Creative Nonfiction in The Ink Well: Prompt #6

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Dear community,

Welcome to Prompt #6 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.

In opening up our community to a broader range of content, we will take the stance that not every post will be curated. 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.

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What Is Creative Nonfiction?

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:

We hope you are inspired!

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Guidelines for Creative Nonfiction Articles in The Ink Well

  1. Write creative nonfiction stories about real life, memories, or experiences.
  2. As with our fiction guidelines, we ask that articles be at least 350 words in length. Optimal length is 750-1500 words.
  3. Please read and edit your content before posting. It makes a big difference in how we reward work published in The Ink Well. (And we have some great guidelines for improving your grammar and fixing errors before you post in this article.)
  4. Please post directly in The Ink Well community, and post your link in a comment on this post.
  5. Please use the tag #creativenonfiction on these posts.

Here are some examples of what we are looking for:

  • Explore an idea that interests you, such as how childhood experiences shape us as adults.
  • Write about the study of dreams and what they mean, along with your own experience.
  • Tell about an experience from your life that profoundly changed you.
  • Write about a teacher who inspired you.

In other words, tell a story from real life.

Here’s what we are NOT looking for:

  • A picture of a flower or other posts focused on photography
  • A few paragraphs about what you ate for lunch
  • Recipes and how-to articles
  • Essays about religion or politics
  • Poetry

What will be muted:

  • Spam posts or plagiarism
  • Graphic violence
  • Lectures or proselytizing about religion, politics or morality

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Last Week's Creative Nonfiction Winners

Thank you to all who participated in last week's prompt: Letters!

The stories this week were wonderful, and as always it was difficult to choose two from this goldmine of stories!

Second Place: Wins 1000 Ecency Points

Now then, I have no idea if those wounds have been healed yet, or else I am building a more solid amour for my heart that they can not make their roots pierce through deeper and deeper. I mean, they are good news in both ways right? I am in the time being strong enough to protect myself, so the insecurity will have to stay back I guess. Loneliness is something has tagged along with me for the years I have been existing, something would embrace me whenever I cried over a buried love, for me to know I had chosen it somehow in my past lives ever. Since at the end of the day, we are all alone, before stepping on the heaven gate, aren't we?

First Place: Wins 5 Hive

There is an Eliza, who was a laundress with suds on her arms, crying with joy at the pleasure of an unexpected visit from her children years after they had moved to follow the work created by the railways. There's another whose first husband died and left her with three babes under three, and remarried to have more, something my grandfather didn't know and that I discovered following breadcrumb trails of censuses and birth certificates. I found the house she lived in as a housekeeper in 1820, but not graves, as she was too poor, and it was only those with a bit of money that could afford the gravestones. There are two war memorials with two great great uncles who died in the Great War. Edwards, Alberts, Elizas and Florences, Worthys and Charles adorn the family tree. Little Ned is at the end of it, tiny and blinking in futuristic sunlight.

Congratulations, @riverflows and @sapphireissafy!

AND... An Added Third Place: 2 Hive

Addendum: Now you all know how we wrestle with choosing winners in our contests. It is the topic of much soul-searching each week. After deliberation, we simply could not pass over the wonderful story by @fantom22 without delivering a prize to showcase this lovely piece, Love Letters, in which he describes his arranged marriage, and an enforced geographical separation from his wife by his parents until he completed his degree.

About a month after the wedding, I received my wife's first letter through the postal department.

It is also important to mention here that in those days the services of the postal department were also not so quick, it used to take up to 25-30 days to reach letters from one place to another.

After receiving that letter I secretly opened that first letter sent by my wife very carefully, it was a very beautiful letter on a colour full paper, the fragrance was also coming from it, maybe some perfume was put on it after writing it, the things written in the letter my obsession increased even more, and I started missing my newly married wife a lot.

But if the postman was late for even 2-3 days, there would be a lot of restlessness and many hours of mine would be spent sitting outside the house waiting for his arrival...

Thank you for sharing your memories with us, @fantom22, and congratulations!

