Creative Nonfiction in The Ink Well Prompt #102
SourceWelcome to The Ink Well's weekly creative nonfiction prompt!
In this post, we'll 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.
Last Week's entrants
Thank you to all who participated in last week's prompt : Path.
Last week's participants
Featured
Highlighting @jennyzee1, with the story:
Friendship and loyalty: A path
Looking at the picture of me and my friends, I thought back to the time when we were only teenagers without a care for the world. Back then when we would eat from the same plate, wear matching outfits and even tell lies to protect each other. If the world had crumbled back then, we wouldn't have cared since we had each other to look out for ourselves.
Curator's comment :
jennyzee1 writes a very nicely written and poignant CNF about her group of three friends as a teenager, and how one betrayed the other two. They loved to make music together, but one ended up taking the songs that were mostly written by another girl in the group and joining a band. Years later, when she was in terrible circumstances and needed surgery for her mother, she came back to beg for help from the one who had written the songs, and was by then a nurse. Though the betrayed friend was still angry, she finally relented and made it happen. The story is nicely structured and well told.
Featured
Highlighting @lightpen, with the story:
Our path crossed in the hospital
With these selfless assistances, I was able to navigate through the financial requirements of the funeral and also paid my school fees before the expiration of the deadline given by my university.
Curator's comment :
Lightpen does a remarkable job of making his heartbreak "felt" in this sad CNF about losing his father. Lightpen's dad had been given the runaround by health officials until it was too late to do anything other than amputate his leg. Lightpen's family did not have the money for the operation, but were, miraculously, saved the expense by a "Good Samaritan." Sadly, Lightpen's father died before he could receive treatment, but the money donated literally saved his family. A really sad story, well told!
This Week's Prompt 102:
Turn the tables
If you turn the tables on someone, you change the situation completely, so that instead of them causing problems for you, you are causing problems for them.
Ideas to fire your imagination :
- Perhaps your associate, who was less experienced but younger, was promoted over your head. However, the tables turned when a difficult order forced your boss to ask for your help and admit his/her mistake.
- Maybe you had to turn on the charm and up your debating skills to take on a team that was more prepared.
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.
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