This is great.

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Yay!!! So you wrote for it? That brings a smile to my face πŸ’— !LUV !ALIVE

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Oh yes, I did. I've just made my submission on dreemport.😍😍

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Just posted my drabble on Dreemport. Sam, like I said in my post, I love what you're doing with WOT. The fresh creativity you bring to the format is always inspiring. 🍻

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Thank you, my friend. I keep trying to find new things for people to do... to keep it interesting and different. It makes me happy when we get positive feedback like this. And always open to feedback and suggestions on either end of the scale 😎 I look forward to reading yours!!!

!LUV !ALIVE !PIZZA

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I just submitted minutes ago.... Time moves so fast.

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