Thanks for checking out our monthly newsletter, where we share news and updates, provide all kinds of helpful tips, and announce the winner(s) of the previous month's contest for the best overall story of the month.
Here are the topics in this newsletter:
- Topic of the Month from The Ink Well: Where to Find Our Tips and Guidelines
- Winner(s) from the December Contest!
- January Contest
- Find Us on Discord
- Delegate to The Ink Well / Follow Our Curation Trail
Topic of the Month from The Ink Well: Where to Find Our Tips and Guidelines
You may remember our past newsletters, which included a collection of guidelines and tips for writing and participating successfully in The Ink Well community.
You will no longer find them in our monthly newsletters, but rest assured they are always available, because they are now in their own article, pinned to the top of The Ink Well community. We will also include the link to the article in our newsletters and weekly prompt posts. Check it out here.
Winner(s) from the December 2024 Contest!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our December fiction contest by writing stories for our fiction prompts throughout the month. If you submitted a story for any of our weekly fiction prompts, you were automatically entered into the monthly contest.
In addition to our winner of the month, we have selected several honorable mentions.
Our Winner!
Our top story of the month for December, 2024, winning a prize of 20 Hive is....
@kei2, with her story, But Always, A Warrior Comes Home.
@kei2 offers a fantasy tale that is credible. This is quite an achievement. She tells of a young woman who is the worst warrior in her community. A neighboring royal seeks her hand. It turns out, she was sought because she was to be sacrificed to a horrible monster. However, she has a strength that no one knows about. She sings to the forest and the forest responds. When she falls to the lair where the monster lives she sings to the forest there. The birds and the trees carry her away, and save her. The infuriated monster turns his rage instead on the royals who had plotted her death. A beautifully written, perfectly constructed story.
Congratulations, @kei2!
Honorable Mentions
The following stories followed closely on the heels of our selected winner, with excellent storytelling!
- @terjix: The Sun Sets Behind the Clouds
- @gabmr: The Unbeatable Christmas Spirit
- @zera: The Anonymous Party
- @seki1: Tears on a Drunken Night
Well done, writers!
January Contest!
As a reminder, you are automatically entered into the contest of the month by writing and posting a fictional story in The Ink Well anytime throughout the month. There is no prompt for the monthly contest. So keep writing for our weekly fiction prompts and keep giving your stories your best effort!
Contest Rules
Participate in one or more of our weekly fiction prompts (or write any fictional short story in The Ink Well) before the end of the calendar month.
Post a link to your story in a comment on the prompt that inspired your story, if applicable.
Use the #fiction tag as well as the #inkwellprompt tag (if applicable) on your post.
Please remember that we have rules around violence, rape, blood, and physical abuse. See The Ink Well rules, and our article describing The Ink Well Stance on Violence.
If you have questions, please stop into the "ask-theinkwell" channel on Discord.
At the end of the month, we will announce our winner of the month and our honorable mentions, and the winner will receive 20 Hive.
Hint: We are looking for a high-quality story. Don't rush. Remember the important skills we always talk about — great settings, good character building, strong dialog, and a good story arc that resolves well in the end.
And finally, we recommend using our tips in the article Help for the Grammatically Challenged to identify errors in your story before posting.
Good luck!
Find Us on Discord
Our Discord server is a great place to chat with other community members about the craft of writing.
Please pop into our Welcome channel, read our guidelines for conduct, and then feel free to interact with other community members or ask The Ink Well Team a question in the #ask-theinkwell channel.
Discord invitation link: https://discord.gg/Bng7mMsaQj
Delegate to The Ink Well / Follow Our Curation Trail
Want to support our community, our contests, and our rewards for great quality content? See the table below. We have made it super easy. Thank you, thank you, thank you! We have a goal to continue increasing the support we give to our wonderful, hardworking and dedicated authors!
You can follow our curation trail by going to our hive.vote curation trail page and clicking the follow button.
We welcome delegations! These support our community in many ways, including helping us to provide support to quality content creators through curation and contests.
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Great update. A clear reminder of our Writing Tips and summary of community guidelines. Congratulations, @kei2, @terjix, @gabmr, @zera, and @seki1. We had some great stories. It's an achievement to be noted especially.
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Great shoutout to kei2's work!! Congratulations 🎊
O.M.G. My story? Thank you so much Inkwell. What a great way to come back from holidays and start the new year. I'm so honored.
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Congratulations. Y'all rock.
Congratulations @kei2 ✨️, @terjix, @gabmr, @zerah and @seki1.
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