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Welcome to The Ink Well Writing Challenge!
Here's a selection of some of the stories from the past few weeks - Enjoy and don't forget to leave a comment for the writer!
All the posts were selected by The Ink Well for curation by the OCD Communities Incubation Programme. Well done everyone!
The Ink Well's favourite this week was:
In Widechard's Seas by @gabmr
Which one is your favourite?
The Night About Us by @morey-lezama
The Old Murray by @apeboy
The Mares of Diomedes by @ricardo993
A Power Struggle by @justclickindiva
That Day by @jmauring
We Were Wrong About by @deeanndmathews
Three Nights by @marcybetancourt
Sepelium by @morey-lezama
Margot and Gerardo by @mayifiestas
The Night Fall by @dwixer
Vague Love Outside the Window by @kawsar8035
The Giant of the Moor by @danielapevs
The Princess in the Window by @marcybetancourt
This Week's Challenge
See the Season Launch post for a full list of prompts so you can plan your writing. There will also be a writing prize with hundreds (hundreds!) of Hive in prizes in December. The theme will be renewal and you will be able to submit entries for three weeks from Friday 18 December 2020 until Friday 8 January 2021.
This Week's Prompt
Prompt: "being right is a lonely place"
Use this prompt as a jumping off point in your story.
You could start by writing down the prompt and then free-writing for 30 minutes - just writing down whatever comes into your mind. Take a break (twenty minutes, two hours, a day) and then come back and start editing and developing your story. When you have a polished story, submit your post!
This is just one idea about how to use the prompt - it might become the opening or finishing sentence, or it might not appear in your final story at all.
Prompts and ideas for this Season's Writing Challenge are from Bryan Collins at Become a Writer Today.
Rules of Entry
- using the prompt, write a story that has a minimum of 350 words.
- post it in The Ink Well Community.
- use the title format: "theinkwell writing challenge | title of your story".
- include the tags: #theinkwell #challenge #story.
- post a link in the comments of this post - this is your entry to the writing challenge, don't forget to do it!
- NEW NEW NEW - vote on this post - NEW NEW NEW
Only include the tag #posh if you are sharing your story on Twitter. If you include the tag #feedback, you are letting curators and other members of the community know you welcome feedback on your story. We aim to be gentle and constructive with feedback, to help writers develop their craft.
Remember, original work only - no plagiarism or re-posts!
Curation Policies
The Ink Well aims to become an alternative source of long-term income for writers. We are looking for high quality well-crafted stories that have a clear story arc, well-developed characters and a satisfying ending for the reader. We have set out the Season Two programme in advance so you have time to plan your stories over the eight weeks. Don't forget to edit your story - remember we are looking for high quality and presentation!
When they review your stories, curators are looking for the following:
| Category | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Setting | Time and place the story is set and whether this affects the story. Has the writer created a world that is believable? |
| Story arc | What is the story arc? Does the story incorporate conflict, climax and resolution? Is the ending satisfying to the reader? |
| Characters | How are characters drawn in the story? What is their role in the story? Do they change or remain the same? Are they fresh and original or stereotypical? Are they believable? |
| Style | The writer's use of language, imagery and tone. Is the writer engaging? Are they showing not telling? |
| Presentation | Does the editing and presentation enhance the writing? Has the writer developed their story and corrected mistakes? |
Writing Tips
The Ink Well has lots of resources to help you develop your skills as a writer - or if you just get stuck. You can find the full list of tips with links in the latest post tips post pinned in the community. Here's a selection to get you started:
Posts that meet the criteria to a good standard (including editing!) will be submitted for OCD curation. The Ink Well will also be looking for promising posts to submit for @curie curation.
Finally
If you have any questions, put them in a comment below.
We look forward to reading your stories!
Selected Subscribers
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- Give a vote for this post.
- Follow @theinkwell account.
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Hello @theinkwell Thank you very much for selecting my Week 2 story among the ones for curation by OCD. I appreciate the support and exposure this brings to my post.
I have taken the time to read my fellow authors' stories and my favorites are below:
FAVORITE:
Margot and Gerardo by @mayifiestas (when you give your all in a relationship, then discover infidelity; expect the unexpected. It's an ending I wasn't prepared for. Hubby got his just desserts...or shall I say, main course)
AWESOME STORIES:
The Old Murray by @apeboy
Three Nights by @marcybetancourt
Sepelium by @morey-lezama
The Princess in the Window by @marcybetancourt
We Were Wrong About by @deeanndmathews
Apologies, I can't decide. They'e just all good in various ways. Choosing is extremely difficult.
Thank you for your choices. It's a real challenges, isn't it? 😍
!ENGAGE 25
Dear @justclickindiva.
Thank you for including me in your favorite readings.
I already read your comments. Very correct!
