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Hello and welcome to the The Ink Well weekly fiction prompt. 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.
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Before we get to the prompt, we have a few important words for anyone new, and those unfamiliar with how we work here in The Ink Well.
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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 “Three words: island, witch, cake," which invited The Ink Well authors to write stories that included these three words. We received some truly amazing stories, including several that portrayed kind and benevolent witches.
Here are the week's stories. Be sure to read and support these authors for their work!
- Room No. 13, by @sunnyag
- Isla Nocturne, by @generikat
- Valley of Dothan, by @mrenglish
- Seed of Faith, by @cool08
- Do Witches Still Exist, by @coolkris
- The Lonely Witch, by @b0s
- Scars of Kindness, by @readthisplease
- Witch, Island, and Cake, by @iyimoga
- Island, Witch, Cake, by @milezofplay
- The Fanciful Wedding in Umueze, by @chidubem26
- A Ragya Sheda, by @kei2
- Upside Down, by @sonofremi
- The Return of the Atlantic Royal, by @kemmyb
- The Selection of Celtic Witches, by @katleya
- Tranquility Island, by @jadams2k18
- The Witch in Rama, by @dwixer
- Document Tau Ceti e, by @ricardo993
- A Witch's Tongue, by @mondraye
- Konan, by @ji33y
- The Imprisoned Witch, by @mcluz
- A Little Favour, by @lover-boy
- Nana and the Night Palace, by @yuki-nee
- A Trip to Home Town, by @faithann
- Island, Witch and Cake, by danladi
- Madame Dubois Wins at Family Feud in Real Life, by @deeanndmathews
- Witch Reborn, by @mrnightmare.net
- State of Emergency, by @daveyjones7
- A Piece of Cake, by @diebitch
- Game Friend, by @vincric
- Witches Among Blue Butterflies, by @gracielaacevedo.
- The Witch Hunt of Burnt Cake Island, by @wrestlingdesires
This Week’s Prompt
Continuing with our spooky, Halloween-inspired prompts for October, this week's prompt is: full moon.
Of course, a full moon does not always have to be ominous or frightening. You can choose to incorporate the full moon into your story as you wish.
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:
Weekly Prompt Rules:
- 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 in the next prompt post.)
- Story link: Post your story in The Ink Well community, and post a link to your story in a comment on this post.
- Hashtags: Please use these hashtags: #fiction #writing #inkwellprompt #theinkwell.
- COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Visit the work of at least two other community members and comment on their work.
- 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.
- Images: Please only use images from license free and creative commons sites, like Pixabay, Unsplash and Pexels. Images you find on the Internet are copyright protected and cannot be used. Be sure to provide the source link.
- Length (NEW!): We request that story word counts are 1,000 to 1,500 words maximum length. This is just a guideline. Longer stories tend to get fewer readers. Additionally, The Ink Well admins appreciate keeping to that maximum story length for our time management!
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:
- #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
- #30 Three Words: Scooter, River, Midnight
- #31 Flash Fiction Contest
- #32 A Fork in the Road
- #33 Shadows
- #34 Three Words: Island, Witch, Cake
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i will write about it
Great. Have fun!
i will
This is beautiful, I just read through one of the stories and I was captivated..
Maybe I'll pop in sometime and write something this week.
Cheers!
That's a great way to get acquainted with our community, @chincoculbert. Reading the work of other writers is very inspiring too. And it's something we expect of all writers in our community. Everyone should be reading and commenting on the work of others. :-)
Yeah surely. . thanks for the reply..
Thanks for the prompt always. I'm sure its going to be an awesome week with lots of interesting stories to read here.
There's a lot of energy building in this community right now. It's so fun to see!
Hello, here is my participation for The Ink Well Prompt #33: Shadows
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@katleya/inkwell-33-shadows-the-shadow-of-sin
My comments:
@gracielaacevedo
@daveyjones7
For some reason, one of the most thrilling things for me right now is waiting for prompts in this community...
That's wonderful to hear, @mosin-nagant! So glad you are enjoying the prompts and are feeling inspired by them.
He is my submission for the prompt, full moon.
https://peakd.com/@mrenglish/coronation
Commented on:
@katleya
@mrnightmare.net
My submission
https://peakd.com/@cool08/driven-by-the-full-moon
Commented on:
@mrenglish
@katleya
hi guys, here's the link to my entry for the inkwell prompt #35, hope you enjoy https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@ji33y/lifetime
I love the new prompt 💓Did you forget my entry, or was there something wrong???
Sorry, @wrestlingdesires. It is added now. You had not included your story link in the comments of the prompt post, which is why it was missed in the collection. (We will try to remember to search the hashtags, as anyone can forget sometimes.)
Sorry, I thought I had. Thanks ❤️
Now I'm off to find the new word 🙌
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My entry
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@iyimoga/full-moon-royalty
Comment
@mrenglish
@cool08
Hi All, My post for prompt #35 I am reading and posting my comment on other posts too. Thank you!
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@sunnyag/the-last-pirate
https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@kingkenny44/tales-by-moonlight
Here is my entry into the contest. I sure you it is a good read.
Here is my entry
https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@jadams2k18/room-for-rent-se-alquila
Thanks
This is my entry for the week
https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@estherscott/the-full-moon-effect
Thank you, i hope you enjoy it
Hello @theinkwell! Here's my story for this prompt - -
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@kemmyb/the-dushante-dancers-or-the
I hope you enjoy reading it.
Comments - - -
-Dwixer
-kingkenny44
Hello,
Here is the link to my entry
https://peakd.com/@esther-emmanuel/lost-mate-or-inkwell-prompt-35
Comments
@Kemmyb and @gracielaacevedo
This week's writing was exciting to do.
My comments to:
@kemmyb
@esther-emmanuel
Here is my entry:
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@katleya/the-ink-well-prompt-35-full-moon-impressionist-hound
I leave here my story of the week, I hope you like it.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@ricardo993/gaumatas-desire-or-the-ink-well-prompt
Thanks for another interesting prompt! This my entry for this week's prompt: https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@yuki-nee/a-scar-under-the-full
Hi, @theinkwell
my friend @surrealfia is muted in the ink well community for many months and she doesn't know why.
As I've seen her writing more than a year on hive, I believe she is quite a capable fiction writer and always writes high-quality stuff. May I know why is she muted?
I always see this as an amazing opportunity. Thank you.
This is my entry;
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@kei2/the-aurora-clan#@restcity/r14sut
@mrenglish
@yuki-nee
My entry: Why Should the Devil Have the Moon?
My comments:
1.kei2
2.chidubem26
3.yuki-nee
4.stormlight24
Hello everyone, here is my entry for inkwell week #35 prompt.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@daveyjones7/the-life-changing-decision
I have read and made comments on the following entries by:
Thanks for starting off the week with the first story for the prompt, @milezofplay.