Welcome to The Ink Well!

Now that you're here, please have a look around and get to know our community. Here are a few tips for getting acquainted:

• We do not accept AI generated or AI edited posts.
• Be sure to read The Ink Well community rules at the top of the community home page, and check out our FAQ about The Ink Well.
• We accept two kinds of short stories in The Ink Well: fictional stories and creative nonfiction stories. We are all about quality, and we expect writers to carefully review their work before posting. Not doing so will result in low curation rewards or posts being ignored. You can see our article on checking your posts for grammar here.
• You can find some great articles on story writing in our catalog of storytelling tips.
• You can find information about what we are looking for in creative nonfiction stories in this post.

And please be sure to engage in the community by reading and commenting on the work of other community members. Also, including ditties ("You better watch out....") is not recommended. The emojis posted throughout the piece are distracting and don't enhance your writing. We ask everyone who posts in The Ink Well to read and comment on at least two other stories for each one published.

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Thank you.

Again, welcome!