I also liked the story of @mayifiestas. The ending was surprising.
Happy day!
ENGAGEtokens.Hello @theinkwell, thank you for this initiative, I am excited to participate. This is my post for this week:
https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@pipokur67/theinkwell-writing-challenge-season-2-week-4-or-under-the-waters-of-progress
Oh wow week 4! We are half way through :)
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@iamraincrystal/the-inkwell-writing-challenge-or-cold-as-steel
Hello, dear, here I leave the link of my post this week ... I hope you like it.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@rypo01/theinkwell-writing-challenge-or-yoselin
Here is my entry post
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@kawsar8035/the-ink-well-writing-challenge-or-trying-to-get-back-to-the-past-left-behind
This way my participation of this week: https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@morey-lezama/the-inkwell-writing-challenge-or-a-story-for-sophie
Hello, The Ink Well community!
It is a big pleasure for me you selected my story as your favourite one among such incredible entries. I feel really honored.
As I enjoyed writing mine, I also delighted myself reading some of the past week's stories. My attention was especially caught by @iamraincrystal's Crimson Shutters. I reckon her narrative is quite captivating and profuse. She develops a big ambient taking a single scene for it. Not always an easy task.
Hope many other wonderful stories see light over the upcoming weeks.
thank you :) !BEER cheers! congrats!
Thank you for joining in!
!ENGAGE 25
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BEER.ENGAGEtokens.Good night, it has been a pretty hectic week because of work (I almost thought I would not be able to participate this week). Thank you very much for choosing my story last week, I have spent all these dawns reading all the selected ones and now all the ones that are participating now 😄
I leave you my dystopian story for this week, much success to all!!! 📖✨
The last tree on earth
Well guys, there is my participation of the week
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@apeboy/the-ink-well-writing-challenge-or-the-saxon
Here is a link season two, week four story, I hope you enjoy: https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@gilliatt/the-ink-well-writing-challenge-season-2-week-4-the-treasure-el-tesoro-by-gilliatt
Hello @theinkwell here is my story for Season 2 | Week 4:
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@justclickindiva/the-ink-well-season-2-week-4-or-when-all-odds-are-against-you
Hello. My entry.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@adncabrera/theinkwell-writing-challenge-or-the-story-whit-the-dog
Good luck and lots of reading!
Margot and Gerardo, by @Mayifiestas, fascinating story that catches you and surprises you with the ending, very well achieved, successes, it is my favorite !!!
So great to see all these entries into the competition, and how far you've taken it @shanibeer and @jayna.
I'm intrigued by the prompt, and as I pulled myself up by my bootstraps to return to hive and write an entry for the finish the story, I really should have a pop at a short story for The Ink Well too 😉
Looking forward to letting this creative prompt marinate in the theater of ideas for a few days and then letting loose with my keyboard 😂
Hmnnn... I've already got an idea for a character based off of that prompt.
Look forward to it!
https://hive.blog/hive-170798/@mayifiestas/the-ink-well-writing-challenge-season-2-week-4-matilde-by-mayifiestas
I am very grateful for the consideration @theinkwell has given to my stories.
The story In Widechard's Seas written by @gabmr is excellent. The way we are involved in the world of storytelling is magnificent, from the beginning it encourages conscious and alert attention.
Also, in my opinion, A Power Struggle written by @justclickindiva, The Princess in the Window by @marcybetancourt, We Were Wrong About by @deeanndmathews and The Heart Of The Thrush by @adncabrera.
Thank you for your kind words. I will now start reading (and give my text a grammatical look).
Thank you for your appreciation dear @morey-lezama.
I'm still "digesting" some stories. Several are very good!
I loved reading you! Your descriptions are great.
Greetings and happy day!
I appreciate your kind words for my Week 2 story.
Te lo mereces, amigo, @gabmr felicidades <3
Holaa. Muchas gracias, amiga<33
Here is a link to my first story on The Ink Well. I hope you enjoy.
https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@almightymelon/theinkwell-writing-challenge-solitude
@mhizerbee
You should join this.
Nice initiative @inkwell. I'll definitely participate in this edition
Hello everyone. It's an honor for me to be in this selection of stories . Thankful to this team. And my favorite story is a Power Struggle by @justclickindiva, I was personally drawn to it by its fantastic and mysterious narrative. From the title it caught my attention.
Hello @ricardo993 Wow...Thank you for your kind words and that you liked my story. I appreciate your support. If you're interested, I continued it in Week 3 I just posted yesterday, being a bit late, but just making it on time.
Take care.
Of course, I'd be happy to stop by and read it.
Hello, everybody, I need to know if I may write my short story in Spanish
Hello @sayury, you can include a Spanish version but entries to The Ink Well must be in English. Thank you 😍
Your story is very good! I loved it!
Best regards @dwixer!