The Ink Well Weekly Fiction Prompt #4: The Way Home

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Hello and welcome to our new fiction writing prompt for this week. We will also share some highlights from last week!

Highlights of the Week

Thank you to everyone who posted a story for last week's prompt, “Beauty with a Twist." Every story did a fantastic job of describing the beauty of surroundings, people or nature in vivid detail. We enjoyed reading them all and sprinkling special rewards on the fiction posts as well as the wonderful comments!

Please be sure to visit these stories, read them and share your thoughts with the authors:

• Beauty, by @pokerm
• Beauty with a Twist, by @one-eye
• Beauty in a place to remember, by @mrnightmare.net
• She Sang to My Soul, by @esther-emmanuel
• Beauty with a Twist, by @dwixer
• Her Deepest Desire Fulfilled, by @kemmyb
• Vampire paramedic, by @ricardo993
• Quetta and Daniel, by @gracielaacevedo
• ArcAnvil's Holiday, by @justclickindiva
• That Reflection in Your Eyes, by @pipokur67
• Beauty with a Twist, by @deeanndmathews
• Free Rides, by @amirtheawesome1

This Week’s Prompt

The prompt for this week is "The way home."

How you interpret it is completely up to you and your imagination. To get you thinking, we'll share some ideas.

Everyone has a sense of "home." Many of us feel ensconced in our homes. Some of us have had to flee our homelands, or perhaps leave a difficult person or painful situation. But we all have a little bit of "homing pigeon" in us as well.

What might the complex mix of love and pain mean for your character? Perhaps your character went away and is now experiencing many roadblocks in returning. Or your character returns home and it has changed drastically, or bears no resemblance to the "home" of longing and imagination. Or your character is a child run-away who only makes it a few blocks from home and realizes that the world is a colder, lonelier place, the further he gets from his family... even if they punish him or make him mad sometimes.

We look forward to reading your stories!

Good luck! And of course, remember the important elements of good fiction:

• A good setting
• Character development
• Conflict
• Dialog
• A story arc and resolution

Weekly Prompt Rules:

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3. Post a link to your story in a comment on this post.
4. Visit the work of at least two other community members and comment on their work.
5. 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.

Note: Be sure to also read our community rules.

Here are the past prompts if you would like to write for them or refer back to them:

• #1: Heart and Soul
• #2: The moment when...
• #3: Beauty with a twist

We look forward to reading your stories!

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Comments

[mrnightmare.net]

What an interesting prompt this week inkwell. Home is simple but it can be interesting if we will some twists. Now, I'm thinking. Anyway, thanks for a wonderful prompt.

[agmoore]

Can't wait to read the story :)

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[amirtheawesome1]

My story: Rehome.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@amirtheawesome1/rehome-the-ink-well-weekly-fiction-prompt-4-the-way-home

[jayna]

Thank you for being the first one to join the prompt this week, @amirtheawesome1!

[amirtheawesome1]

My story: Rehome.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@amirtheawesome1/rehome-the-ink-well-weekly-fiction-prompt-4-the-way-home

[raj808]

This prompt inspired me to write a sci-fi short story. It has been a little while since I've written any fiction, but I thoroughly enjoyed letting my imagination take me away today 🙂

https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@raj808/the-hard-way-home-scifi-short-story

[jayna]

Glad you joined the prompt this week, @raj808!

[movement19]

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Join us again next week.

[pokerm]

My story for this prompt:
The Long Way Home

This prompt gave me many ideas. Eventually I settled on this.

[jayna]

Wonderful. I'm glad you were inspired!

[pokerm]

Thank you!

[gracielaacevedo]

Greetings, literature lovers!

Thanks to the call of @theinkwell I'm leaving my text for this week:

Grandma Kueka

Commented authors:
@amirtheawesome1
@pokerm

[jayna]

Thank you for joining us for this week's prompt, @gracielaacevedo!

[ricardo993]

Hello to everyone in the community!

Here is my post:

https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@ricardo993/nyota-or-the-ink-well-prompt-4

[jayna]

Thank you for joining this week's prompt, @ricardo993!

[mrnightmare.net]

Here's my entry,
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@mrnightmare.net/the-ink-well-weekly-fiction-prompt-4-the-way-home-or-the-road-to-my-dreams

[jayna]

Thanks for joining this week's prompt, @mrnightmare.net!

[kemmyb]

Hello. Here is my link -
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@kemmyb/the-adventure-of-willy-or-the-ink-well-weekly-fiction-prompt-4. Hope you enjoy reading it.

Comments - @pokerm, @defolumal, @justclickindiva

[jayna]

Glad you were inspired by the prompt, @kemmyb!

[defolumal]

Hello everyone! My entry for this week: Couple Hundred Meters Away

Thank you for the opportunity.

[jayna]

Thanks for joining us for this week's prompt, @defolumal!

[deeanndmathews]

The Prodigal Sons' Niece, for prompt 4...

My comments:

1. @ricardo993
2. @kemmyb
3. @pokerm
4. @amirtheawesome1

[theinkwell]

Thank you for joining this week's prompt, @deeanndmathews!

[deeanndmathews]

You're welcome!

[pipokur67]

Good evening, I share with you my participation in this week's prompt 4, "the way home".
https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@pipokur67/on-the-road-to-the-future-missing-home

[justclickindiva]

Here is my story for Week 4 Writing Fiction:

https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@justclickindiva/a-thin-line-or-the-ink-well-weekly-fiction-writing-week-4-prompt-the-way-home

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Comments to other Week 4 author stories:

1. @mrnightmarenet
2. @deeanndmathews
3. @pipokur67
4. @dwixer

[apeboy]

Late but sure, this is my post of the prompt

https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@apeboy/the-ink-well-weekly-fiction-prompt-4-regreso-a-casa-or-returning-home

[agmoore]

Thank you for joining in. I just read your story!

[seesladen]

A melancholic one from me for this prompt...

Better late than never eh?

https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@seesladen/the-way-home

Cheers!

[jayna]

Thank you for joining us this week for "the way home" prompt, @dwixer!