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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, “Longing." You guys created some amazing stories for this prompt!
Here are the week's stories. Be sure to read and support these authors for their work!
- Self Reflection, by @b0s
- First Time Apart, by @ozohu
- Love Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place, by @readthisplease
- Dreams and Hope, by @emeka002
- Mark Is No More Willing to Go for Bikign, by @sunnyag
- The Road Less Traveled, by @dwixer
- Love in Shadow, by @iyimoga
- Like We Used To, by @diebitch
- A Christmas Vision, by @wrestlingdesires
- No Pain No Gain, by @cool08
- Sleeping with a Princess 'Love and Despair', by @khoola
- Broken Youth Dreams, by @katleya
- Cold Choice, by @milezofplay
- A Hive Love Story, by @khaleesii
- Mistakes and Failures, by @ricardo993
- Longing Discovered, by @gracielaacevedo
- Meet the Counselor, by @mcluz
- Choosing Between What You Love and Who You Love, by @onwugbenuvictor
- Love and Music, by @amiableamara
- Delford Drake III finds His Coach, by @deeanndmathews
- Where Is Love, by @doziekash
- The Curse of Death, by @yuki-nee
- "Mother, do you love me?", by @beautifulwreck
Well done, everyone!
This Week’s Prompt
Families all over the world enjoy a good meal together, especially for a special occasion. In the U.S. we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday each year in the third week of November. It is a long-standing tradition based on the early settlers coming to the country. Let's write stories about holidays and traditional meals that bring people together.
The prompt is: feast. But... how can you make a good story out of a wonderful meal — because, as we all know, stories must have problems and challenges to be interesting!
Here are a few ideas for conflicts in a feast story:
- The host of the meal is a terrible cook and the meal consistes of burned or badly prepared food.
- The family gets together for holidays every year, but each time there are disagreements or personality clashes.
- Someone in the family has been holding onto a terrible secret for over 30 years and it is somehow revealed at the family feast.
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.)
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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
- #30 Three Words: Scooter, River, Midnight
- #31 Flash Fiction Contest
- #32 A Fork in the Road
- #33 Shadows
- #34 Three Words: Island, Witch, Cake
- #35 Full Moon
- #36 Graveyard
- #37 Jack-o-Lantern
- #38 Family Ties
- #39 Longing
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Here is my entry for prompt #40:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
@theinkwell Thanks for another wonderful prompt. I have started posting my comments and I will post as many as possible throughout the week. Thank you, here is my post for prompt #40
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@sunnyag/thanksgiving-feast
I read it,@sunnyag. Good writing!
(That was me, agmoore. Forget to change the key when I commented. Still mean it though😇)
This one is going to be challenging to come up with something unexpected for - but I do like a challenge ❤️
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Oh no! I disagree :) So many weird ideas come to my mind when I think of the word 'feast'. You are very creative, maybe not as weird as I am, but certainly creative.
I'm looking forward to reading your unusual story :))
Ha ha ha. I believe in both of you! And "weird" is a highly desirable feature for creatives.
😅
Life is boring without a little weird 🤣!
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I look forward to yours too - and I hope I don't disappoint ❤️
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This prompt word is an interesting one and I'm sure I will dance around it to the fullest
Wonderful!
Awesome!
I'm up for it!
Hooray!
That's the spirit!
I am beginning to imagine how this will look. Having a feast with family, friends, or colleagues can send in some intrigues. Nice prompt to write on.
Yes!
Looking forward to seeing the stories come in!
Hmmm, thankfully most of our family dinners are conflict free, but I'm sure I can create some fictional drama!
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This my entry link to @theinkwell prompt #40~ Feast
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@mrenglish/homecoming
Commented on @sunnyag (the only submitted work for now)
You can comment on all posts available in the community. They all count whether related to this week's prompt or not :)
Wow. Never knew. Would do that ASAP.
Yes, absolutely!
Hi, I'm new here on Hive. I haven't written a story on any of the prompt, so this is challenge for me..
Hi, @ruthy01,
Welcome! No worries... you will do fine and if ever you get stuck you go to Ink well's "catalog of fiction writing tips", you could also check @newbies-guide.
P.S.
Have you done your Intro-Post? if not you could do that first and ( if OCD likes it) get some HIVE to power up and not get stuck like some idiot (me)... I also suggest put it to 100% HIVE power at first so you could do more (write more) stuff.
What a welcoming and informative message. Thank you, @khoola!
Here is my story.
Beware, though. I put the mess in my head on the table instead of food.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@amirtheawesome1/the-ink-well-prompt-40-a-never-ending-feast-at-the-writers-block
Here's my entry for this weeks prompt Sleeping with a Princess 'noodles'.
Hope you guy's like it...
P.S.
Sorry haven't read any entries yet, severe headache... I'll just sleep it off and I'll check after work.
Take Care Everyone!
Comment
@sunnyag
@mrenglish
My write up is coming up later.
Here's my entry - I hope it's not too weird 😂
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@wrestlingdesires/starday
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My entry...below...
https://peakd.com/@cool08/a-celebrated-hunter
Commented on :
@blueeyes8960
@dwixer
Hello, beautiful community! First of all, a message of gratitude for the heart-warming welcome I've received. Tomorrow marks one week in my HIVE journey, and it has been great. Also, here's my entry for this week's prompt. I hope you like it!
You're on your way, @beautifulwreck! We're so glad you found our community.
Fellow writers, I come to this weekly party with my story:
Magic table on a Caribbean beach
Have you ever been to a party where the important dignitaries turned out to be the entertainers because of the foid served?
My Entry.
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@iyimoga/the-ink-well-round-40
Hello!
My comments to:
@gracielaacevedo
@iyimoga
My entry prompt # 40:
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@katleya/the-ink-well-prompt-40-a-strange-and-different-thanksgiving-day
Hello fellows! How's it going? Here's my entry: https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@gabmr/this-office-is-not-the-exception
I commented on:
Magic Table on a Caribbean beach by @gracielaacevedo
Feast mode! by @beautifulwreck
Some hilarious stories for this prompt, here's mine
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@diebitch/feast-of-fury
Hello everyone, please check out my entry to this week's prompt, Thank you.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@khaleesii/inkwell-prompt-40-the-cobweb-in-our-closet
Greetings All... Here's my entry
BLOOD IN THE CLOUDS
It was fun writing on this one and the entries are mind blowing. Comments on about 3 entries, I just had to read a lot of the entries
My story this week, although I haven't had much inspiration, I think the sentiment is nice.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@ricardo993/progress-over-time
My entry: The World Is a Banquet House
My comments:
I'm finally done writing. Here's my story for the week: https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@yuki-nee/a-heros-feast
Heyeah! Here's my entry, hope you like animal protagonists.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@vincric/a-meal-with-friends
Hello there the inkwell, here's my entry, a wonderful prompt that even though I'm a little bit busy I want to participate,
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@mrnightmare.net/the-ink-well-prompt-40-food-for-home
Here is my entry https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@ozohu/habits-die-hard
Commented on @mrnightmare.net and @vincric
Hello everyone, how's it going for y'all?
My entry for the prompt is Mr. Terrorist, I hope you enjoy it😁
My comments include but are not limited to...
@deeanndmathews
@mrnightmare.net
Thank you for this opportunity.
It is going to be a very foodie week!