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Dear community, Welcome to Prompt #3 in our creative nonfiction initiative. Thank you to everyone who contributed a nonfiction story last week! In case you missed the announcement about The Ink Well opening up to nonfiction stories, you can see it here. We began the initiative as a trial. It's going well, and we are excited to continue! (And yes, we plan to update our rules soon to include non-fiction.) Here's a quick overview of how it works: Each week, we will provide a creative nonfiction prompt. You are also welcome to post other creative nonfiction pieces that are not based on the prompt. See the guidelines below. In opening up our community to a broader range of content, we will take the stance that not every post will be curated. To be curated, your content should follow our guidelines, be at least 350 words, be written in English (or another language as well as the English translation) and — as much as possible — free of errors. There are many guides and resources online for getting to know this wonderful genre. It is truly about storytelling. The simple difference between creative nonfiction and fictional work is that it is not made up. We like this definition from an article on creativenonfiction.org: Simply put: Creative nonfiction is true stories, well told. With creative nonfiction, you are using the literary and storytelling tools of a fiction writer to craft stories from real life experiences. Set the scene. Give the details. Profile the characters. Give us the dialog, as best you can remember it. Ideas and inspiration: Creative nonfiction stories can be snippets from your life autobiography — moments in time you want to capture in words, whether they were frightening, enlightening, bittersweet, or life-altering. They can be observations about life, about a time you connected at a profound level with a perfect stranger, or something you have learned along the way that made you a better person. Do you love podcasts? One of the greatest sources of creative nonfiction is The Moth Radio Hour. Listen to a few of the stories from The Moth, and we guarantee you will be inspired. Here are some additional resources for learning more about the creative nonfiction genre: Check out this list of creative nonfiction stories. For example, one of the stories is about a funeral for a lizard named Rango. We hope you are inspired! Here are some examples of what we are looking for: In other words, tell a story from real life. Here’s what we are NOT looking for: What will be muted: Thank you to all who participated in last week's prompt: Food and Family! As I stepped into the house, mom was already furious with me as I was the closest to home but only came around on the evening before the occasion. I set out at once to fix the lightings to aid in cooking in a bid to soothe her anger. The night went smoothly with my siblings eventually trickling one after the other later in the night. Despite being a Nigerian from the south, I haven’t used the triangular fishing tool before but tales of it still fill my head, one such is the fishing of crabs both hairy and non-hairy of which my father was an expert. He told me how they’d make the cone-like trap from strings of raffia palm and keep it just close to the muddy floor of the swamp. Congratulations, @diikaan and @buezor! We are all shaped in one way or another by music, whether it is the songs our mothers sing to us in childhood, the singing voice we discover in the shower some foggy morning, or a musician that reached out and touched your soul and made you wake up to the power of music. Tell your story. Give us insight into the way music moves you, gives you joy, or helps you to connect with an otherwise dormant part of yourself. What is your music story? Please use the tag #creativenonfiction on these posts. Prizes! Deadline You have a week, until the next prompt is posted, to post your creative nonfiction story in The Ink Well community. See you in The Ink Well!
What Is Creative Nonfiction?
-- Reedsy blog: What is Creative Nonfiction? The Unputdownable Truth
-- Writers.com: Understanding Creating Nonfiction: What It Is and How to Write ItGuidelines for Creative Nonfiction Articles in The Ink Well
Last Week's Creative Nonfiction Winners
Second Place: Wins 1000 Ecency Points
First Place: Wins 5 Hive
The Ink Well Creative Nonfiction Writing Prompt #3: The Music in You
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