• Writing Prompts

    Your prompt word this week is DISH I remember my nan using this word to describe a film star she thought was very good-looking. ‘He’s a dish, isn’t he?’ she said. But aside from referring to someone who is handsome, we use the word in lots of other ways – a satellite dish, something to…

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  • Today I’m thrilled to be over on John W. Howell‘s blog for stop number seven of the Myths and Magic blog tour. I’d be delighted if you would hop over there and say hi. John has written many gripping novels, including his Eternal Road series. I thoroughly recommend them. I instantly fell in love with…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    My funny this week comes from Murray Clarke. I love this.

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  • You have two weeks to work on your limericks this time as I’ll be away next week. So I’m giving you two choices. You can work on one of the words or both. Your words are PRINCE CLEAN Last week’s prompt was FLOOR. You wrote some brilliant limericks: Annette Rochelle Aben: Hello Individuality You knock on…

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  • Today I’m over on Janice Johnson‘s blog, Jammie’s Jottings, for stop six of the Myths and Magic blog tour. If you’d like to take a look, I’d love to see you there: Janice has just retired and is looking forward to having a lot more time for writing. Happy retirement, Janice!

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    If you’d like to be included in this slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great. All I ask is that there’s nothing offensive. I have a returning guest this week. Susan Batten is…

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  • Here’s your Thursday story challenge. Can you tell a story in 57 words using the following words in it somewhere: The previous challenge was to write a story in 28 words using the following three words in it somewhere: Here are your entertaining stories: Crystal: As I play Scrabble with a homeless guy who is…

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  • The latest stop on my Myths and Magic tour is a little different: Lynn Chapman quizzed me on all sorts of aspects of writing as well as my book. If you’d like to have a read, please pop over. Lynn has a really interesting and inspiring blog called Creative Captures (love the name). Do have…

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  • Writing Prompts

    Your new prompt word is CAPTURE My choice of word came today when I thought about a TV series here in the UK called The Capture. It centres around deepfakes. So ‘capture’ can have negative connotations. We might think of it in terms of someone or something being captured. But we can also look at…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    I think I’ll give walking in these a miss. I don’t think it would end well… Photo credit: Esther Chilton

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