Challenge Open June 2025 Writing Challenge

[JamesMartin]

Happy Pride Month, Sanctum!!

This month's prompt, we'll be shining a light on all colours of the rainbow:

Write a Scene that Goes Through All Colours of the Rainbow In Order

Is red or violet first? Up to you. Synonyms are allowed!!. As always, prompts are open to interpretation. So long as general site rules are followed and the prompt is attempted, anything goes. Entries that do not attempt the prompt will be excluded from voting. Badges will be awarded to all participants, courtesy of @Rose for the Hunter, with a special one for the winner.

New this month: To try and make voting a little easier and encourage polishing of entries, we are imposing a word limit. Maximum 1500 words!! The count on site will be the deciding factor, we'll adjust this count based on feedback. If you wish to write a longer entry, feel free to post it in Bard's Tales and limit your actual entry to only an excerpt.

As an additional note, please do not use any non-standard or colour-changed fonts, either in the titles or in the entries.

Please post all entries as a thread in this forum (Link) with a unique title. The Deadline for this month is Sunday, June 22nd. Please have all entries posted by 6 PM that evening (EST)

Congratulations to @chap for winning the May Writing Challenge and thank you to all participants for their excellent work!!

We look forward to seeing your stories!!

Be sure to keep casting your daily votes for the Sanctum. You can do so by clicking here!

Also, be sure to check the announcement's server for an important stream update!!!

 

[WhatISeemIAm]

A word limit doesn't give people more time to polish it forces people to spend more time economising, which is not the same thing at all, in addition to making longer narratives untenable. No one who enjoys writing longer entries will welcome it and it will change nothing for people who write shorter ones. For my part if I want to write to someone else's prompt, deadline and be obliged to meet an arbitrary word limit there are competitions with actual cash prizes I can enter.