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Dear community, Welcome to Prompt #17 in our creative nonfiction initiative. Thank you to everyone who contributed a nonfiction story last week. Here's a quick overview of how it works: Each week, we provide a creative nonfiction prompt. You are also welcome to post other creative nonfiction pieces that are not based on the prompt. See the guidelines below. To be curated, your content should follow our guidelines, be at least 350 words (but ideally 750 -1500 words), be written in English, or another language as well as the English translation, and — as much as possible — free of errors. We also expect everyone who posts stories in The Ink Well to read and comment on the work of at least two other community members for each story published. (Thank you!) There are many guides and resources online for getting to know this wonderful genre. It is truly about storytelling. The simple difference between creative nonfiction and fictional stories is that the story is not made up. We like this definition from an article on creativenonfiction.org: Simply put: Creative nonfiction is true stories, well told. With creative nonfiction, you are using the literary and storytelling tools of a fiction writer to craft stories from real life experiences. Set the scene. Give the details. Profile the characters. Give us the dialog, as best you can remember it. Ideas and inspiration: Creative nonfiction stories can be snippets from your life autobiography — moments in time you want to capture in words, whether they were frightening, enlightening, bittersweet, or life-altering. They can be observations about life, about a time you connected at a profound level with a perfect stranger, or something you have learned along the way that made you a better person. Do you love podcasts? One of the greatest sources of creative nonfiction is The Moth Radio Hour. Listen to a few of the stories from The Moth, and we guarantee you will be inspired. Here are some additional resources for learning more about the creative nonfiction genre: Check out this list of creative nonfiction stories. For example, one of the stories is about a funeral for a lizard named Rango. We hope you are inspired! Here are some examples of what we are looking for: In other words, tell a story from real life. And illustrate the ideas you share with real world experiences, memories and observations. Here’s what we are NOT looking for: What will be muted: Thank you to all who participated in last week's prompt: Friendship! We enjoyed reading about the meaning of good friends. Writers who joined in the fun: Our honorable mentions for last week's prompt are: Our third place winner is @dianelson, with her story, For Not So Ever. We became inseparable after that. You couldn't see her without seeing me. Our names couldn't have been more different but people sometimes confused the name for one another. It finally happened. I found my person. That one person that existed in my tiny bubble with me. We did the silliest of things like walk under the rain, dress to match, sit on flyovers instead of walking across it. I think my favourite part was when we would stay awake and laugh into the night for no reason in particular or when we would go to her grandma's place, visit the stream and place our head in the water. I've never felt more at peace with my life than in those moments. Our second place winner is @nkemakonam89 with her story An Act of Kindness. Sometime in January 2020, I was pregnant with my last child, and my family and I needed to relocate to another area still in Lagos. If you have relocated from one location to another with properties, you will understand the stress that is usually involved. I thought of how to pack all our family luggage with pregnancy and I knew it wasn't going to be easy for me considering how busy my husband can be. I was sitting on my sofa when I heard a knock at the gate, I peeped and saw Stella. I welcomed her and we got talking, I informed her of our sudden relocation and how I am not finding it easy to start packing our loads. She immediately blamed me for not calling on her when such an update came up. She asked if she can begin immediately helping out and I said yes. Stella didn't want me to bend down to pick any properties, she would always stop me if I try to assist her. In her words, she said, "please do not stress that unborn child while I am here". Our first place winner is @jetta.amaya, with her story, Sonia's Thorns. Sonia Rosas was the name of that girl with whom I shared my confidences, my early anguish, my moments of games and laughter, my trips to the movies and the overwhelming demands of school. Her beauty was simple, fine brown hair, soft brown skin, short stature, slim build, small eyes subtly drawn; just as her last name presumed, a rose in the garden of my youth. But roses have thorns and she had some in store for me. Congratulations, @dianelson, @nkemakonam89 and @jetta.amaya! Our days are full of some combination of chores, family, work, relaxation, and activities or projects, like hobbies, crafts or posting on Hive. "A day in the life" is an expression that means: the typical things that happen in your day. For this prompt, there are several possible approaches you could take. For example: Have fun and good luck! We look forward to reading your stories. Please use the tags #creativenonfiction and #inkwellprompt on these posts. And please remember to add your post link to a comment on this post! NOTE: Please refrain from providing advice, guidance, or suggestions to others about their life choices in your post. Creative nonfiction is about storytelling. Prizes! Deadline You have a week, until the next prompt is posted, to post your creative nonfiction story in The Ink Well community. However, note that we are going to be posting one day earlier next week, on Friday. So you have just six days. See you in The Ink Well!
What Is Creative Nonfiction?
-- Reedsy blog: What is Creative Nonfiction? The Unputdownable Truth
-- Writers.com: Understanding Creating Nonfiction: What It Is and How to Write ItGuidelines for Creative Nonfiction Articles in The Ink Well
Last Week's Creative Nonfiction Winners
Honorable Mentions of the Week
Third Place: Wins 1,000 Ecency points
Second Place: Wins 3 Hive
First Place: Wins 5 Hive
The Ink Well Creative Nonfiction Writing Prompt #17: A Day in the Life
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Wowwww
My first time winning in this community. I am so much excited 😊
Congratulations to me and the other winners, the honorable mentions, and all those that participated 👏👍
Looking forward to writing on the new topic soon
Congratulations to you. You told a lovely story.
Awwwwwn
Thank you so much momogrow
Congratulations, I did enjoyed your story.
Thank you so much Funshee dear ❤️
❤🥰anytime
Congratulations 👏!
Thank you Stella
Congratulations @nkemakonam89!
