The Ink Well Prompt #14: Railroad

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Hello and welcome to the The Ink Well weekly fiction prompt. The Ink Well is a Hive blockchain-based social media community of creative writers. If you love to write short stories, we invite you to join us. Or peruse the work of our community members.

Important

Before you post in our community, please be sure to read the community rules (right side of the page) where we outline the "do's and don'ts" for posting in The Ink Well.

Our community rules are designed to make our community a safe, welcoming, plagiarism-free space for self-publishing original short stories.

Also, a word on community engagement. We want to thank all of the community members who have taken the time to read other members' work and provide comments. Authors, please remember that reading and commenting on at least two other writers' stories is one of the weekly prompt rules. This ensures that we have a thriving community. Note that we will only be selecting stories for the weekly magazine by authors who are engaging with other members' posts.

Okay! Let's review fiction highlights from last week and start a new prompt.

Highlights of the Week

Thank you to everyone who posted a story for last week's prompt, “50 Imagination Ticklers," which provided 50 story-launching ideas.

Here are the week's prompt stories. Be sure to read and support these authors for their work!

• The Ink Well Prompt #13, by @katleya
• The World We Know, by @bruno-kema
• The Spot, by @dwixer
• Commander Jack's Defeat, by @gracielaacevedo
• Handkerchief, by @jadams2k18
• The Jetty, by @young-boss-karin
• The First Human, by @ricardo993
• Vertran Stepforth Pops the Question, by @deeanndmathews
• Life After Death, by @ubani
• Arachnic Thoughts, by @almightycrypto
• Teatime with Kate, by @stormcharmer
• Sarah the Innocent, by @seesladen
• What If Purple Had a Sound, by @seesladen
• Dele's Terrible Moment, by @iyimoga
• Railroad | Push, by @marlyncabrera

This Week’s Prompt

The prompt for this week is Railroad.

For this prompt, think about what trains and railroads mean to you, or what interesting adventure your character might take on a train, or walking down the tracks.

Trains take us places. They bring relatives to visit. They bring soldiers home from war. Train tracks are places to wander and daydream. Trains have an enchanting ability to transport us to the past or to the future or to any destination.

And of course trains come in all sizes. There are model railroads and toy trains and tiny trains that transport families around amusement parks.

Where will you take your story?

Good luck! And be sure to remember the important elements of good fiction:

• A good setting
• Character development
• Conflict
• Dialog
• A story arc and resolution

If you don't feel inspired by this prompt or the featured image, feel free to peruse any of our past prompts or our collection of idea-generators:

• Prompt #6: 50 Story Ideas
• Prompt #13: 50 Imagination Ticklers

Weekly Prompt Rules:

1. Deadline: You have a week to write for the prompt, until the next one is posted. (Note: You can write for any of the prompts anytime. This is just a guideline to be included in the weekly round-up of highlights.)
2. Hashtags: Please use these hashtags: #fiction #writing #inkwellprompt #theinkwell.
3. Story link: Post a link to your story in a comment on this post.
4. Community support: Visit the work of at least two other community members and comment on their work.
5. Title: The title is up to you. You can come up with any title you wish. You do not need to name it after the prompt or include the prompt word.
6. Images: Please only use images from license free and creative commons sites, like Pixabay, Unsplash and Pexels. Images you find on the Internet are copyright protected and cannot be used. Be sure to provide the source link.

Reminder: Be sure to also read our community rules. The reason for the repeat reminder is that we see many stories describing brutality of women or that have excessive gore, and we must mute them. Please do not post these stories in The Ink Well.

Here are the past prompts if you would like to use them or refer back to them:

• #1: Heart and Soul
• #2: The moment when...
• #3: Beauty with a twist
• #4: The Way Home
• #5: A Matter of Time
• #6 50 Story Ideas
• #7 The Library
• #8 All the way to tomorrow
• #9 Legend
• #10 Three Words
• #11 World Building
• #12 Childhood Summers
• #13 50 Imagination Ticklers

We look forward to reading your stories!

@jayna, @agmoore and @gracielaacevedo

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