Creative Nonfiction in The Ink Well Prompt #81
Welcome to The Ink Well's weekly creative nonfiction prompt!
In this post, we'll announce the winners from last week's contest and 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.
Last Week's entrants
Thank you to all who participated in last week's prompt : Fight or flight
Last week's participants
Featured
Highlighting @deirdyweirdy, with the story:
Superwoman!
I'm not a particularly courageous person, but when faced with physical assault it seems I react with rage. Perhaps it'll be the death of me one day, or maybe it will save my life. More likely the geriatric me will roll over and play dead.
Curator's comment :
D's style is engaging and the piece is humorous with a spike of danger marbled throughout. Recommended reading.
Featured
Highlighting @fashtioluwa, with the story:
It's Just A Game
We all gathered at the field; both the young and old boys were ready to watch the fight. The boys formed a ring around us; some of the boys were cheering for God'swill while the others were cheering for me. The way the boys cheering for me called my name gave me more morale to want to fight "Demola, Demola, Demola." I could hear my name from all corners of the field.
Curator's comment :
Fashtioluwa really sets the scene and commands the reader's attention with this fabulously humorous CNF. Great dialogue, tension building and predictable (in a good way) resolution.
Featured
Highlighting @nathy33, with the story:
The story of your arrival
Yes my love, for me the most beautiful of all the babies I had ever seen in my life. But I keep telling you, something was not right, at first you did not breathe and for that reason they put you in a warm bed until you got better, but several hours went by and I could not see you, my tummy was hurting. But every moment I asked about you, I remembered how his beautiful you looked and the fear passed a little, so I spent that long day.
Curator's comment :
Nathy33 delivers the most wonderful, tearjerking CNF. She relates the story of her son's birth and how she feared for his life because he couldn't breathe on his own. N wears her heart on her sleeve for us to examine: how (at times) she wanted to run away, how tired she was and how her resilience pulled her through so that she could be there for her child when he most needed her. Beautiful!
This Week's Prompt 81:
"Star"
Words or phrases with "star" at the root:
- Star struck
- Shooting star
- Star student
- Star treatment
- Rising star
- Star quality
- Star chef
- Star performance
- Guiding star
- Star attraction
- Star power
- Starry-eyed
- Star-crossed lovers
- Written in the stars
- Star-spangled
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.
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!
Prize
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.
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