Nightmare Fuel Project, 2021
Typically a do a countdown to the start of the project every year during the course of September, hearkening back to when it first began in the first year of Google Plus and during September hundreds of people asked to contribute art or play along writing stories of their own. This year's countdown was interrupted by a personal tragedy.
Because nighttime nightmares weren't enough for the universe anymore, I suppose.
In the beginning, I began this project because every autumn, for anywhere from several nights to several weeks, I could not sleep without having nightmares. Anticipating the coming time in which my own brain would torture me so that I would wake constantly or lapse into insomnia rather than suffering my own mind, I conceived of writing some horror every day and posting it on my blog. People dug the idea, so I started sharing prompt images for folks to join in. It shifted from a sole and personal project to something strangely and beautifully communal.
Thus, the Nightmare Fuel Project was born.
The Rules, such as they are:
1. Nobody is required to participate at all, let alone every day. There is no failing or falling behind. there are simply days you do write, and days you do not. There is no losing, because there is nothing to win except perhaps for me shedding my nightmares for a while.
2. I post a prompt image every morning (or sometimes late the night before).
3. I will reblog the prompt and post what I have written each evening.
3a. When possible I will reblog other people’s doings as well. If you don’t want me to reblog your response tag it “no reblog” or similar, please.
4. My focus is largely on horror and the prompts are geared toward that - but whatever the image inspires in you to write, write it. The constraints I apply to myself are for myself. Feel free to follow them if you wish.
5. This is the biggie that I tend to fall down on….which is posting what I’ve written every day. It doesn’t need to be good. It doesn’t need to be complete. It just needs to exists. Outside of my head. So I can sleep.
This is the 2021 Masterpost, which I will come back to regularly and edit in links to each day's prompt so they're easy to find - and I'll pin this post as well, to save you on searching for it.
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Day 1 prompt
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