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Dear community, Welcome to Prompt #10 in our creative nonfiction initiative. Thank you to everyone who contributed a nonfiction story last week! In case you missed the announcement about The Ink Well opening up to nonfiction stories, you can see it here. Here's a quick overview of how it works: Each week, we will 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, be written in English (or another language as well as the English translation) and — as much as possible — free of errors. 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: Gift! Our honorable mentions for the growing up prompt are: Our third place winner is @lightpen, with his story, The Spirit of Giving. It was at that early time of harvesting season. We went to buy ingredients to cook Egusi (melon soup) with Ogufe (chevon) to eat the first pounded yam of the year. My father had shared the yam gift to not less than 15 people a day before. Each person got five tubers. When we got to the market, I realized that five tubers of yam of the same sizes as ours was going for 2000 Naira. This was a reasonable amount of money then. When I got home, I told my father about the value of what he was giving out as a gift and a part of me propelled me to tell him to put a stoppage to it. Our second place winner is @deirdyweirdy, with her story, Replaced. The shed felt damp as she entered, the darkness inside broken only by the dim rays that fought their way through the scratched old panes of the small window, just managing to illuminate the eclectic collection of odds and ends her mother insisted upon keeping. "Keep a thing; its use will come’ she would say, but looking around her, Trudy couldn’t see much truth in this. What use was there for a two-legged chair, a bucket with a hole in it, or a chest of drawers with no drawers? Our first place winner is @samsmith1971, with her story, The Art of Living with Joy. To this day, when I am out in the garden on a beautiful summer's day, I find great joy in performing the moves of some of my favourite katas. It is so incredibly mindful and meditative. It is about breath, space, movement, speed, precision, grace, and balance. And it is about the pure joy that I derive from engaging in the art form. It is an intricate dance of epic proportions. Out of nowhere, I will perform a sequence of moves in my kitchen - my kids and hubby are used to this. Congratulations, @samsmith1971, @deirdyweirdy, and @lightpen! How many of us have peace in our hearts? With the complexity of life, the demands on our time, and the many emotions we experience, peace is hard to obtain, and hard to hold onto. Here are a few ideas for what to do with this prompt. We look forward to reading your stories. Have fun! Please use the tags #creativenonfiction and #inkwellprompt on these posts. And please remember to add your post link to a comment on this post! Prizes! Deadline You have a week, until the next prompt is posted, to post your creative nonfiction story in The Ink Well community. 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 #10: Peace
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