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The Ink Well Creative Nonfiction Writing Prompt #6: Traditions

It's a time of year when many families have certain traditions. Perhaps you have traditions around meals or outings or singing, or certain rituals like candle lighting.

Some of us carry forward the traditions of our childhoods when we start a family of our own, while others create new traditions.

Write your story. What is meaningful to you? Who are the characters that populate your life or your memories when you think of the most memorable or significant traditions.

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!

  • The top creative nonfiction story of the week will receive 5 Hive
  • The second place story will receive 1,000 Ecency points

Deadline

You have a week, until the next prompt is posted, to post your creative nonfiction story in The Ink Well community.

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Good day everyone! Here is my entry
@arduilcelebren/winning-college-with-the-evil

Thank you so much for the opportunity 😁

Edit:
Supported so far;
@kzxixs/unique-moments-creative-nonfiction-in
@jetta.amaya/life-and-death-of-carmen

and will keep supporting tonight!

Congratulations to last week's winners.

Here's my entry for this week's creative nonfiction prompt

https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@diikaan/when-the-umoidems-gather

congratulations , @riverflows, @sapphireissafy!
Creative nonfiction brings us intense, exciting, beautiful stories.

This is a great one @theinkwell. Thanks for providing the wonderful platform.

Shivers, I missed this!!! Omg!! Honestly chuffed to bits, especially as I read soooo many good stories! It's a challenge to write in this genre so your nod to my ability with this prizemeans everything to me! @itsostylish @jaynie @agmoore and the Inkwell team, really really received so gratefully!

You are very welcome, @riverflows! Your writing is so lovely.

(Oh, and auto-fill seems to have grabbed @jaynie instead of my name. Sadly, she left Have about a year and a half ago.)

Oh oops bloody autocorrect!!!!! I did mean you!!! 💚💚

Wow, This is great! Congratulations to the winner of last week's prompt @riverflows and @sapphireissafy. I wish everyone more success in all endeavors.

Thank you so much 💕🌼

Congratulations to the winners @riverflows and @sapphireissafy and we look forward to participating in this call for entries.

Congratulations to the winners, @riverflows, @sapphireissafy, and all who participated in the week's prompt.

Hope to read from you all this week.

Congratulations to @riverflows, @sapphireissafy and @fantom22! We simply couldn't stick with just two prizes this week. 😄

@jayna thank you very much.

Congratulations @fantom22

@popurri thank you sooooooooooooooo much.

A big congratulations to the winners 🎉🎉🎉

congratulations to the winners @riverflows @sapphireissafy and thanks to @theinkwell for giving me the third prize.

Before we started the creative nonfiction initiative, we wondered if it was a good idea. Look at the gems we received this week! We never would have read the winners and the other memorable pieces if we hadn't gone ahead with the initiative.

Congratulations to all who published a post to the nonfiction prompt, and especially to the winners, @sapphireissafy, @riverflows and @fantom22. Well done, indeed.

I'm so grateful that you did! It's beautiful to learn more about my favorite authors here 😁 such a wonderful weekly engagement to inspire connection!

Thankyou ever so much! I love reading the stuff under this tag. Real life can be so beautifully written.

@agmoore Thank you very much, and I am especially pleased that this community went beyond the rules and selected my memoir for the award. Heartfelt thanks to the whole community and all the admins for this.
my special thank you to you for taking out your valuable time for a humble writer like me.

Congratulations to the winners for this week! I LOVED River’s story, now I need to check the other one out 😊 !PIZZA

Thanks @grindan!

Congratulations, @riverflows and @sapphireissafy 🥰🤗💕

Thankkkkkyouuuuuuu

Thank you 💕

My submission below:
https://ecency.com/hive-170798/@abigail04/the-evergreen

I have commented on @innfauno12 and @cool08 .

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I should probably remember to link my entry 😂 Great job on the prompt this week so far everyone! It is wonderful to hear traditions from all over the world! I'm so grateful that creative nonfiction is flourishing here 😍

https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@grindan/thanksgiving-traditions