Introducing The Ink Well – A Curie Curated Creative Writing Community
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Magnificent initiative, @raj808, to create in union with @stormlight24 and with the support of @curie, this promising community of @theinkwell.
I wish you a fruitful work and long life full of fiction and poetry.
I greet you with much affection.
We are glad you like it! Welcome
Thanks for the welcome, @stormlight24.
Greetings.
Thanks @oacevedo
We're looking forward to building a place where we can all inspire each other to create great stories and poems to enrich steem :)
I totally agree with you, @raj808.
I hope that great stories full of poetry emerge from the inkwell.
Greetings.
Hi @raj808,
This is exciting. Finally, a dedicated home for writers. Often (always) I hesitate to post a story unless it is connected to a contest. But many of the contests are tailored to specific guidelines. It would be nice to just write, to get an idea and go with it, and to know there will be a home, a place for that piece. It feels less cold than posting outside of a community.
Thanks for taking the initiative. Wishing you (all of us) success.
I've never posted on @steempeak. Have to check that out and expand my blogging horizons.
Good luck!!
Ditto that - Thank you for creating this community @raj808 and @stormlight24!
The Well does have archetypal connotations - a continuing source, a cradle, font, fountain, fountainhead, origin, root, seedbed, spring, wellspring - and a bottomless well of ink for the writer promises a Muse that keeps supplying inspiration and ideas. I love the image you conjured - hot air balloon rising, verdant landscape.
Can you imagine joining that writers group --The Inklings--with C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien? Well, we've got Raj and the Ink Well!
Now I've got that group the Ink Spots playing in my mind. Pull up a chair, grab a mug, and let's percolate some stories for the Ink Well!
This 1000X Carol.
It is my hope that The Ink Well can becomes a place for sharing, and mutual support for the creative writers on steem leading by example to draw those who've left back.
I truly believe that the fictioneers (I love that made up word 😉) and poets bring so much unique and interesting creativity to the steem blockchain.
Your writing is great Carol and we're proud to have you over at the ink well.... But it does mean you'll have to write some fiction again soon to post here 😉
P.s. I know you're a technophobe so if you need any help learning how to post to communities please reach out to me in discord and I'll show you step by step. Once you've learned the process it isn't that difficult to be honest.
Thank you Raj - I have tried steempeak and countless apps, and all of them scare me off when they require permissions to do this, that, and the other. I need to get with the program. Thanks for offering to help, and for all your kind words!
Steempeak is so easy to post to communities and then share it on your blog. It is literally a six step process once you're signed in, and very similar to using steemit.
Have you used steempeak to point where you're signed in and written a post?
The only reason I'm asking is that the old system where you tag a post with the name of the community will not work to actually post in a community anymore.
But, with a very small amount of learning, you can do it with these four steps:
It's not that hard, and once you get used to it that's all you really need to know.
Those are very helpful instructions. Even I can follow them, I think :)
Isn't it wonderful? Reminds me of the coffee shop in Greenwich Village years ago where I used to have French fries with a classmate. Congenial, and chock full of people with interesting things to say.
You're most welcome. it's story writers like yourself that have kept the spirit of fiction alive on steem.
It's my fondest hope that The Ink Well becomes a place for sharing, and mutual support for the creative writers on steem leading by example to draw those who've left back.
I truly believe that the fictioneers (I love that made up word 😉) and poets bring so much unique and interesting creativity to the steem blockchain, and I want to help boost these 'niches' into a place of prominence again.
It's great to have you in the community @agmoore
Now that you have a home, like all other creative minds, all you need to do is have an idea, and let yourself write! I'm really glad you like the initiative!
I'm never out of ideas. Realizing them...that's another matter :) I'll be sure to support other members of the community.
I love this idea. And it's much needed! A place for all creative writers to go, especially we poets. (we? us? which is correct?)
THANK YOU.
Hi @owasco
Yeah, this community idea is something I've wanted to do for a long time... but I had to wait for Steemit.Inc to role out their communities features.
Lol, I've been waiting over a year... but The Ink Well is finally here 😂
Lol, I'm not sure... off the top of my head I think both 'us poets' or 'we poets' are fine. Maybe we poets is a more inclusive use of the preposition.
Awesome to have you in the community 🙂👍
I’m intrigued and will resteem to take a closer look & hopefully, help in some small way to get word out.
I will admit that I don’t fully understand what communities are all about and am somewhat intimidated by Steemspeak —- hope I find time/energy to teach this ‘ole dog new tricks :)
Welcome Yahia
It's great to see that you made it my friend.
I understand this sentiment, and I was the same with steempeak, but after a few days using it and acquainting myself about two weeks ago it's now all I use. It's also the most intuitive platform for interacting with communities.
I might write a guide for how to use communities for those who aren't hugely technically minded. the key would be to keep it super simple in a step by step format.
Anyway, thanks for checking out The Ink Well :)
Will be consulting your how-to notes in the comment section, when I’ve time & energy to post (& feel free to nudge me on Twitter if there a contest or something you’d like to notify me of).
Cheers & thanks for keeping love of literature alive, here 😊
Finally an actual community for writers- like, there's bannanafish, but they're contest-only. It's not the same.
I'm excited. Hopefully you guys will still be around by the time I get out of my writer block, even so, great iniciative!
I hope we're gonna be going full power for a long time @airiam
I feel for you with the writers' block. I suffered 6 years of it soon after I finished university and it was bad. Creative expression through writing is such a big part of me that I never realized just how much it closed me off during that period.
Anyway, I'm sending creative vibes your way in the hopes they'll blow those writers' block blues away.
If you subscribe to The Ink Well we will be posting prompts and competitions at some point soon that might fire that inspiration up again.
Anyway, we're here whenever the block lifts and you get that urge to write poetry or fiction again 🙂👍
This is wonderful! I've been waiting for a Fiction/Poetry community to spring up. :)
Hi @kaelci
Yeah, this community idea is something I've wanted to do for a long time... but I had to wait for Steemit.Inc to role out their communities features.
Lol, I've been waiting over a year... but The Ink Well is finally here 😂
Awesome to have you in the community 🙂👍
We are very excited, and happy to have our idea supported from the start! We would love to hear from you in our community! Welcome. :)
thanks for creating it, this is fantastic
This is something I've wanted to do for a long time... But had to wait for Steemit.Inc to role it their communities features. Lol, I've been waiting over a year, but The Ink Well is finally here 😂
Awesome to have you in the community @poemsofasickmind 🙂👍
Yes, I am glad to see this feature and steemit is prospering, i hope it has a bright future with all these good additions.
I added one of poems, hope everyone likes it.
Couldn't think of anyone better to do this. 500 SP delegated. I used to love the good contests here... looking forward to their return..
Wow, thanks so much for the delegation @riverflows. That is an amazing and very generous gift to the ink well community!
Ha ha, I'll have to get my thinking cap on then and formulate something challenging yet fun for a poetry comp.
I'll let you know when it drops 😉👍
Thanks for the delegation, we hope this will be a place for all creatives and dreamers! And that our community will become a place of quality prose and poetry. :)Welcome.
Haha, I'm in!! :0)
Awesome! :)
See ya down the well dude. Ermmm... that sounds wrong!
Lol. It does a bit!!!
I have subscribed and want to cross post something (not mine), but The Ink Well (great name BTW) is not showing up in my communities. Is there a lag, or is there something else I need to do?
Hi @owasco
Welcome to the community, so great to have you here :-)
The Ink Well should show up in your communities once you subscribe. I think that it is worth signing out and signing back in again if you're having issues. Sometimes that works.