Esther Chilton

  • Funny Of The Week

    I’m so glad they added the extra description…

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  • Bite Size Writing Tips

    Choosing a setting for your story: The setting in a fiction story can help to shape the mood of the story. A story set in an abandoned warehouse immediately evokes a sense of eeriness and isolation, of neglect and dreariness. Make sure you choose a setting which suits the type of story you’re writing. Different…

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    This week’s Guest Writer is the very talented Robbie Cheadle. As you’ll see from her biography, she’s a very versatile writer: Robbie, short for Roberta, is an author with six published children’s picture books in the Sir Chocolate books series for children aged 2 to 9 years old (co-authored with her son, Michael Cheadle), one…

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  • It’s five-word challenge time again! For this week’s challenge, can you tell a story in five words, using the word Clock in it somewhere? Last week, your story needed to contain the word Switch. You sent in some interesting and entertaining stories. Here they are: Sanandi-jacq: Switch off politics. Peace returns. Emergency! Find power switch.…

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  • It’s A Bargain!

    A huge thank you to those of you who have read my current book of short stories – A Walk in the Woods. The paperback will be coming out soon – I promise! Some of you may not know that I wrote another book of short stories – The Siege – some years ago, under…

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  • Markets For Writers

    A big thank you to my writing friend, Hugh Roberts, who sent me details for this week’s Market For Writers. The Storgy Flash Fiction Competition is now open for entries. Here are some details for you: 1st Prize: £100 + STORGY Gift Bundle 2nd Prize: STORGY Gift Bundle 3rd Prize: STORGY Gift Bundle Entry fee: £5 Word limit:…

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  • Funny Of The Week

    What a difference a letter can make…

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  • Here’s part seven in my writing dialogue series. Here are parts one, two, three, four, five and six. Now for part seven: Use dialogue to break up big blocks of narrative text. It aids readability, as well as injecting pace into the story. ***

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    Please welcome Laura Sansom to my Guest Writer Spot for the first time. She’s written a great story for us. Before you read her story, you might like to know a little bit about her: Laura is an aspiring writer whose projects has, and will continue to include poetry, article/ content writing, flash fiction and…

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  • It’s five-word challenge time again! For this week’s challenge, can you tell a story in five words, using the word Switch in it somewhere? Last week, your story needed to contain the word Sulk. You sent in some interesting and entertaining stories. Here they are: Sanandi-jacq: Lacking bulk hulk in sulk. Ritu: No sweets allowed…

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