The Ink Well Prompt #30: See the post for prompt and rules

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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, “School notes," which invited The Ink Well authors to write stories that bring a school experience to life for the reader, with the powerful sights and sounds of school, from the aromas of books and chalk to the sounds of sneakers on a gymnasium floor. Thank you to everyone who wrote a story for this prompt!

Here are the week's stories. Be sure to read and support these authors for their work! We have also featured several of these stories in The Ink Well Highlights Magazine from September 5.

• Dear Friend, by @diebitch
• Therapy Session, by @b0s
• My School Memories, by @sunnyag
• Venus and the Four Suns, by @miles101 and @sonofremi
• Beating the Best, by @iyimoga
• The French Note Book, by @mcluz
• The Water of Many Voices, by @deeanndmathews
• Identical But Different, by @gracielaacevedo
• Journey in a Fractured Mind, by @sonofremi and @miles101
• The Price for the Flower, by @kemmyb
• School Memories with My Dear Friend, by @onwugbenuvictor
• Failed Test, by @ricardo993

This Week’s Prompt

The prompt for this week is three words. Read on to discover how to use this prompt!

Three-word prompts are a great way to launch creativity. The idea is that you just start writing, and see what comes to your imagination as you think of each of the words. But you can also plot out a story, if you prefer. You just need to make sure you incorporate all three of these words:

• Scooter
• River
• Midnight

We have provided a three-word prompt before, in case you would like to look back. The three words that time were journey, bacon, window.

Get creative! We look forward to reading your stories!

Note: As always, please avoid gory, bloody, brutal, sexist or racist themes and language, NSFW (not safe for work) themes, 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:

• 50 Loglines
• 50 Story Ideas
• 50 Imagination Ticklers

Weekly Prompt Rules:

1. 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 of highlights.)
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4. COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Visit the work of at least two other community members and comment on their work.
5. 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.
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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

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Comments

[mrnightmare.net]

It seems the prompt will be fine for me. Oh, I forgot to place my entry for last week but still, it's fine because of your unending support.

[jayna]

It's never too late, @mrnightmare.net. We post a new prompt each week, but you can write for any prompt anytime. If you've posted it, I can add it to the list of stories for last week's prompt in the post above.

[onwugbenuvictor]

Good to know that I can write on previous prompt, because I have some lined up but I thought it was to late, I just joined from last week prompt.

So if I want to post on old topics, should I go under the topic too paste my link??

[onwugbenuvictor]

Hi @jayna 👆🏼?

[jayna]

Sorry, @onwugbenuvictor, I need to remember to read the comments under the prompt post! If you write a story for any past prompt or any of our 150 posted story ideas, you don't need to post your link anywhere. Just publish it in The Ink Well community. We will see it.

[onwugbenuvictor]

Oh ok

[b0s]

I don't know, but you could just state it at the end of the story

[onwugbenuvictor]

Ok thanks, I will try that.

[readthisplease]

Done engage with others. https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@readthisplease/the-ink-well-prompt-30-learning-a-new-skill

[sunnyag]

My entry for prompt #30. Diana had to plead hard but she managed to go to the river for her love for scooting. Thank you!!! I will comment on as many as possible.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@sunnyag/the-midnight-scooter-ride-at-tanda-river

[katleya]

My entry:
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@katleya/the-ink-well-prompt-29-the-deep-well-of-the-enigma-school

My comments:

@mcluz

@danladi

@dwixwe

[katleya]

I hope that this week I will solve internet problems to continue writing.

This week's topic is interesting.....

[onwugbenuvictor]

Supported : @readthisplease , @sunnyag and @katleya.

My entry for prompt #30:
Honor Amongst Friends

[yuki-nee]

This is my entry to prompt # 30 => https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@yuki-nee/the-night-drive

I supported these authors: @readthisplease, @katleya, @warpedpoetic

[b0s]

My entry

https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@b0s/midnight-stroll-a-short-story

[katleya]

Hello!!!!

My entry for this week, prompt # 30:

https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@katleya/the-ink-well-prompt-30-scooter-competition-between-cats-and-dogs

My comments:

@sunnyag

@gracielaacevedo

@deeanndmathews

[agmoore]

Hello Community,
I've put my pen to paper and come up with a brief story in response to this week's prompt. I hope the story is fun to read, because it sure was fun to write: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, on a Scooter

[prayzz]

https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@prayzz/the-pandemic-the-apocalypse-and-the-bike-thief

[iyimoga]

My entry for the week.

https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@iyimoga/the-ink-well-prompt-30

After going through the work of these wonderful people.

@b0s

@sunnyag

@prayzz

[juanvegetarian]

Finally, I was able to post a fiction story here. Thanks for the writing prompt! :) https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@juanvegetarian/midnight-escape-from-manila-to-kuala-lumpur

[kemmyb]

Hello @theinkwell! Here is my story for this prompt - -
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@kemmyb/miracle-on-the-seventh-anniversary

I hope you enjoy reading it! 😊

Comments - -
Iyimoga,
Agmoore,
b0s,
gracielaacevedo

[rokhani]

I remember in my previous post I make mistake. I post a poem because so long time inactive and I didn't know new rule. And now I post a story here. I make it also as my apologize for the community, especially @jayna and the moderators.
Here my entry
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@rokhani/ringing-in-the-midnight

[kaerpediem]

Hello Writers, here's my entry

https://peakd.com/fiction/@kaerpediem/your-forever-never

[theinkwell]

Hi @kaerpediem. Sorry that we missed your story. We look for new posts in The Ink Well community. Please be sure to post your stories in The Ink Well community, by first going to https://peakd.com/c/hive-170798/created and clicking the pen icon. Thanks also for dropping the link here, but for us to curate your story, it needs to be posted to our community. Thanks!

[kaerpediem]

Please don’t be sorry.
It’s my bad.
I used ecency to post after a long time and must have messed up and I think I know what I did wrong.
Will be more alert next time.
Thank you @TheInkWell 🥰

[esther-emmanuel]

Here is my entry for this week's contest.
https://peakd.com/@esther-emmanuel/the-magical-scooter

Supported @gracielaacevedo @agmoore @kemmyb @dwixter

[deeanndmathews]

My entry: The Strength Meets You On Both Sides

My comments:

1. juanvegetarian
2. yuki-nee
3. katleya
4. onwugbenuvictor
5. readthisplease
6. kaerpediem

[ricardo993]

This is a story dedicated to two friends of mine, who are always fighting with each other and I decided to capture an antithesis of the two, to see if it improves their relationship.

https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@ricardo993/river-scooter-midnight-or-the-ink-well-prompt