Hello and welcome to the The Ink Well weekly fiction prompt and prize announcement! 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. Special Reminder: In addition to the weekly fiction challenge we offer a monthly challenge. Check out January's Prompt Post. 10 Hive to the winner! What Is The Ink Well All About? The Ink Well is all about creativity, quality, community, and engagement. As such, we ask the following: What are the community rules? You can find our community rules at the top of The Ink Well community (right side of the page). 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. We do not allow stories depicting violence, brutality, or abuse of women, children or animals. If you have questions, please read this article explaining our stance on violence. What does it take to get rewards in The Ink Well?? We refer you to the above description of what The Ink Well is about. If you are not getting great rewards, it is likely for one of the following reasons: Important tips! Time for the prize announcement and new challenge! Last week's prompt was Comfort and the skill challenge was to focus on writing character descriptions. This community really came through with surprising, amazing stories! Many of our writers created original, memorable stories in response to the prompt. Our selections of this week's winners and honorable mentions reflect how well writers dealt with this prompt and skill challenge. Update! We are excited to share that in addition to our first place winner, we are awarding a second and third place. We also will be selecting honorable mentions. For second and third place we are awarding Hive Basic Income (HBI). The third place winner receives 2 HBI and the second place winner receives 3 HBI. Here are this week's honorable mentions, all of them writing in response to the prompt and skill challenge. Honorable Mentions She approached the bed and saw Thais lying like a tender animal, her snores echoing in the room, her body sprawled out, her face lax and her eyes half open; that scenario that for anyone else would have meant a vulgar and unpleasant demonstration, for her was a beautiful irresistible landscape. Ruth climbed Agapito's body to transport her through the sky. The young girl could contemplate the infinite oceans full of water, mountains with bushes so high that they almost touched them, until they arrived at their destination Adeia gasped, fluttered her wings and quickly landed softly beside the thicket. A long and loud hiss from within the dense thicket made her heart skip a beat. It was the hiss of a trapped anaconda. Once the chair was safely situated on the veranda, Peria couldn't resist the temptation to sit down and start rocking. It was a hot summer day, but the chair was so comfortable that she soon found herself getting drowsy. She closed her eyes and let herself drift off, lulled by the gentle motion of the chair Roaming around her pink and white painted room with dolls all around and a queen-sized bed, a walk-in closet, and some other fancy girly kinds of stuff, she hissed out. She just want to be out in the open without guards on her trail or reporters trying to make her the headline for the day. Third Place: Wins 2 HBI And then everything was focused on finding a way to escape. His strength was such that with all his energy he tried to reach the lid of the bottle in those moments in which the bottle was kept in a horizontal position, and this allowed him to crawl. But when he came within a few millimeters of his goal... he fell irremediably to the bottom. Second Place: Wins 3 HBI He floats towards me. One second his voice is distant as if he is standing by the entrance a few meters away from where I stand. The next second he is hugging me from behind, tucking his nose in my neck. And the winner of the Comfort/create a descriptive character challenge is...@jackdeathblack the story There Are no Bad Days, Just Days. Congratulations, @jackdeathblack. You will receive 5 Hive! The soldier could not contain the impact of seeing two children protecting themselves and a tear escaped him, that image broke him inside, but with nothing else to do, he turned around and tried to lead the others in the opposite direction. Okay, let's review fiction entries from last week's prompt and launch a new one. @deraaa Thank you to everyone who posted a story for last week's prompt! The Ink Well is fortunate to have many members who are eager to write. It would be wise to use talent on the best story you can write so you can receive the optimal curation. Remember, Quality over Quantity. Please Note: The Inkwell curators read many creative submissions each week. Ideally, we would comment and curate each piece. However, there are physical limitations, which include time. It may be the case that stories are submitted and are not curated. We do try to curate every piece but that may not happen. At last, the prompt of the week! **When you write for the prompt, you don't have to use the exact word. Derive inspiration from it. Fate has many applications. Use your imagination and come up with a original interpretation of this prompt. Here are some Fate examples to help you get started on a story. You can probably come up with much more interesting ideas of your own. A week from now, we will select a winning story that demonstrates this skill and utilizes the prompt. Of course, we will also be looking for overall quality in the winning story. Good luck! Note: As always, please avoid violent, 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. (We have a complete article about The Ink Well stance on violence and brutality for more information.) 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: 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: Thank you for being a part of The Ink Well!
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This week's prompt is Fate. Our skill challenge will be to create a strong narrative arc. @jayna has written a great essay about story arcs in the Catalog of Fiction Writing Tips.
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