Creative Nonfiction Prompt #92

Creative Nonfiction in The Ink Well Prompt #92

Welcome to The Ink Well's weekly creative nonfiction prompt!

In this post, we'll announce the winners from last month's contest and provide the prompt for the coming week.

Before You Write Your Creative Nonfiction Post...

We ask that you read our Creative Nonfiction Tips post to learn about the creative nonfiction genre and review our guidelines.

Important notes:

Creative nonfiction stories are based on your real-life experiences.
We are looking for real short stories! Not advice columns, reports on crime or corruption in your city, observations on nature, recipes, religion, politics, or any other nonfiction content. Just real-life short stories.
Ideal story length is between 750 and 1500 words, but your story must be at least 350 words, at a minimum to be curated.
Please focus on quality content. Read and edit for errors! Use a grammar checker before you post your story.
We expect everyone who posts in The Ink Well to read and comment on at least two other stories for each one published.
Do not post stories featuring physical abuse, graphic violence, erotica or NSFW content.

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Last Week's entrants

Thank you to all who participated in last week's prompt : Run the gauntlet

Last week's participants

@abigail04	@bipolar95	@farahikram
@iskawrites	@jezmaine	@kingsleyy
@lightpen	@marriot5464	@mrenglish
@nancybriti1	@offia66	@popurri
@rafzat	@ridgette	@trexane
@ubdan313	@walindo

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Highlighting @marriot5464, with the story:

The Wedding Journey

The journey was like every other Nigerian student's trip. Filled with singing songs, shouting at the top of our voices, cracking jokes, pointing and taking pictures of the scenic views and lush green countryside. and sharing stories. Laughter and chatter filling the air.

Curator's comment :

Marriot5464 does the most excellent job of this CNF. WoW! He builds tension through dialogue to give us a sense of the dangers when traveling in Nigeria. However, he goes much further to demonstrate that resistance pays dividends. A delightful, well structured read.

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Highlighting @popurri, with the story:

In the midst of the protest

There was a great energy and joy to be there as protagonists of an important moment, wheree staying at home or just watching the march go by was not an option for those of us who participated.

Curator's comment :

We sometimes watch demonstrations on TV and wonder at their motivation, their courage, their experience. @popurri takes us inside one of those demonstrations. She tells of a day when she, and two of her adult children, took to the streets to join a march in protest against government policy. The author is quite specific in describing the chaos, the fear, the physical experience of being pursued by the police, and of being gassed by them. The is a sobering and affecting account.

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Highlighting @ridgette, with the story:

The Lost Kite

He stared at me with a tearful eye and nodded. I stopped pinching him when I realized he was really telling the truth. He looked down as if he were too ashamed to admit what he had done, and when he looked up, I saw that he was on the verge of crying, but he stopped it by biting his inner cheek.

Curator's comment :

This story is told with precision. It is told with descriptive language that opens the scene to us but does not intrude with self-conscious flare. This author has a natural, casual tone that is entirely persuasive. The story was a delight to read.

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Highlighting @nancybriti1, with the story:

A tree is a house

In that instant a thousand punishments went through my mind and none of them were good. So without saying a word and without waiting for my grandmother's reaction, I fled to the front of the house. On the porch there was a big guava tree so I decided to climb the highest branch so my grandmother could not catch me.

Curator's comment :

Some of the best CNFs evoke memories of childhood. That is the case here, with nancybriti1's most recent story. She recalls a time of innocence, a moment when she imagined she could live in a tree forever. She had broken a bowl and wanted to escape punishment. Reality intruded quickly. A bumblebee stung her. This was a sharp message: in the tree life would be hard, much harder than facing the punishment she might receive for breaking the bowl. Her grandmother, who was her caretaker that day, welcomed her down from the tree with tenderness. The story strikes a nostalgic note that no doubt will evoke in readers memories of their own childhood innocence.

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This Week's Prompt 92:

Blow hot and cold

Cambridge dictionary :

To sometimes like or be interested in something or someone and sometimes not, so people are confused about how you really feel.

There's a lot that you can do with this prompt, and it should bring situations to mind that you can relate in an interesting and exciting way to us. So jump in and start writing!

Tell us about it! And remember to integrate storytelling elements like characters, scene setting, dialogue and action to bring your story to life!

Have fun and good luck! We look forward to reading your stories.

Rules

You have 6 days to write your story from the date of this prompt post. Be sure to check the deadline countdown.
Write a real-life story with the creative elements of fiction, like characters, dialogue, scene setting and a story conflict.
Post your story in The Ink Well Community.
Please use the tags #creativenonfiction and #inkwellprompt on these posts. Other possible tags: #writing #inkwellprompt #nonfiction
Stories must be written in English. If you've translated the post, it's best to add the original version below the translation. Do not write mixed language paragraphs.
Read and comment on at least two stories in the community. Add a link to your story as a comment on this post.

And be sure to remember to join The Ink Well community!

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Prize

A prize of 20 Hive will be awarded to one submission every four weeks.

Procedure

Two or three stories will be featured every week. One of the featured stories will win the grand prize every four weeks.

The winner will be featured in a special announcement post.

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