RE: The Ink Well Fiction Prompt #122 - Plus Weekly Challenge and Prize Announcement

Good questions, @samsmith1971! We are trying to help our community members learn "the ropes" of fiction writing so that their writing abilities serve them wherever they publish. The skills any writer develops here should support them in pursuing professional publishing. That's why we have our catalog of fiction writing tips.

Not only that, but we want to be able to share the best stories with professional writing groups on social media to show the quality of writing on Hive and attract more writers. So it won't serve us to have a special Hive-specific way of doing things. It's far more important for us to help the community to build "real world" skills and to demonstrate that there is some professional-level writing happening here. Won't it be cool when writers who have never heard of Hive see that it's a great place to learn and grow, publish quality writing, and earn something along the way? I definitely think so!