Ea Skyrah

you’re lying on mossy forest floors, slowly transforming into a nymph, your fingers are turning into flower vines, your limbs are bleeding honey & growing thick skins of sepia bark, wings sprout in between your shoulder blades. your breath sounds like the wind. fireflies litter the air above you

you’re hold up in an abandoned church, outside there’s a raging storm & a horde of zombies roaming around, pressing up against the entrance doors. you & a small band of survivors are staying inside for the night in hopes to ride the bad weather out. you take first watch & listen to these tunes on an old ipod while everyone else tries to get some rest & the undead crawl outside, awaiting the taste of human flesh.

you’re in your boyfriend’s pickup. he’s asleep in the passenger seat, you’re driving without a destination in mind & you have the window down as you let the cool night air whip against your face in a state of pleasant delirium you’re on a rooftop somewhere, there’s 5 am air on your skin, streetlights glint like coins at the bottom of wishing wells from where you sit. you’re feeling peaceful for the first time all week

you’re lying in the middle of a crop circle forty miles from your grandma’s old house waiting for aliens to come and abduct you

it’s four pm in the afternoon and you’ve got your head in the lap of the only boy you’ve ever loved & you’re reading jane eyre & he’s sipping on tea & it’s the kind of weather where it’s just warm enough for you to pretend it’s summer & it’s drizzling & you’re listening to the rain beat softly against the windowpanes you’re curled up in bed as it pours outside, there’s a citywide blackout and the last candle you had left has finally blown out, but you feel strangely at peace within the warm, all-consuming dark

Hello brave writers!

We present you the Dare to Write Challenge, a challenge for every writer, poet and dreamer out there.

How it works Below the cut you’ll find a list of 500 different prompts to creatively use in either way you prefare; write a drabble, a short story, a collection, poems, art poems or whatever you like and feel inspired for. You don’t need to write all 500 of them. We’ll include a couple of steps that will allow you less than the maximum of 500 prompts. No maximum words for a prompts and there’s no due date so you all can take as long as you need. Don’t stress yourself over it, think of it as some kind of practise and little achievement for yourself.

Steps Each time you complete a step you get a colored achievement badge with your name on it. You don’t have to finish all 500, you can also just chose to write 25 for example.

black - 25 prompts

violet - 50 prompts

navy - 100 prompte

green - 150 prompts

rose - 200 prompts

red - 250 prompts

yellow - 300 prompts

rainbow - 365 prompts

silver - 400 prompts

gold - 500 prompts

Rules

one prompt per story/poem/etc.

everything needs to be your own creation

any way to express yourself (original fiction, poetr, fanfiction, drabbles etc.)

any length that you prefer

any fandoms, genres, pairings, ratings, crossovers, collaborations etc. are allowed

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if you want to enter send an email to [email protected] - we will add you to the list here and update your stories/poetry once you post something new; like this everyone can find your works faster

post your prompt works with the #daretowrite tag 

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you don’t have to do the prompts in order, just take whatever prompt inspires you

500 Prompts List