Thank you so much
I rejoice with you, Sis. Congratulations. Keep winning and succeeding dear
Thank you so much Ada dear 💖🥰
Thank you for this opportunity, I always look forward to this community and prompts
Congratulations to the winners and I am really happy about the special mention. It's another week for the creative nonfiction contest and I am surely participating again this week.
Please I want to know if it is okay to share two post in a week because there can't be five days interval if I am to participate in the fiction and non fiction prompt.
I love to write both.
It's fine, @george-dee. We no longer have that requirement. We only ask that our community members focus on quality, not quantity. Thank you for asking!
Congratulations to all the winners - your stories were great to read.
Congratulations everyone! 😊
It was a wonderful prompt.
Congratulations to all the winners and honorable mentions.
I really like this week's prompt.
Thank you Inkwell for such insightful topics.
I'm so glad they inspire you, @stellageorge!
Congratulations to this weeks winners, onto another week.
Congratulations, @dianelson, @nkemakonam89 and @jetta.amaya
Big shout-out to all the honourable mentions
Thank you so much bro ❤️
Thank you❤️😊.
Congratulations to the winner's, I hope to be one of the winner's someday...
Post link https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@kingsleymark/appearance-guide-max-s-journey
My comment on @wrestlingdesires and @newton666
Here's the the link to my entry
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@dianelson/the-days-of-my-life
Congratulations to all the writers who distinguished themselves this week and who were honored in today's post.
What a prompt! Oh my. So many ideas must be rushing through the minds of Inkwell's community members. This will surely be a banner week for creative nonfiction.
I hope so, @agmoore! I love to see what people come up with from these prompts. It tickles me pink. Hugs to you, my friend!
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Congrats to the winners...
Here's my entry https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@chincoculbert/the-moon-smiled-back-at-me... Engaged with other authors
Congratulations 🎊 to the winners. Can’t wait to share my perfect imaginary day.
Congratulations to all winners, it was well deserved
my entry,
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@fantom22/badminton-creative-nonfiction-in-the-ink-well-prompt-17
Here is my entry:
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@joycealarapon/first-day-in-uni?referral=joycealarapon
Here comes my entry https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@cypher09/that-special-friday?referral=cypher09
I've read the works of @bornben & @edgarafernandezp
Congratulations to the winners, it was really an interesting read from them. Looking forward to the next entries.
Here is my entry
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@nkemakonam89/a-typical-day-in-my
I supported @dianelson and @chincoculbert
Congratulations to all the winners. this is my entry.
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@lrscarmen/an-everyday-but-unforgettable-day
Congratulations to the winners and the honorable mentioned.
Here is my entry;
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@lightpen/my-typical-day
Here is my entry
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@princessbusayo/a-piece-of-a-young?referral=princessbusayo
I engaged with @nkemakonam89 @cypher09 @joycealarapon
Every week it's great to see some amazing prompts to write and the writings from the authors are also very enjoyable to read.
My entry for this week: https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@minhajulmredol/an-unplanned-day-or-creative-nonfiction
Congratulations to all winners of the last week prompt.
All writers are winner.
Keeping writing, folks.
Here is my entry for the week
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@mrenglish/every-day-of-my-life-inkwell-creative-non-fiction-prompt-17
I have supported the works of @princessbusayo and @ipexito
Here is my entry
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@rukkie/a-typical-workday-in-my-life
I supported @mrenglish and @princessbusayo
Congratulations to all the week's winners and the honourable mentions. Here's my entry for this week's prompt
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@diikaan/just-another-day
Here is my entry, thank you
and I have supported @nkemakonam89 @princessbusayo and @lightpen
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@funshee/a-typical-day-with-my-heroes-in-it
Supported @Rukkie @mrenglish @funshee
Here is my entry for this week creativenonfiction prompt: https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@george-dee/life-became-more-beautiful-my
Supported @gorge-dee @fantom22
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@princess-dara/my-daily-activities
@theinkwell, This is my entry to the contest
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@pjpavan/a-day-in-the-life
Here is my entry.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@amiegeoffrey/what-my-friday-looks-like-as-a-fashion-designer-
I engage with @rukkie @nkemakonam89, @mrenglish, and @princessbusayo
I supported @pjpavan and @george-dee.
Here's my link: https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@dennnmarc/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-university-filipino-boy
Congratulations to all the winners. It's a beautiful Thursday. Here is my entry.
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@deraaa/that-day?referral=deraaa
Supported @lydiapauline @bornben & @dennnmarc
This is my entry to the contest; https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@kenechukwu97/a-typical-day-in-my
Here's my entry🥰:
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@jhymi/the-perfect-day
I supported @princessbusayo, @funshee, @amiegeoffrey
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@abdul-qudus/a-day-of-my-life
Supported @jhymi @kenechukwu97
Here is my entry for this week. Good luck everyone!
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@borderline.babe/a-typical-day-of-alissa
Also, I hope my contribution on others' work is not going unnoticed? I am frequently told to interact with members in the community every week, and every week I do 😅 Thank you
My entry for this week prompt
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@hazmat/visiting-the-north
I caught this prompt even on the last day, here is my entry; https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@ipexito/the-day-i-want-to
I like your articles very much @lydiapauline and @bornben
Please find here my entry:
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@momogrow/story-time-a-perfect-day
I have engaged with several writers.
Here is the link to my entry
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@safari-bangz/my-cousin-visit?referral=safari-bangz
Engaged with other authors
Being selected as a winner in the inkwell is a great joy for me. I thank everyone for reading and appreciating my creative nonfiction story. We will continue to share and nurture each other.
Here Is my link....
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@balikis95/it-s-friday-let-the
I engaged with @dianelson, @nickydee, and @jackdeathblack.