Creative Nonfiction Prompt #98

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Creative Nonfiction in The Ink Well Prompt #98


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Welcome to The Ink Well's weekly creative nonfiction prompt!

In this post, we'll provide the prompt for the coming week.


Before You Write Your Creative Nonfiction Post...


We ask that you read our Creative Nonfiction Tips post to learn about the creative nonfiction genre and review our guidelines.


Important notes:

  • Creative nonfiction stories are based on your real-life experiences.
  • We are looking for real short stories! Not advice columns, reports on crime or corruption in your city, observations on nature, recipes, religion, politics, or any other nonfiction content. Just real-life short stories.
  • Ideal story length is between 750 and 1500 words, but your story must be at least 350 words, at a minimum to be curated.
  • Please focus on quality content. Read and edit for errors! Use a grammar checker before you post your story.
  • We expect everyone who posts in The Ink Well to read and comment on at least two other stories for each one published.
  • Do not post stories featuring physical abuse, graphic violence, erotica or NSFW content.

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Last Week's entrants

Thank you to all who participated in last week's prompt : Through thick and thin

Last week's participants

@abdul-qudus@abigail04@abrarhussain
@adese@beauty197@beckyroyal
@bipolar95@bisolamih@coolbabe88
@eberechi01@fashtioluwa@iskawrites
@iyimoga@jennyzee1@jezmaine
@marriot5464@marynn@nancybriti1
odunola@omolayo@osomar357
@rafzat@rare-gem@ridgette
@riverflows@storygoddess@ubdan313
@vickiee@yummycruz1@zerah

Featured

Highlighting @nancybriti1, with the story:

As if you were the gift

It's nice to know you can count on someone, but it's wonderful to have someone say they can count on you. It's like instead of receiving a gift from the universe, you are the gift the universe gives someone.

Curator's comment :

nancybriti1 writes the most lovely creative nonfiction story about her grandmother, her love for her, and her jealousy when some other cousins came to visit and captured her grandmother's attention. A beautiful story, lovingly and realistically told.

Featured

Highlighting @ridgette, with the story:

Stepping Out

That night, I wore an all-black outfit. Black dress, black hair ribbon, and back shoes. It's kinda my way of protesting because I'm not really fond of attending social events, but for the sake of my persistent best friend, I gave in.

Curator's comment :

This CNF for the prompt about her reluctance to attend the prom demos a clear understanding of the mechanism necessary to produce a good story. Ultimately, the piece, with its sad ending, does much to invoke sympathy from the reader (perhaps a bit of empathy too). Well structured dialogue, interesting character development and an engaging tale!

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This Week's Prompt 98:

Once in a blue moon

The phrase means :- something that occurs very rarely

Ideas :

  • Perhaps your family members only get together on rare occasions, but you make up for the fact that these events only occur once in a blue moon by making everything about the experience ultra special.
  • Maybe your boss only shows his or her appreciation on rare occasions, but when he does, you revel in the pecuniary windfall.

Tell us about it! And remember to integrate storytelling elements like characters, scene setting, dialogue and action to bring your story to life!

Have fun and good luck! We look forward to reading your stories.

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Rules

  • You have 6 days to write your story from the date of this prompt post. Be sure to check the deadline countdown.
  • Write a real-life story with the creative elements of fiction, like characters, dialogue, scene setting and a story conflict.
  • Post your story in The Ink Well Community.
  • Please use the tags #creativenonfiction and #inkwellprompt on these posts. Other possible tags: #writing #inkwellprompt #nonfiction
  • Stories must be written in English. If you've translated the post, it's best to add the original version below the translation. Do not write mixed language paragraphs.
  • Read and comment on at least two stories in the community. Add a link to your story as a comment on this post.

And be sure to remember to join The Ink Well community!

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A prize of 20 Hive will be awarded to one submission every four weeks.

Procedure

Two or three stories will be featured every week. One of the featured stories will win the grand prize every four weeks.

The winner will be featured in a special announcement post.

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     2 months ago  

    Congratulations to everyone who participated, let's go again

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       2 months ago  

      Always honored and happy for your words. Thank you very much. See you this week. May the successes continue

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         2 months ago  

        Congratulations to all selected writers 🌼

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           2 months ago  

          Thanks for the appreciation! I'm really thrilled that mine was one of the featured ones. Congratulations also to the other featured writing prompts, as well as to those who participated in the last writing prompt.

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             2 months ago (edited) 

            Congrats to them
            I supported @iskawrites @jennyzee1
            Here is my link

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               2 months ago  

              Congratulations to winners you guys did well.

              Here is my entry.

              https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@abdul-qudus/my-dearest-ones-9gx

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                 2 months ago  

                Good day people! Here's my entry for this week's prompt:

                https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@ridgette/when-it-calls-the-rain

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