The Ink Well Prompt #50: See this post for prompt and rules

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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.

Note: We always launch our prompt posts with important information. So be sure to check it out first! Then we invite you to read on and see what we have in store for this week's prompt.

The January Collaboration with DreemPort Is a Wrap!

We've had a wonderful three weeks collaborating with DreemPort, which selected The Ink Well as their community spotlight for January. You can read about it in our newsletter and the DreemPort Challenge Announcement.

It has been so much fun, and we've loved the opportunity to meet many new people who love to tell short stories!

We do apologize that we were not able to give every story the attention it deserved. The record-breaking number of stories we received (60 per week) definitely kept us hopping. (But good news — we are adding to our admin team as we grow, and will make an announcement soon.)

Congratulations to last week's DreemPort winners, announced here:

We will look forward to more projects with Dreemport in the future!

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Here are answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about The Ink Well.

What Is The Ink Well All About?

The Ink Well is a short story community. This means we only accept short fiction. (Fiction means stories that came from your imagination, not from real life.)

It also means:

No novels, chapter stories or multi-part stories
No poems
No introduction posts
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No memes

Just fictional short stories!

The Ink Well is all about creativity, quality, community, and engagement. As such, we ask the following:

Please take the time to get to know the community and read other writers' work. Everyone who posts in The Ink Well is expected to read and comment on at least two other stories for each piece you post.
See our catalog of fiction writing tips and make use of our resources. (Many of our writers are developing awesome skills, and you can too!)
Put effort into your posts. Review and edit your content for errors before publishing.

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Please read the rules before posting in The Ink Well, as we outline the "do's and don'ts." If you can't find them, you can read them here.

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

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Your story has many grammatical errors. (This is easily fixed with the tips in our post, Help for the Grammatically Challenged.)
Your story lacks some important elements of good fiction, such as character development, dialog, scene details or a story arc. (See our catalog of fiction writing tips for information on these important aspects of short stories.)
Your story lacks originality or does not follow our community rules.

Okay! Let's review fiction entries from last week's prompt and launch a new one.

Stories From the Previous Week

Thank you to everyone who posted a story for last week's prompt, “By the Light of the Moon."

Wow, you guys knocked it out of the ballpark. From werewolves to mysteries, fantasy stories and romances, we had such a rich collection of stories to read. Thank you, everyone!

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

And She Opened Her Heart Completely, by @ifarmgirl
A Shadow Walker and the Siokoy Army, by @juanvegetarian
I Can See Clearly...What's the Matter with You?, by @bobthebuilder2
Moonlight, by @itsostylish
My Love, by @kaerpediem
A Fantasy Tale, by @deraaa
Chasing Rainbows, by @samsmith1971
Tales We Told, by @myztiqakusuk
The Boy Who Became King Under the Full Moon, by @emeka002
A Tale That Began and Ended By the Light of The Moon, by @rayt2
Acceptance, by @bruno-kema
My Beloved Dansi, by @zeraton
The Adventure of Monin and Stripes, by @marcybetancourt
Eva's Secret, by @milezofplay
Journey of Destiny, by @cool08
White Nify Giant, by @mrenglish
Made for Each Other, by @princessbusayo
The Strange Legacy of Cappadocia, by @kayleya
Roots of All Evil, by @sonofremi
John Solomon's Treasure, by @diebitch
Change Is Not the Cat's Pajamas, by @lordtimoty
Special Connection, by @b0s
The Impostor, by @playhouse
Drowning for Love, by @ghost.queen
By the Light of the Moon, by @mosin-nagant
Epiphany, by @joalheal
The Hunters Moon, by @rimamty
Yes, I Was Blinded by Love, by @iskafan
The Moon Light, by @mcluz
I Will See You Again, by @marbrym
Tale by Moonlight, by @dwixer
Conflict and Hope in the Moonlight, by @radenkusumo666
She loves him in the moon light on the mountain, by @fantom22
Following the Moon, by @khaleesii
Promises Made Under the Full Moon, by @kingkenny44
The Accursed, by @piratethanos
The Fall of Man Is Not the End of His Life, by @raymondpeter
The Goddess of Mmirinasa, by @ellenklech
The Unexpected Unplanned Affection, by @readthisplease
Moonlight King, by @obrisgold1
Unlikely Treasure, by @abmakko
The Destiny of Obiagu the Great Warrior, by @chidubem26
Fated by Moonlight, by @stellageorge
Awaken by the Light of the Moon, by @farahikram
Love Conquers, by @joseph23
Moon of Destiny, by @iyimoga
Apexs, by @jadams2k18
Wrong Wolf, by @vincric
The Moon Adventure, by @tough
By the Light of the Moon, by @strangegravy
The Curse of the 13th Moon, by @deeanndmathews
Madly in Love with the Moon, by @gracielaacevedo
Full Moon Ritual, by @ricardo993
Over the Moon, by @nonsowrites
Like a Second Hand, by @amirtheawesome1
A Symposium of Souls: Narah-el's Story, by @khoola
The Unfulfilled Curse, by @merit.ahama
By the Light of the Moon, by @ayesha-malik
I Finally Let Go, by @lhorgical
Lonely Night, by @jerryzikko

Well done, everyone!

This Week’s Prompt

At last, the prompt of the week!

This week's prompt is Three words: Shoes, mood, adventure.

Here in The Ink Well, we occasionally do three-word prompts. For example, we once had a prompt for the words "journey, bacon, and window," and another prompt featured the words "island, witch and cake.

How does a three-word prompt work? It's pretty simple! All you have to do is write a story that includes those three words! Start by letting the words roll around in your imagination. Think about how and why they might all integrate into one story. Then start writing!

We hope that will get your imaginations started. We look forward to reading your stories!

Note: As always, please avoid gory, bloody, brutal, sexist or racist themes and language, erotica and other NSFW (not safe for work) content, and stories featuring abuse of women, children or animals.

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:

Weekly Prompt Rules:

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 in the next prompt post.)
Story link: Post your story in The Ink Well community, and post a link to your story in a comment on this post.
Hashtags: Please use these hashtags: #fiction #writing #inkwellprompt #theinkwell and #dreemport, if you are also posting your story to the DreemPort site.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Visit the work of at least two other community members and comment on their work.
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.
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.
Length: We request that story word counts are a maximum of 1,500 words maximum length (preferably 750-1000 words). This is just a guideline. Longer stories tend to get fewer readers. Additionally, The Ink Well admins appreciate keeping to that maximum story length for our time management!

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, children, or animals, or that have excessive gore or violence, and we must mute them. Please do not post these stories in The Ink Well. We want our community to be a safe and comfortable place for all readers.

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
#14 Railroad
#15 Cats - 750 words
#16 Your Birthday
#17 Action, Dialog and Narrative
#18 Change
#19 Tea Time or Tee Time?
#20 Summer Camp
#21 Main Street
#22 Fireworks
#23 Picnic
#24 Run
#25 A word of advice
#26 Winding road
#27 Mirror
#28 Shipwreck
#29 School Notes
#30 Three Words: Scooter, River, Midnight
#31 Flash Fiction Contest
#32 A Fork in the Road
#33 Shadows
#34 Three Words: Island, Witch, Cake
#35 Full Moon
#36 Graveyard
#37 Jack-o-Lantern
#38 Family Ties
#39 Longing
#40 Feast
#41 Gift
#42 Season of Light
#43 Believe
#44 Elf
#45 Holiday
#46 New Year
#47 Unlikely Hero
#48 Inheritance
#49 Under the Light of the Moon

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@jayna, @agmoore, @gracielaacevedo and @wrestlingdesires

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